LawSites
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. ” Smith v.
The Crime Report
JULY 13, 2022
The owner later took Scott back to Missouri, a slave state. His case ended up before the Supreme Court, which issued a 7–2 decision against Scott. ” The Court held that black men and women, free or slaves, were not American citizens. Dred Scott was a slave, whose owner took him to Illinois where slavery was illegal.
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Attorney at Work
APRIL 4, 2022
The Model Rules and related comments make clear that a client has a right to terminate your relationship at any time. The Missouri Supreme Court emphasized this point in its landmark case In the Matter of Cupples. 99-414 for more details and suggestions on drafting the notice to clients. Again, see ABA Formal Op.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Nevertheless, lawyers do not work for free and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide that lawyers are entitled to earned compensation. The opinions interpreting the ethics rules clearly emphasize that a meeting of the minds at the onset of representation is essential. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Missouri , they will consider a vaccine mandate for health care workers at facilities that receive federal funding. The vaccine disputes came to the court last month on an emergency basis, a procedural posture in which the justices might have generally been inclined to dispose of them with a brief order without hearing argument.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 13, 2024
The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit seeking to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. Thursday’s ruling means that mifepristone will continue to remain widely available in the United States, where it is used in over 60% of abortions by health care providers.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
In a ruling on Dec. 19, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is ineligible to be president under Section 3, and it barred the Colorado secretary of state, Jena Griswold, from listing him on the primary ballot.
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