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JURIST
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from North Carolina on Monday over the constitutionality of a state law allowing employers to sue employees working as undercover investigators. The court stated that the law substantially “burden[ed] newsgathering and publishing activities.”
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. New Developments in Law Firm Ownership. Australia and the United Kingdom already permit outside ownership of law firms. The post What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” He later apologized.
Conflict of Laws
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mitu Gulati, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Even at the time, it was uncertain whether Venezuelan law authorized the transaction. Sovereign Debt and Choice-of-Law Clauses.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
United States , the 1950 Supreme Court case holding that the United States is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries sustained by members of the armed forces while on active duty and resulting from the negligence of others in the armed forces. United States. The case involves the so-called Feres doctrine, after Feres v.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. and North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation v. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected that claim.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 10, 2022
A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While I am not a North Carolina lawyer, the state does not appear ideal for plaintiffs in this type of action and the facts of the case could present other difficulties. Disclaimer.
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