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All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/newswire/nlj_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp A former law student has won a bid in bankruptcy court to discharge nearly $340,000 in education debt because her diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome rendered her unable to repay the loans. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555456097&rss=nlj Some six months after the Montana Supreme Court upheld a 100-year-old state law limiting independent expenditures by corporations on behalf of political candidates or committees, a federal judge has barred enforcement of related state campaign restrictions. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555509801&rss=nlj According to a new law school project released May 21, exonerations in the United States since 1989 have topped 2,000 – and, as one of the registry's editors put it, those merely represent "the tip of an iceberg." http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555386241&rss=nlj A Massachusetts federal judge upheld a $152,500 back pay award in an employment discrimination case against a Boy Scout chapter and awarded $70,175 in attorney's fees, but ordered a new trial on a $300,000 punitive damages award. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555461734&rss=nlj It was the term's battle of the dictionaries, and it ended with a rare flash of humor from a justice on the bench. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555439453&rss=nlj In a case at the intersection of law and modern reproductive technology, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that state inheritance laws will determine whether children conceived after their fathers' death are eligible for Social Security survivors benefits. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555444343&rss=nlj Once seen as the bank best able to make the public case against some of the more controversial parts of the Dodd-Frank Act, JPMorgan and its outspoken gray-haired chief, Jamie Dimon, now find themselves at the bottom of a dog pile of regulatory and Capitol Hill investigations only Washington can produce. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555091555&rss=nlj Plaintiffs attorneys filed nearly 70 lawsuits, primarily against Carrier IQ, asserting that the company's tracking software violates the Federal Wiretap Act and additional privacy and consumer laws. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202555062601&rss=nlj It's pressure cooker time at the Supreme Court. 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