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Rosa Parks' Lawyer Recalls 'Eye Of Storm'
On his way home from Washington where he had attended the commemoration of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray—one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first lawyers—reminded an Atlanta audience Thursday that the movement's often overlooked attorneys ended legal segregation in the South.
Consent to Federal Removal Must Be in Writing
When removing a multidefendant case to federal court, all defendants must formally join in the removal petition and cannot simply inform the court in one petition that all defendants have "consented" to the removal, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled. Citing a "meeting of the minds" requirement as well as diversity prerequisites, U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody wrote that "one defendant may not speak for another in filing a notice of removal."Pa. Judge Backs 'Factual Cause' Instruction in Negligence Case
Juries hearing tort cases should be asked to weigh whether a defendant's negligence was a "factual cause" of the plaintiff's injury, not whether it was a "substantial factor," a Philadelphia judge has written in an opinion supporting recent changes in the state's jury instructions. "Jury confusion from the word 'substantial' has been documented in appellate decisions," Judge Mark I. Bernstein wrote. "Pennsylvania is not alone in moving toward a more realistic factual cause formulation."
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Investing in America Through E-2 and EB-5 Visa Categories
Angelo A. Paparelli, Stephen Yale-Loehr and Ted J. Chiappari outline two strategies ? the E-2 "Treaty Investor" visa1 and the EB-5 "Employment Creation" green card ? that foreign investors may pursue to obtain a variety of privileges in the United States.Big ideas and even bigger sales
If Jim Cramer, the button-mashing circus barker of the financial world, had his way, preschoolers would be tuning in to his money-management show. In ''Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life'' $26, which is just out, Cramer suggests buying your tyke Hasbro, Disney and Gymboree stock: ''I would buy one share of these the moment your child is born.Law Tech: LexisNexis debuts e-book software for law libraries
Legal professionals, who previously could only buy Lexis' 1,100 e-books individually, now have a Digital Library product that gives customizable software to check out titles and establish lending policies.Rabbi's startup rewards moms for watching ads, playing games
When Tiffany Ivanovsky isn't taking care of her seven children or working as a director of a Christian preschool in The Woodlands, Texas, she's writing about shopping deals for parents on her blog, MyLitter.com. While unearthing bargains for her 300,000-plus monthly readers, Ivanovsky, 36, clips coupons for her own family, too, using a rewards site called Swagbucks.Feds Say Pot Raids not About Supreme Court's Club Ruling
On Wednesday word of pot raids spread quickly and prompted plenty of speculation about whether the feds were starting to crack down in light of Gonzales v. Raich.TRENDING STORIES
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