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June 27, 2002 |

9th Circuit Tosses Out the Pledge of Allegiance

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down a morning ritual for countless schoolchildren -- the recitation of the pledge of allegiance. A divided three-judge panel held that the words "one nation under God" violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, making the court the first to sustain a constitutional challenge to public invocations of God that had, until now, been ruled merely ceremonial.
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October 23, 2012 |

An Unneeded Hearsay Amendment

A proposed amendment to the Federal Rules of Evidence would significantly expand the admissibility of prior consistent statements as substantive evidence, and the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure should give notice to the legal community of its potential impact.
4 minute read
May 16, 2012 |

Undermining Judicial Power

President Barack Obama recently made a sloppy statement about judicial power. In response, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sent a disturbing message about judicial decorum.
4 minute read
April 26, 2010 |

VerdictSearch

Builder not to blame for contractor's fall from ladder, jury finds. Jury awards $1 million in infringement case involving wound-closing device. Jury sides with surgeon who left sponge in patient's leg. Judge awards $42,356 to woman who tripped in military base parking lot.
4 minute read
May 31, 2011 |

How romantic, what's the deal?

Young female lawyers seem to be following the trend of taking their husbands' surnames. What's with the retro stuff?
3 minute read
Arab Bank Can't Undo Sanctions in Terror Funding Case
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Despite the efforts of Mayer Brown's Stephen Shapiro, Amman, Jordan-based Arab Bank plc failed last week to reverse what it has called a "disastrous" ruling in its billion-dollar court battle with victims of terrorist attacks and their families.

May 23, 2011 |

How to Scale the Mountain of Law School Debt

Many law school graduates face the daunting task of paying off their student loans, writes Ufot Umana Jr. As someone who paid off undergraduate loans and currently is paying off law school loans, he offers some advice. He says the first step in paying off student loans is to know what money comes in and control what goes out. This means creating a budget.
4 minute read
December 13, 1999 |

Advice for the Debt-Impaired

In law, the road to financial prosperity is hardly free or easy. For most new attorneys, graduating from law school not only starts their career, but also their responsibility to pay back significant debt.
6 minute read
December 20, 1999 |

Battling a Bureacracy Run Amok

Nearly 45 years after it was begun, the impetus for the Security Risk Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia seems to have come from an unusual source. The committee was established in January 1955 to provide legal and investigative help to federal employees who had been branded disloyal or security risks. It was the brainchild not of some firebrand defense lawyer but of the U.S. Navy's general counsel.
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