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California Bar Wants to Offer Exam Score Boosts, Payments to Sample Test Guinea Pigs

The state bar this week asked the California Supreme Court to approve a plan to offer incentives to those willing to try out sample bar exam questions written by Kaplan.
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The Recorder

San Mateo County Judge Disciplined for Denying Litigant's Testimony

Superior Court Judge Susan Greenberg was wrong on the law and violated judicial canons in a restraining order proceeding, the Commission on Judicial Performance said.
4 minute read

Law.com

Idaho Supreme Court Mulls Regional Standards of Care for Medical Negligence in Lawsuit Underlying Legal Mal Action

"If you're out in the trenches like me, and I've handled a lot of medical malpractice cases, I'm going to make certain that the expert and the doctor that is being sued are of the same training so that you can establish that they both have the same standard of care because that's where most of these cases break down," Gary L. Cooper, a partner at Cooper & Larsen, argued on behalf of the defendant attorney Monday.
4 minute read

Law.com

Athena Bitcoin, Genesis Coin Face Potential Class Action Over 'Epidemic' Elder Fraud

"We're taking a new legal problem and we're trying to find solutions for our client," said Marc E. Dann, an ex-state attorney general.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'Bewitched by the Technology': $300K to Settle Faulty Facial Recognition

Sexton likened the Woodbridge police department's handling of facial recognition to early users of GPS technology who drove off a cliff because the technology told them to. "It was like this magic thing. You're kind of bewitched by the technology," he said.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Business Groups Leverage California Ballot-Box Threats to Curb Plaintiffs' Power

Legislative deals to amend PAGA and California's lemon law were driven by interest groups who otherwise couldn't gain traction in California's Democratic-dominated Legislature.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'Sorry @GovMurphy': Attorney Says New Law Will Stifle Fee Shifting

New Jersey judges "have demonstrated that they value transparency, and we've gotten some just really amazing wins from them, especially the Supreme Court. But they also aren't policymakers, so they have to defer to the Legislature's policy decision," open-government advocate CJ Griffin said.
6 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Jurden Announces 2025 Retirement, Capping 24 Years on Superior Court

Superior Court President Judge Jan Jurden, who has sat on the court since May 2001, is the first woman ever to lead the court, a role she was appointed to at the beginning of 2015.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Immunities and Parentage Rights: What's on the Pa. Supreme Court's September Agenda

The 10 cases slated to go before the justices touch on issues including the scope of prosecutorial immunity, parentage of children conceived through assistive reproductive technology, and a transit system's claim to sovereign immunity.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Former Capitol Aide Accuses State Senator of Sexual Harassment

Chad Condit said state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil engaged in a sex-based quid pro quo. A lawyer for Alvarado-Gil said her former chief of staff's allegations are fabricated.
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