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Ex-con fights for prisoner rights and battles censorship

Prison Legal News persists—despite attempts to ban its circulation in prisons and jails—to fight for reform from the inside.



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Lawsuit against Dave & Buster's challenges reducing employee hours to avoid health insurance mandate



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New York considers 'textalyzer' bill to allow police to see if drivers were texting behind the wheel



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Who's the pirate? Lawyers join forces to fight allegedly bogus claims of pay-TV theft

Private lawyers pay armies of freelance investigators to go into establishments and document pay-per-view theft. For a small business, a lawsuit could be a death knell.



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What do falling bar-passage rates mean for legal education--and the future of the profession?

Erica Moeser, president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, says the cause of the current slump is “deceptively simple.” So simple, in fact, that she doesn’t know how anybody could think otherwise.



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Law prof and journalist team up to hold police accountable for their actions

Sitting in his office at the University of Chicago Law School just over a year ago, attorney and professor Craig Futterman was talking about a video almost no one had seen. It was a dashboard-camera recording of a white Chicago police officer killing a black teenager.



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Professor says data mining can improve jury selection



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New York program provides public defenders in deportation cases



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50-year story of the Miranda warning has the twists of a cop show

The 1966 decision in Miranda v. Arizona set the stage for a legal saga displaying the twists and turns of a cop show.



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Fines against unsafe nursing homes are considered a slap on the wrist

Nursing home regulatory systems are structured around administrative fines—fines that are reduced so routinely that they have become widely considered a cost of doing business rather than an incentive to provide quality care. Read this ABA Journal feature recently honored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors.



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