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ABA Abroad

Advocating for human rights for workers around the world is part of the ABA’s mission

Attorney General

AG Garland announces limits on federal monitors overseeing police department consent decrees

Entertainment & Sports Law

Sports gamblers tried their luck with courts long before betting became legal

Tort Law

Suppliers of unwashed poppy seeds face suits over overdose deaths and injuries

U.S. Supreme Court

Should federal officers get immunity for lies and beatings? SCOTUS is asked to decide

Mind Your Business

For immigration law, a perfect storm creates challenges and opportunities for firms

Privacy Law

Cops’ use of pole camera to surveil partly fenced property was unconstitutional, state supreme court rules

Legal History

DOJ relies on ruling against Eugene Debs in seeking to block Texas abortion law

Health Law

Will employer vaccine mandate survive? OSHA would act under little-used statutory provision

Career & Practice

Do lawyers make simple things difficult?

Trials & Litigation

Day Pitney lawyers for gunmaker seek report cards, disciplinary records of slain Sandy Hook children

Judiciary

Judge accused of eating evidence apparently kills himself before FBI agents enter home for arrest

U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Barrett wants to dispel notion that Supreme Court is made up of ‘partisan hacks’

Judiciary

Federal judge fights to clear his name after he’s ordered to take a psychiatric exam

Legal Education

At some law schools, why are those who teach called ‘instructor’ rather than ‘professor’?

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: ABA president remembers 9/11; female judges in Afghanistan live in fear

Law Firms

Jenner & Block settles with landlord in dispute over rent payments during pandemic

Constitutional Law

7th Circuit refuses to block Indiana abortion restrictions

Criminal Justice

Law school clinic wins reversal of 1993 conviction based on prosecutor’s remarks about ‘trickster lovers’

Report from Governmental Affairs

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