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Bar Exam

Technical problems again plague remote bar examinees, who blame software provider

Bankruptcy Law

Bipartisan bill would make it easier to discharge federal student loans in bankruptcy after waiting period

Constitutional Law

Ban on topless women doesn’t violate equal protection clause, 4th Circuit says; concurrence questions precedent

Annual Meeting

Meet the 2021 Margaret Brent Award honorees

Careers

After his last firm dissolved, lawyer reinvents himself as conservative civil liberties warrior

Trials & Litigation

Federal magistrate judge sanctions lawyers for election suit that was ‘one enormous conspiracy theory’

Law Schools

This law school had the widest gap between student debt and graduate earnings

Immigration Law

ACLU intends to pursue suit after Biden administration continues expelling those arriving illegally

Annual Meeting

ABA Hybrid Annual Meeting convenes members online and in Chicago

Criminal Justice

New Jersey man gets prison time for posting federal judge’s home address on Twitter and Facebook

Labor & Employment

Investigators conclude Cuomo sexually harassed women; ‘the typical rules did not apply,’ says one employee

Constitutional Law

7th Circuit sees no constitutional problem with Indiana University’s COVID-19 vaccine requirements

Public Health

Cases challenging expired COVID-19 church restrictions fail in Supreme Court and 8th Circuit

Verdicts & Settlements

Zoom agrees to $85M settlement in litigation over privacy and ‘Zoombombings’

Trials & Litigation

Federal appeals court upholds Judicial Watch’s $2.3M judgment against its founder

Cybersecurity

Hackers accessed at least 80% of email accounts in New York federal prosecutors’ offices, DOJ says

Law Firms

These BigLaw firms plan to mandate vaccines; 2 will deactivate building IDs for noncompliance

U.S. Supreme Court

Chemerinsky: The SCOTUS sleeper cases of the October 2020 term

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Fewer than half of Americans approve of SCOTUS; ex-judge denies raping secretary

Attorney General

Treasury must provide Congress with Trump’s tax returns, Justice Department says in legal opinion

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