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Abused, then accused

Source: Albany Times-Union

Just hours before police showed up at her door, she had fought with her ex-boyfriend, who had arrived to pick up Sa'yon, their 17-month-old daughter, at Nesmith's Albany apartment. But when Nesmith refused to part with Sa'yon, her ...
Full article at: Albany Times-Union  More like this  May 4 2013, 3:15pm CDT

Where were you when the internet went live?

Source: Legal Insurrection

Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute was there, one of just 25 active servers SunSite The sunsite repository being set up bu UNC Chapel Hill. (Experimental) Xerox PARC Private: Access from Xerox.com only. System33 document server. CIS Informa ...
Full article at: Legal Insurrection  More like this  May 3 2013, 8:22am CDT

ATL's Law School Ranking

Source: Conglomerate Blog: Business, Law, Economics & Society

1 Yale Law 2 Stanford Law 3 Harvard Law School 4 University of Chicago Law 5 University of Pennsylvania Law 6 Duke Law 7 University of Virginia Law 8 Columbia Law 9 University of California, Berkeley 10 Ne ...
Full article at: Conglomerate Blog: Business, Law, Economics & Society  More like this  May 1 2013, 2:32pm CDT

Mortgage-Seizure Plan Resurfaces As Investors Try To Kill It For Good

Source: Forbes Blogs

Later this week, securities-industry representatives will jet out to Nevada and California to try and tamp out a brushfire they thought they’d extinguished last year. In meetings with officials in North Las Vegas; Richmond, Calif. and possibly other fo ...
Full article at: Forbes Blogs  More like this  Apr 29 2013, 9:33am CDT

#winning

Source: Legal Insurrection

Just thought you’d be interested in some news about me. At a Cornell Law School faculty vote on Wednesday I was promoted to full Clinical Professor of Law. It’s not tenure, which is a Cornell University designation not available to clinical faculty, but ...
Full article at: Legal Insurrection  More like this  Apr 26 2013, 7:10am CDT

Appeals court lets stand overturned robbery conviction

Source: Thomson Reuters News & Insight

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday refused to review a ruling that upheld the overturning of a robbery conviction, despite dissent from three judges who said it contained gr ...
Full article at: Thomson Reuters News & Insight  More like this  Apr 24 2013, 2:17pm CDT

Free Speech Icon Mary Beth Tinker Launches Crowdsourcing Campaign to Fund Nationwide Civics Education Bus Trip to American High Schools, Colleges

Source: PRWeb

Mary Beth Tinker and her mother, Lorena Tinker, attending a Des Moines, Iowa, school board meeting in 1965. [Photo courtesy of Mary Beth Tinker] “Almost 50 years ago, I made a difference with just an armband. Can ...
Full article at: PRWeb  More like this  Apr 23 2013, 2:46am CDT

YOUNG v. CONWAY

Source: FindLaw: Cases and Codes

John H. Blume, Cornell Death Penalty Project, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York; Brian Shiffrin, Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin, LLP, Rochester, NY, for Petitioner–Appellee.Geoffrey Kaeuper, Assistant District ...
Full article at: FindLaw: Cases and Codes  More like this  Apr 23 2013, 12:00am CDT

President David Skorton Expresses Support for Immigration Reform

Source: Cornell Daily Sun

Universities such as Cornell should take interest in the national immigration reform debate given the major presence of international students on campus, President David Skorton said at a debate Friday. T ...
Full article at: Cornell Daily Sun  More like this  Apr 21 2013, 10:39pm CDT

Lynn Stout: A cheating scandal in Atlanta reveals the dark side of offering incentives

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal

Recently 35 public school teachers and administrators indicted on charges of cheating to raise test scores in an Atlanta school district began turning themselves in to authorities. They may be the tip of th ...
Full article at: Memphis Commercial Appeal  More like this  Apr 21 2013, 12:15am CDT



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