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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Phoebe Petrovic

  • January 19, 2015

This week in the law: Uber in trouble again, high school students taking immigration test, the CIA okays its agents, and same-sex on the docket.

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Phoebe Petrovic

  • January 12, 2015

This week in the law: Saks Fifth Avenue, free community college, Honda pays, and George Zimmerman … again.

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

  • December 1, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… Egypt is erupting with protests as charges against Hosni Mubarak, the country’s former president, were dropped. He appeared in the courtroom on a stretcher….

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in Law

by Life of the Law

  • October 5, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… The subprime loan crisis keeps getting worse. Used-auto dealerships are the focus of inquiry into whether they have been inflating buyers’ incomes in loans for…

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Legal Briefs: This Week In Law

by Life of the Law

  • July 7, 2014

Granada and Grenada make the news. A man and his wife are suing an airline for flying them to Spain, not the Caribbean. (ABC News) Somewhere, Nancy Grace is smiling. The next Casey Anthony-type case…

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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Life of the Law

  • July 1, 2014

The Supreme Court took the proverbial legal cake of the week by releasing two major decisions on Monday and another two last Thursday. First, in a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that many of the…

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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Life of the Law

  • June 23, 2014

Beauty, brawn, and brains: this guy definitely has the first two, and someone might argue all three after a wildly successful campaign for donations to pay for his bail for felony weapons charges. (Think Progress)…

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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Life of the Law

  • June 16, 2014

Your juice might not be juice, and the Supreme Court is worried. (Gawker) One Silicon Valley entrepreneur is fighting to retain his right to sip some juice on his beach in peace, away from public…

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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Life of the Law

  • June 9, 2014

Three inmates escaped from a jail in Quebec by a helicopter that landed inside the prison and swooped them away. Somewhere, a Hollywood producer is celebrating his next movie plot. (BBC News) Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl…

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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Life of the Law

  • June 2, 2014

Conversation with strangers (not studying hard in your Rules of Evidence course) is the key to being a great lawyer, says one guy. (Above the Law) Speaking of great lawyers, this man is going to…

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