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The Bear

by Kalila Holt

• June 30, 2015

When I first meet Frank Abramovitz, he’s wearing a leather Harley Davidson hat and jeans that are a little too short. He has bright blue eyes and a gold hoop in his ear. He’s 75…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

• December 15, 2014

This week in legal briefs: life-without-parole changes, CIA interrogations, and porn protests. We bring you the major legal events from the past week and tell you about all the interesting things to come!

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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 the Law

by Life of the Law

• November 17, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… Bill Cosby is best know for entertaining audiences with his unique brand of humor, but some women are trying to change that. He’s dodged accusations of…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in Law

by Life of the Law

• November 10, 2014

This week we take a look at what’s coming down the Supreme Court’s pipeline. Will the Court strike down a major provision of Obama care? Also featured: the N.F.L., a follow-up to the Ray Rice controversy, and a nine billion dollar secret.

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

• October 27, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… A nurse returning from West Africa after treating Ebola patients is going to court over the quarantine rules she faced after returning. She claims…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

• October 20, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… Last spring, Newsweek ran a story on an elderly recluse who allegedly founded Bitcoin, the online payment system. After the story was published, the man­—Dorian…

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Smart Stuff: What Nonmonogamous Relationship Activists Can Learn from Same-Sex Marriage Success

by Hadar Aviram

• October 15, 2014

On October 6, the Supreme Court denied review, without comment, of all seven petitions addressing state court decisions to overturn same-sex marriage bans. The practical implication of these decisions is that same-sex marriage will become…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening In the Law?

by Simone Seiver

• September 22, 2014

Looking ahead… Barry Bonds, the disgraced baseball star of doping scandal fame, was convicted in 2011 of obstruction of justice for offering incomplete answers in his testimony before a grand jury. But the conviction may soon be…

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If Hobby Lobby Wants to Deny Insurance Coverage of Birth Control It Should Stop Selling Knitting Needles, Too

by Lynn M. Paltrow

• March 25, 2014

Hobby Lobby is the Oklahoma-based chain of craft stores that is challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA), claiming that the health-care reform law violates the corporation’s free exercise of religion by requiring it to provide…