Chemerinsky: SCOTUS weighs whether freedom of speech applies to students off campus using social media
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Florida Supreme Court weighs rule generally requiring judges to grant parental-leave continuances
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Justice Thomas weighs in on ‘dismemberment abortions’ and the undue burden standard
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Judge weighs contempt after paper publishes redacted information about alleged school shooter
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Bridgeport council weighs moratorium on sewer bill collections
Frustrated City Council members have proposed a six month moratorium blocking City Hall's controversial efforts to collect late sewer use fees through property foreclosures. “You wanna hold us up, we'll hold you up!” Councilman Marcus Brown told two municipal lawyers Tuesday during a tension-filled ordinance committee meeting, which Brown co-chaired. Foreclosure News
Is Christmas tree in public park a secular symbol? ABA Legal Fact Check weighs in
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ABA committee weighs adding gender identity, ethnicity to law school accreditation diversity rules
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Should bystanders have a legal duty to intervene? Holocaust scholar weighs in (podcast)
If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? ABA Journal Daily News
Ninth Circuit Weighs In: Nevada ‘Superpriority’ Law for HOA Liens Violates Due Process
In October 2014, we blogged about cases from Nevada and D.C. giving priority of so-called HOA “superliens” over first position mortgages. In a 2-1 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overruled the 2014 decision from the Nevada Supreme Court about which that, as a matter of lien priority, the foreclosure […]
The Ninth Circuit Weighs In: NRS 116 is Facially Unconstitutional
The tide may finally be turning in Nevada. Since the Nevada Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to the whole of the financial services industry in September 2014 by holding that an HOA could foreclose on its super-priority lien and thereby extinguish a first deed of trust, first lien holders have been battling to protect […]