Paul L. Boley
Law Library
Lewis & Clark Law School

Law in the News

Archive for January, 2009

1/30/2009

Animal Rights vs. the First Amendment

Libraries Say New Safety Law Could Mean No More Books for Kids

Billable Hours Giving Ground at Law Firms
:: January’s Carnage: 1,487 Law Layoffs

Legal Systems Struggles With How to React to Police ‘Testilying’

School Can Expel Lesbian Students, Court Rules
:: Doe v. California Lutheran High School Assoc. (pdf)

Medical Marijuana Raid Raises Question: What’s Obama Policy?

Universal Music Appeals “First Sale” Doctrine Ruling
:: EFF Explains Why You Should Be Allowed To Sell Promo CDs

Judge Denies Request to keep Proposition 8 Donors Secret

Famed Trial Lawyer Enters Marvel’s Tangled Legal Web

Obama Stocks White House With Prominent Lawyers

Roberts, Obama, and the Myth of the ‘Split Verb’

Lawyers Warned to Be Wary of Client E-Mail Scams

Commission Rejects Plan to Drill Off California Coast

NY Appeals Court Affirms Jailing of State’s ‘Most Obnoxious Lawyer’

A Steppingstone for Law’s Best and Brightest

Art Law Gray Area: ‘Transformative’ or Just Plain Copying?

Law Firm Hits Back at ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Client in Court Filing

1/29/2009

Obama Signs Equal-Pay Legislation
:: Congress Overturns Court on Job Bias
:: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

Poker Aficionados Watching SC Texas Hold ‘Em Case

U.S. Can Continue Taliban Cook’s Detention, as “An Army Marches on its Stomach”
:: Al Bihani v. Obama (pdf)

Landmark Patent Case Heads to the Supreme Court

ACLU Tests Obama With Request for Secret Bush-Era Memos

Who Must Be ‘Learned in the Law’?

Will Padilla’s Case Be Heard?

Military Judge Refuses to Delay Detainee’s Trial

John You on Obama’s Rash Decision to Close Gitmo

Obama Ethics Question: New WH Lawyer’s Firm Sought Bailout

Elizabeth Cheney, Bush Legal Counsel

Fired Worker’s Suit Tests Florida’s Concealed-Gun Law

First of 8,000 Antitobacco Suits to Go to Trial in Florida

Four out of Four Law Profs Agree: High Court’s Reverse Discrimination Case Is ‘Quite Unusual”

Abortion Rights Go Global – and Prompt a Backlash