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Court Refuses Teen’s Plea to Forego Chemo
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The highest state court in Connecticut held that a 17-year-old girl cannot refuse chemotherapy to treat a cancer that her doctors determined would otherwise kill her in two years time. So reports NBC New York.
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Squatters Occupy Luxury Maryland Home
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A convicted con artist and his family allegedly moved into a $1 million, custom-built home in Bethesda, MD., and did considerable damage to it. The home’s rightful owners showed up and called the police, who forced the family to vacate the property. So reports ABC News.
Read more...Some Law Schools Still Not Hurting for Applications
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Law school applications may be scarcer than they’ve been in years, but—at Georgetown, the University of Virginia, and George Washington University—the applicant pool is still pretty crowded. So reports U.S. News & World Report.
Read more...Pharmacists Indicted for Murder in Meningitis Outbreak Deaths
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The owner and supervising pharmacist at the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy that supplied the tainted injections that caused the 2012 meningitis outbreak have been charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of 26 people. So reports ABC News.
Read more...Supreme Court Finally Goes Digital
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As early as 2016, all U.S. Supreme Court filings—from petitions to motion responses to merit briefs—will be accessible for free on the Court’s website. So reports The New York Times.
Read more...Ex-Doughnut Plant Manager Sues Store For Discrimination Over Pregnancy
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A former personnel manager of two New York City Doughnut Plant stores has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against the company for demoting her and ultimately firing her after she told the company’s owners that she was pregnant. So reports DNA Info.
Read more...Ex-Doughnut Plant Manager Sues Store For Discrimination Over Pregnancy
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A former personnel manager of two New York City Doughnut Plant stores has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against the company for demoting her and ultimately firing her after she told the company’s owners that she was pregnant. So reports DNA Info.
Read more...Couple Convicted of Murder After Forcing Child to Drink Too Much Liquid as Punishment
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A Tennessee couple has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated child neglect in connection with the death of a child who died after being forced to drink large amounts of liquid as a form of punishment. So reports the New York Post.
Read more...Garner, Brown Decisions Prompt Law School to Allow Grief-Stricken Students to Postpone Exams
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Columbia Law School allowed its students to request exam-time postponements based on their anguish over the grand jury decisions not to indict police in the Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y. So reports The New York Daily News.
Read more...Hedge Fund Managers’ Insider Trading Convictions Vacated
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A federal appeals court threw out the convictions of two hedge fund managers who were found guilty of trading on tips passed through a network of analysts. So reports the New York Post.
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