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By SUSAN N. HERMAN, President, …
By JUSTIN R. LA MORT
President Obama was able to pay off his student loans only after authoring two bestselling books and becoming a prominent figure on the national political scene. This is not a strategy that can easily be replicated.
By CINDY COHN and KATHRYN HASHIMOTO
On February 18, 2010, Judge Denny Chin presided over the Google Books settlement fairness hearing. Under consideration was the proposed class action settlement agreement between defendant Google and the plaintiff authors and publishers who had challenged the company’s decision to scan millions of books from leading research libraries…
By IVANA DEYRUP
On June 25th of last year, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts… Justice Scalia indicated that the practical effects of the decision would be limited, writing, “[T]he sky will not fall.” However, some attorneys reached the opposite conclusion in the days immediately following the ruling…
By NICHOLAS J. JOHNSON
In McDonald v. City of Chicago, now before the Supreme Court, petitioners claim that Chicago’s decades-old handgun ban is a violation of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
by JUDGE JAMES S. GWIN
In 2007, a jury found Daniel Sheldon guilty of two child pornography offenses. Little about Sheldon was sympathetic. In his twenties and married, Sheldon spent long hours downloading and viewing pictures and videos showing minor girls, some prepubescent, engaging in sex with adults.
