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Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted an anti-employment discrimination statute in a pro-employee way. On Tuesday the Court did it again, in Staub v. Proctor — a case involving alleged bias by supervisors against an employee.

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Supreme Court Sides with Employees, Again originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:30:00.

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Vaccine makers such as Pfizer are breathing easier now that the Supreme Court has ruled they can’t be sued for defective vaccine designs. The majority opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia was unequivocal: Congress has barred lawsuits over the rare but unavoidable side effects of vital vaccines.

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Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits Against Vaccine Makers originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:11:00.

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Two foreclosure middlemen, LPS Default Solutions and Prommis Solutions, are accused of illegally paying non-attorneys to practice law so banks and law firms could save on document filing costs. It’s more than a money issue — the errors these rushed non-attorneys are making may lead to another messy stage of the mortgage meltdown.

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Are Foreclosure Attorneys Illegally Outsourcing Legal Work to Non-Lawyers? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:30:00.

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Among the state systems governing foreclosure, Hawaii has a particularly fraud-riddled, draconian process. Elderly Suzanne Bonds was unbelievably exploited by that process in 2004, but Hawaii’s courts refused to help. Now, her attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

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Foreclosures in Paradise: Will the Supreme Court Review Hawaii’s Flawed System? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:00:00.

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Note to people who have been murdered, raped, beaten, or robbed by your country’s army, with the assistance of a corporation such as transporting the attacking troops, feeding them, paying them, and giving them access to corporate property as a staging ground: You cannot sue the corporation in U.S. courts.

Continue reading Legal Briefing: Corporations Get Away With Murder, Overseas

Legal Briefing: Corporations Get Away With Murder, Overseas originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:56:00.

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