President Obama Lifted the Ban on Entry to U.S. for Those with H.I.V.
Administrator | October 31, 2009
Please watch the President’s speech below:
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- Pennies In Protest … Turn Hate Into Something PositiveThe LGBT community certainly has battled its share of hate. Anti-gay groups will protest at anything from a gay wedding to the funeral of a gay person. Matthew Shepard’s funeral sadly comes to mind. I still shudder at the thought. Matthew Shepard was the young man from Wyoming who was beaten and hung on a [...] […]
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- CT School Holidaysby Ryan McKeen Happy Labor Day! Labor Day marks the end of summer. And for many Connecticut students it means back to school. Here’s a little school law post for your holiday weekend. Connecticut General Statutes Section 1-4 is one of the more interesting statutes on the books. Check this out: When any such holiday, except holidays in January [...] […]
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- Is it OK to Use A Celebrity Spokesperson for Your Firm?Have You Recently Been Injured in An Accident? Do you have what it takes to be the number one law firm in your market? That is the question splashed across the webpages of Market Masters Legal, a Massachusetts company that can provide your law firm with a celebrity spokesperson. In legal trade journals, the company advertises custom made ads that are tout […]
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- UCONN Law Library Blog
- Free Bar Association Membership for Law StudentsThe Connecticut Bar Association is currently offering free membership for law students. Membership includes a discount on bar association seminars; subscriptions to the Connecticut Bar Journal and the Connecticut Lawyer magazine; and access to Casemaker, the bar associations legal research database. Membership also offers students an opportunity to connect […]
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- Tinker's Tenure in the School Setting: The Case for Applying O'Brien to Content-Neutral RegulationsIn the forty years since the landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the Supreme Court has narrowed the expansive vision of student-protected speech espoused in that case. Tinker held that school officials cannot restrict a student’s expression of opinion unless it will contribute to a disturbance in the educational e […]
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- Clason Series Kicks OffTuesday, August 24, at noon, we’ll kick off the Clason Speaker Series with Gabriel “Jack” Chin, the Chester H. Smith Professor of Law, Professor of Public Administration and Policy, and Co-Director, Program in Criminal Law and Policy at The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, who will speak on “Quasi-Crime and Quasi- […]
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- Crime: reality and perceptionRan across this interesting article in Prospect Magazine from the UK, on the shifting policing and perception of crime, violent and otherwise: The consequence has been that violent crime—defined as actions which cause injury or serious threats to do so—has fallen steadily for about the last 15 years. The official statistics do not show a […]
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- Connecticut Sports Law Blog
- The Colonial Column: Doug Flutie to Visit HartfordDoug Flutie will be in camp with the Hartford Colonials on Friday, September 3, from 3pm to 5pm at Sage Park in Berlin, in preparation for his role as a United Football League (UFL) analyst for Versus. Flutie, whose professional career began with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL), provides a unique perspective over the ups […]
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- Connecticut Employee Rights Blog
- BREAKING NEWS: 2d Circuit rules Rx Reps Get Overtime!In a decision sure to change the way that pharmaceutical industry pays their sales representatives, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court ruled today that sales representatives at Novartis are non-exempt employees and are entitled to be paid overtime. This blogger wrote about a case on April 1, 2009 in which Judge Janet [...] […]
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Man’s Defense Is That He Was Too Fat To Kill
Administrator | October 28, 2009
The Twinkie defense was clever enough … but I think the Too Fat to Kill defense has it beat.
Read the article by clicking on the link below:
Too fat to kill? Man uses weight as a defense
Suspect argues his physical shape prevented him from pulling the trigger
Legal Separation Versus Divorce
Administrator | October 26, 2009
There is a lot of confusion as to the difference between obtaining a legal separation and a divorce in Connecticut. Some people believe that merely choosing to live apart constitutes a legal separation. It does not. Others believe that the parties must file for legal separation if they are seeking to [...]
Blogger Accused Of Threatening Connecticut Legislators Is Free on Bail
Administrator | October 22, 2009
Do New Jersey blogger Harold “Hal” Turner’s posts threatening Connecticut legislators and opining that three federal judges in Illinois deserve to die constitute free speech as he asserts? Or should he be convicted of inciting violence against state lawmakers, for which he has been charged?
Read today’s Hartford Courant article on courant.com below:
Blogger [...]
Virginia Man Charged with Indecent Exposure for Being Naked in His Own Home
Administrator | October 21, 2009
Eric Williams awoke at 5:30 a.m. yesterday and went to make coffee in his kitchen. He was home alone, it was dark outside … and Williams just happened to be naked. A woman and her 7-year-old child cut through his front yard from a nearby bath and spied him (and his nakedness) through [...]
Louisiana Justice of the Peace Refuses to Issue Marriage License to Interracial Couple: Loving v. Virginia Revisited?
Administrator | October 19, 2009
In the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, the unanimous court decided that, “[u]nder our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.”
Apparently, Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell hasn’t been paying attention. Bardwell, who [...]
Child Support Guidelines
Administrator | October 18, 2009
Clients often question how child support orders are determined by the Courts. Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes sec. 46b-215a, the Commission for Child Support Guidelines publishes Child Support and Arrearage Guidelines (last updated August 1, 2005) which are used to determine the amount of child support the non-custodial parent must pay to the custodial [...]
Does the Book “In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood” Violate Gag Orders?
Administrator | October 12, 2009
A book about the 2007 murders of the Petit family (Cheshire, Connecticut) is accused killer Joshua Komisarjevsky’s account of what happened the night he and alleged co-conspirator, Steve Hayes, brutally murdered Jennifer Hawke Petit and her two children and injured Dr. William Petit, before setting their home on fire.
The case has not yet [...]
State Budget Cuts May Force Courthouse Closings
Administrator | October 8, 2009
The Governor’s veto of one of the bills approved by the legislature will cut the Judicial Branch budget by $7.8 million over the next two years, which may force the closing of at least three courthouses in Connecticut.
Read “Budget Cuts Likely Will Force Courthouse Closings“ for more information.
[Source: Connecticut Law [...]
