Recent Updates
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What is Dental Malpractice?
Recent Cases 07/21/2021Dental malpractice occurs when the treatment provided by dental health care professionals falls below the acceptable standard of care causing serious personal injuries. Like other areas of professional malpractice, dental malpractice is a form of neg...
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New York Dental Malpractice Claims
Legal Marketing 07/19/2021The law firm of Jordan R. Pine & Associates is exclusively dedicated to representing clients in dental malpractice lawsuits in New York State. New York Dental Malpractice Attorney - We have been involved with over 1,000 dental malpractice cases a...
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Lawyer loses challenge to mandatory membership in group
Legal Events 07/16/2021A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a policy that requires lawyers join the State Bar of Michigan. Lucille Taylor said the group’s use of her dues for advocacy activities violates her right to free speech, among other objections...
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Nepal’s Supreme Court reinstates dissolved lower house
Legal Events 07/12/2021Nepal’s Supreme Court reinstated the House of Representatives on Monday and upheld the leader of the opposition’s claim to be the new prime minister. The 167-page court order removes Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, who had been running ...
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Michigan court won’t extend voting redistricting deadline
Legal Events 07/09/2021The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday denied a request to extend the deadline for drawing new legislative and congressional maps despite a delay in census redistricting data. The Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, whose members have been m...
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Court refuses appeal of ex-Cleveland cop who shot Tamir Rice
Legal Events 07/06/2021The Ohio Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it would not consider an appeal over the firing of a white police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice outside a Cleveland recreation center in 2014. The appeal was filed in April by the Cleve...
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Supreme Court won’t revive school’s transgender bathroom ban
Legal Events 06/28/2021The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Virginia school board’s appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban. Over two dissenting votes, the justices left in place lower court rulings that found the policy unconstitutional. The case involved...
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High court sides with ex-athletes in NCAA compensation case
Legal Events 06/21/2021The Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits — like computers and paid internships — that colleges offer to student athletes. The case doesn’t decide whethe...
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Iowa’s high court stops lawsuit over farm runoff pollution
Bar Associations 06/18/2021A sharply divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stopped a lawsuit aimed at reducing the flow of fertilizer and hog farm waste into the state’s river and streams, finding that limiting pollution from farms was a political matter and not one for t...
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Justices consider Harvard case on race in college admissions
Legal Marketing 06/14/2021With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions. The justices could say as soon as Monday whethe...
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Schumer recommending 2 voting rights lawyers to be judges
Legal Events 06/07/2021The Senate’s top Democrat is recommending President Joe Biden nominate two prominent voting rights attorneys to serve as judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on the federal bench in Manhattan. Sen. Chuck Schumer has recommended t...
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Appeals court upholds guilty verdicts in NCAA bribes case
National News 06/04/2021The convictions of a sports business manager and an amateur basketball coach in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. C...