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House to hold third hearing on CFPB discrimination

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/14

The House Financial Services Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will be holding a hearing tomorrow entitled “Allegations of Discrimination and Retaliation within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Part Three.” We have...

Want to run for political office? Don’t work as a public defender first

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/14

Fifty-five U.S. senators list legal backgrounds on their resumes, making it the most popular profession in the Senate. And law is the third most popular profession among U.S. representatives, 156 of whom list legal backgrounds.

First Circuit Rejects Equitable Tolling In Class Action Arising Out Of Plant Closing

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/14

A luggage plant in France closes in 2007, so a class action suit for French post-termination benefits is brought against a former investor in Massachusetts in late 2011? Former Justice Souter joins the majority in the First Circuit? It’s a long...

May A Director Resign By Telling Another Director “I Quit”?

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/14

Suppose in a fit of pique, a director telephones a fellow director and announces that she is quitting the board. Has the director resigned? California Corporations Code Section 305(d) provides......

Prison official faints during execution; sentence was upheld despite jurors’ gag gifts, drug secrecy

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/14

The execution of a Georgia inmate went off without a hitch on Tuesday, although a prison official fainted during the procedure.

Nearly 70 World War II veterans still serve their country—on the federal bench

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/14

The GI Bill helped several World War II veterans pay for a college education, including service members who went on to become lawyers and then federal judges.

Stress may be killing law students’ brain cells, law prof says

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/14

Law students take note: Rats that spend time on a running wheel generate twice the new brain cells as those that are sedentary.

Bullet went through federal judge’s chambers into jury room, prompting security review

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/06/14

It doesn't appear that anyone intentionally targeted a Bay Area federal judge. But a bullet went through the second-floor Oakland chambers of U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White and into the wall of a jury room there, prompting a security review, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Storied prosecutor retiring at 85

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/06/14

Sally Weintraub was in her fifties when she began working for then-Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno.

Not Everyone Can Run Elon Musk’s Playbook

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/06/14

If anything, Musk’s letter actually underscores the need for a cohesive patent strategy at the outset, when large competitors can easily copy your efforts....
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