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These Are The Glaring Scientific Inaccuracies In CSI
More than 30 million people watched CSI and its spinoffs during the 2010-2011 season. And while the show is entertaining to be sure, is it in any way real? That answer, according to the experts, is a...
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Fashion Publicist Admits To Killing Financial Adviser's Daughter
A fashion publicist pleaded guilty to murdering his 23-year-old girlfriend in their Lower East Side apartment, The New York Daily News reported Monday. Raul Barrera, 34, told authorities he stabbed...
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Omnicom Discrimination Lawsuit Reads Like A Gossip Column
Sports media veteran Ray Katz filed a $3 million lawsuit against Omnicom alleging wrongful termination and discrimination, and it's quite the page-turner. It features allegations of fraud,...
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American Express Lawyer Allegedly Skewered A Rival In A Barroom Brawl
A man who has made a career in Biglaw is facing legal troubles of his own after he alleged slashed a man with a broken champagne flute. Bryan Brooks, 36, was spending the night at the Thom Bar at the...
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Maybelline Sued As Women Claim Its Lipstick Doesn't Really Last 14 Hours
A group of women, including one named Santa, is suing makeup giant Maybelline for advertising that its lipstick lasts longer than it actually does. The women, who are seeking class-action status, claim...
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Future Law Student Had No Clue What She Was Walking Into Until She Talked To...
Yahoo! News handed out some invaluable advice to a politics-hopeful considering law school. Kaitlyn, 22, graduated from the University of Oregon and majored in political science. She dreams of working...
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Egyptian Journalist Arrested For Defacing Anti-Muslim Poster In New York Subway
Mona Eltahawy, the prominent Egyptian-American writer and activist, has been arrested in New York after spraying paint over a controversial poster on the subway that has been condemned for equating...
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A Group Funded By The Billionaire Koch Brothers Is Trying To Get Back At The...
A conservative group bankrolled by billionaires Charles and David Koch began running an online ad on Tuesday, attacking the Florida Supreme Court for refusing to invalidate the Affordable Care Act,...
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BigLaw Summer Associates Might Be Freaking Out Over Their Careers For No Reason
The American Lawyer's summer associate survey found anxiety over their controversial decision to become lawyers reached a four-year high. But those highly paid law students might have been freaked out...
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New York Daily News Accused Of Potraying An Innocent Man As A Scamming Dentist
A man who claims he was defamed when the New York Daily News used his picture to illustrate a story about a scheming dentist is suing the popular newspaper, Courthouse News Service reported Tuesday....
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US Drone Strikes In Pakistan Are Based On A Monthly Unanswered Fax
The U.S. government says it has tacit consent to carry out drone strikes in Pakistan despite the Pakistani government not acknowledging planned bombings, the Wall Street Journal reports. U.S....
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Couple Sues Anti-Gay Group For Using Their Engagement Photo In This Ad
Tom Privitere and Brian Edwards' engagement photos in front of the Brooklyn Bridge were supposed to mark a happy moment in their lives. But that memory was spoiled in early 2012, when the couple found...
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UC Davis Students Win $1 Million Settlement For Being Pepper-Sprayed
Administrators at the University of California have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million to end a lawsuit brought by UC Davis students who were pepper sprayed by police at protest last November, the...
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What Does It Mean That An SAC Capital Manager Is An 'Unindicted...
The Street is buzzing today about the news that a fund manager from SAC Capital has been named as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the sweeping insider trading probe by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet...
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Scott Brown Says Elizabeth Warren Has A Secret Roster Of Corporate Clients
U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was pilloried by right-wing bloggers Monday for practicing law in Massachusetts without a license there. Now, her opponent, Republican Senator Scott Brown, is...
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America's Most Notorious Sheriff Got Smacked Down In Court
Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, best known for his fights with undocumented immigrants, received quite a blow Tuesday from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The federal appeals court ruled Arpaio can't...
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Clarence Thomas Hires Plenty Of Clerks From Fancy Schools While He Trashes...
Clarence Thomas made headlines this week when he trashed law school rankings and blogs that called his clerks "third-tier trash." But plenty of his clerks went to fancy schools. A Google search, which...
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We Found One Lawyer Who Would 'Sacrifice' To Make Law School Cheaper
This week Dealbook looks at what, if anything, can be to done to fix the high cost of legal education in this country. It asks if it's smarter to pay law professors less and/or replace them with...
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UBS 'Rogue Trader' Did Not Act Alone, Lawyers Says
LONDON (Reuters) - Kweku Adoboli, a "rogue trader" accused of bringing UBS to the brink of collapse, learnt his behavior from colleagues at the Swiss bank who later "stabbed him in the back", his...
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New Zealand's Prime Minister Apologizes To Kim Dotcom
In a statement made today, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has apologized to Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. The apology came after a government report (pdf) found that the Government Communications...
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