Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines November 12, 2008
By David Badertscher, PLL
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<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>NLJ.com, </em>November 12, 2008.</font></p>
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Firms look beyond sinking economy to 'greener' pastures </a></b></font><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"A handful of law firms have looked beyond the current economic downturn to take advantage of potential legal work involving the growth of California's alternative energy generation and new state toxic chemical regulation. California's expected "green rush" in legal business stems from two sources: the push to expand renewable power sources and the governor's signing of the Green Chemistry Initiative, on Sept. 29, creating a toxic chemicals database and giving the state new authority to regulate chemicals in consumer products." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 12, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202425956116" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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Report slams office that allocates resources to 94 U.S. attorneys </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"The federal office that oversees allocation of resources to the 94 U.S. attorney offices nationally has no objective process to determine staffing levels, uses unreliable data and is unable to reallocate jobs between districts, according to an audit report by the Office of Inspector General released on Tuesday. "</font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 12, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202425957748" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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Did Arizona chief judge ban terms like 'illegal alien?' It depends on whom you ask. </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Allegations by the conservative group Judicial Watch that the Arizona Supreme Court chief justice has 'banned' the use of terms such as 'illegal alien' and 'illegals' in court opinions has touched off a round of denials and denunciations on both sides. The dust-up began last week when Judicial Watch posted online a letter from the Arizona Hispanic Bar Association critical of 18 'inflammatory' words or phrases in opinions and court documents and asked that courts be discouraged from using them." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 12, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202425958160" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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DOJ loses international bid-rigging case </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"In a blow to the Justice Department's international bid-rigging cases in the marine hose industry, a federal jury in Florida acquitted two executives of an Italian-based manufacturer after two hours of deliberation in a four-week trial." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 12, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202425957659" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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U.S. court in Massachusetts approves rules in effort to attract more patent cases </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Boston attorneys hope the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts' new scheduling and procedural rule for patent infringement cases will attract more patent cases to the district. The court's judges unanimously adopted the rule, which stemmed from a Boston Patent Law Association proposal, at their scheduled monthly meeting on Nov. 4." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 12, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202425956199" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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A small army of attorneys file amicus briefs in Proposition 8 case </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Dozens of lawyers filed friend of the court briefs on Monday in support of a petition before the California Supreme Court seeking to overturn Proposition 8, a state constitutional ban on gay marriage that passed on Nov. 4 by a narrow vote. One of the recent briefs, filed by a team of lawyers at Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher on behalf of 44 state legislators, argues that Proposition 8 constitutes a change in the constitution that discriminates against a minority group
something that requires a two-thirds vote of the legislators, not a simple majority vote."</font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 12, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202425957467" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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Online college giant to pay $2M under consent decree in religious discrimination class action </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"The University of Phoenix, one of the nation's largest online and campus college programs, has agreed to a consent decree for nearly $2 million and other remedial relief in a religious discrimination class action brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that the University of Phoenix engaged in a widespread practice of discriminating against non-Mormon employees who worked as enrollment counselors in the university's online division." </font></font></p>
