432 ABA Journal Connecticut articles.
Jun 14, 2019 7:30 AM CDT
Connecticut is expected to become the first state to collect statewide criminal case data from prosecutors broken down by the defendants’ race, sex, ethnicity, age and ZIP code.
In votes…
Jun 14, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
A Connecticut judge who founded the nation’s second full-time community court died Sunday in his Hartford home at age 76.
Judge Raymond Norko died as a result of cancer, the…
May 15, 2019 2:17 PM CDT
A 73-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to escaping from federal custody where she was serving a 15-year sentence for sending poisoned baked goods to every justice on the U.S. Supreme…
May 7, 2019 9:05 AM CDT
A Connecticut man freed from state prison in 2006 might have to give up his freedom after an audit found that he was not turned over to serve a 16-month…
Mar 29, 2019 12:37 PM CDT
The maker of the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle can be sued over alleged marketing practices that violate the state’s unfair trade practices law, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled in a…
Mar 15, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
So, you’re retiring from the bench—now what? Some judges might have a difficult time with this transition, including experiencing depression and other maladies. The emotional aspect of this transition has been ignored and problematic for many.
Mar 14, 2019 6:00 AM CDT
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by three female students against Yale University and its nine off-campus fraternities alleges that policies allowing only male fraternity members amount to gender discrimination.
The three…
Feb 13, 2019 12:18 PM CST
The families of shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, are entitled to see business and marketing documents of a radio show perpetrating a theory that the…
Jan 14, 2019 11:47 AM CST
An NAACP official says a Connecticut lawyer’s Facebook post is racist and disgusting. The lawyer, on the other hand, says it was intended to test Facebook’s screening policies, which he…
Jan 9, 2019 11:08 AM CST
A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday certified a proposed class action from tens of thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans who say they were discharged for reasons related to…
Nov 19, 2018 10:48 AM CST
Nov 19, 2018 9:23 AM CST
A man arrested in Connecticut on Friday wasn’t afraid to use the court system, although he was accused of abducting his toddler son in 1987 and living under an assumed…
Oct 29, 2018 11:47 AM CDT
Many see the case of Teresa Buchanan at Louisiana State University as emblematic of the precarious state of academic freedom for college and university professors. Others view the case as an example of the perils of applying a categorical rule to limit professorial speech.
Oct 1, 2018 1:40 AM CDT
Following recent articles from the Huffington Post and the Guardian reporting that Yale law professors Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld told women seeking clerkships with U.S. Supreme Court…
Sep 24, 2018 12:01 PM CDT
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