85 ABA Journal Vermont articles.
The slaying of a Vermont social worker earlier this year, along with three relatives of a suspect accused of shooting all four victims to death over a child-custody dispute, has…
Nov 6, 2015 5:00 PM CST
A defendant in a Vermont drug case has been charged with raping a female acquaintance in a women’s restroom at the Burlington criminal courthouse last week.
However, authorities did not…
Oct 23, 2015 9:00 AM CDT
A divorcing husband who claimed his wife’s law firm ran up its legal bills with excessive discovery and unreasonable legal claims won’t be able to pursue his lawsuit alleging fraud…
Oct 21, 2015 5:45 AM CDT
Denied access Aug. 7 to a jailed woman suspected of killing a state social worker and three relatives after losing a child-custody case, the Vermont defender general’s office swung…
Aug 17, 2015 4:35 PM CDT
As snow began falling Monday in what is forecast as a potential record-breaking blizzard in the Northeast, court officials joined those in charge of schools and other government offices in…
Jan 26, 2015 4:50 PM CST
A Vermont man banned from school board meetings for two years after he criticized the school district has agreed to a $147,500 settlement.
The settlement followed a September ruling by…
Jan 6, 2015 9:35 AM CST
Vermont Law School is getting a $759,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which provides funds to study legal issues related to agriculture.
The grant will fund a three-year…
Sep 24, 2014 5:25 PM CDT
Called to a home for a welfare check in Amherst, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, police discovered the bodies of a Vermont law student and his mother.
Police say the student,…
Sep 18, 2014 7:04 AM CDT
June 12 was not a good day for Vermont lawyer Peter Martin.
Pulled over on a curve by a St. Albans police officer for having tinted windows on his Cadillac…
Jun 26, 2014 5:25 PM CDT
Four major manufacturing associations are seeking to invalidate Vermont’s law requiring manufacturers to disclose on labels when their products have genetically modified organisms.
The Burlington Free Press reported that…
Jun 13, 2014 7:46 PM CDT
Asking would-be lawyers standard questions about their mental health, including their history of diagnosis and treatment, could violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the civil rights division of…
Feb 12, 2014 9:30 PM CST
Kentucky doesn’t allow same-sex marriages or civil unions, or recognize those that occur in other states.
But even if it did, that wouldn’t mean that a woman who prosecutors say…
Sep 23, 2013 11:15 PM CDT
Vermont jurors took only 40 minutes last Friday to acquit a woman of aggravated assault, a charge that even the prosecutor didn’t agree with.
Deputy Chittenden County State’s Attorney Paul…
Sep 20, 2013 11:10 AM CDT
Once upon a time, a clothesline was a standard feature of most back yards. But concern that publicly airing clean laundry attached with clothespins to a rope or wire was…
Aug 14, 2013 8:24 PM CDT
Liberty University School of Law has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force its insurance carrier to defend the institution in an earlier civil racketeering case over a child-custody battle…
Jun 19, 2013 9:30 PM CDT
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