89 ABA Journal Vermont articles.
Hundreds of Vermont DUI convictions are being challenged by defense lawyers, who claim there was a mistake in the breath analysis machine’s software setup.
Whistler-blowers’ complaints about unethical lab work…
May 16, 2011 3:58 PM CDT
New techniques developed for CT scans of a 2,700-year-old mummy are now being used to help determine the cause of death for young children.
Dr. Jason Johnson, a radiology resident,…
Apr 27, 2011 11:00 AM CDT
A Vermont Law School student has sued the institution, an official there and another law student over the handling of a sexual assault and sexual harassment complaint in which he…
Feb 8, 2011 8:18 PM CST
A Vermont lawyer who reportedly is a former traffic court judge caused an accident in September 2007 by braking abruptly after passing two bikers. Then he blamed the crash on…
Jan 3, 2011 8:26 PM CST
The top lawyer for the Vermont Public Service Department is being criticized for copying long passages from utility company documents for her own filing with the Public Service Board.
More…
Jul 14, 2010 3:53 PM CDT
A federal judge in New Hampshire has given the green light to a lawsuit accusing New Jersey’s Drew University of stealing a competing college’s graduate-level poetry program and many of…
Oct 26, 2009 6:39 PM CDT
Some 50 individuals briefly pummeled each other with pillows in a staged—and videotaped—event in Burlington, Vt., on Friday.
But only 21-year-old Darin Cassler has been criminally charged over the incident,…
Apr 21, 2009 5:31 PM CDT
The Georgia peanut plant linked to an outbreak of salmonella sold its products despite a dozen internal tests over the last two years that indicated contamination with the disease, according…
Jan 28, 2009 12:09 PM CST
A former family court judge in Vermont has been suspended from law practice for three months as a result of a pot bust at her home.
Officials found more than…
Dec 10, 2008 4:28 PM CST
Vermont Law School Professor Michael Mello, a well-known national expert on the death penalty, died at his home over the weekend after a short illness. He was 51.
“He was…
Nov 25, 2008 5:07 PM CST
Can food served to prisoners be so bad that it’s unconstitutional?
That is the question in a series of lawsuits filed in various states over “Nutraloaf,” a blended food intentionally…
Jun 25, 2008 6:22 PM CDT
A Justice Department legal opinion says federal law does not bar the Social Security Administration from paying benefits to the nonbiological child of a woman who entered into a civil…
Jun 18, 2008 1:01 PM CDT
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that state courts must enforce a child custody order issued by a Vermont court in the dissolution of a same-sex civil union.
The ruling…
Jun 9, 2008 11:30 AM CDT
A student at Vermont Law School and his Cuban wife have sued the U.S. government over restrictions that bar Cuban Americans from traveling home more than once every three years.
…Jun 3, 2008 2:22 PM CDT
For animal rights lawyers, the holy grail is a court decision that would allow them to sue in the name of animals.
They were hopeful a few years ago when…
May 6, 2008 3:24 PM CDT
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