85 ABA Journal Vermont articles.
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.
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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
The Vermont Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today on whether serving inmates a concoction known as nutraloaf is punishment meriting a formal hearing.
The mixture, served on a…
Mar 24, 2008 1:31 PM CDT
A number of pedestrians in Greeley, Colo., were stunned yesterday to be handed documents requiring them to report immediately for jury duty as they were out and about, attending to…
Jan 18, 2008 12:17 AM CST
Accustomed to civil unions allowing same-sex couples to form legally recognized partnerships, Vermont residents are now reportedly taking in stride a plan to put same-sex marriage on the legislative table.
…Jan 15, 2008 1:14 AM CST
A Vermont judge ordered the sheriff and his deputies to go out and round up some jurors yesterday after a jury pool shrunk to only 20 people.
Judge Harold Eaton…
Jan 11, 2008 5:56 PM CST
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