Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis released from jail
Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis released from jail From Newsmax Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, walked out of jail on Tuesday after the U.S. district court judge who found her in contempt said…
Right to marry includes right to choose spouse: In prison, same sex or not
By Marcia Coyle, From The National Law Journal Seventh Circuit points to landmark same-sex marriage ruling in a decision about a former corrections employee who wants to marry a prisoner. The right to marry includes the right to select one’s…
Autopsy shows St. Louis teen was shot in the back by police
By Megan Specia From Mashable A preliminary autopsy of an 18-year-old black man shot dead by St. Louis police earlier this week shows he was shot in the back. Mansur Ball-Bey’s death Wednesday ignited outrage in a community scarred by…
Contempt hearing postponed, same-sex families will get to amend birth, death certificates
By Miriam Rozen, From Texas Lawyer Texas officials have complied with a federal court order and amended the death certificate of a man who was married to another man to identify the surviving spouse. The state officials have also pledged…
Bring back standards for women’s reproductive health
By Joycelyn Elders, M.D. From Caribbean Life As Americans, we strive for safety — the safest medicines, cars and toys. But when it comes to women’s reproductive health, state legislatures have passed about 250 laws since 2011 that put women’s…
Invoking ‘Alice,’ Lawyers for LinkedIn, Facebook Knock Out Database Patent
By Scott Graham, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — For inventor Thomas Bascom, the handwriting was on the wall. In big, screaming letters. Between a difficult reexamination before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a Supreme Court decision that…
More conflict than resolution
From The National Law Journal 2014 has been a year of disruption and division, public protests and congressional sparring, notable deaths and departures, and an insistent warning light of more conflict ahead. Discord culminated in the wake of a federal…
Publication of senate torture report won’t end litigation
By Zoe Tillman, From Legal Times, The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released hundreds of pages of previously classified documents providing new details on the scope of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. The full study, at more than 6,700…
[US] High Court weighs online speech protections
By Tony Mauro, From Supreme Court Brief In their latest foray into new media, several U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared ready to consider angry Facebook rants as a form of expression that should be protected by the First…
Royal Caribbean can be held liable for passenger’s death: 11th Cir.
By Mark Wilson, Esq. From FindLaw It’s well established that there’s no respondeat superior liability levied on ship owners for the negligent medical care of the ship’s crew, no matter how negligent they are. But what about an agency theory?…
