Justia Blawg Search - Law Blogs, Lawyer Blogs, Legal Blogs Directory & Search Engine

UK: High Court Suggests That a Retrospective Success Fee in a Retrospective Conditional Fee Agreement May Not be Contrary to Public Policy

29 Jan 2009, 4:49 am

Birmingham City Council v Rose Forde [2009] EWHC 12 (QB) concerned an appeal arising from the judgment of a Costs Judge regarding two conditional fee agreements used to fund litigation between Birmingham City Council (the Council) and Rose Forde, a Council tenant.Miss Forde entered a conditional fee agreement with McGrath Solicitors in relation to proceedings against the Council for failure to repair her property (CFA1). [read post]

InsureReinsure.Com: The Insurance & Reinsurance Blog - http://www.insurereinsure.com/

Another N.Y. Appellate Department Endorses Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages

22 Jan 2009, 3:04 pm

" He also pointed out that although the Court of Appeals had ruled in 2006 in Hernandez v. [read post]

Leonard Link - http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/

Legislature's enactment of a statute directing the State Comptroller to audit charter schools Constitutional

20 Jan 2009, 4:15 am

., Inc. v DiNapoli, 2009 NY Slip Op 00158, Decided on January 15, 2009, Appellate Division, Third DepartmentThe New York Charter Schools Association, objecting to being audited by the State Comptroller, filed an Article 78 petition seeking a declaratory judgment that legislation Article V, Â§1 of the State Constitution to the extent that it authorized such auditing charter schools.The primary issue in this appeal is whether legislation directing respondent Comptroller… [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - http://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Health Club Hazards: Working Out Your Aggressions

19 Jan 2009, 3:15 pm by Mark A. Eskenazi

Supreme Court, New York County: Sugarman v. [read post]

New York Injury Attorney Blog - http://www.newyorkinjuryattorneyblog.com/

Case o' The Week: Judge Graber Urges a "Liberal" Reading in a Criminal Case, Awad and Sufficiency of the Indictment

17 Jan 2009, 10:52 pm

United States v. [read post]

Ninth Circuit Blog - http://circuit9.blogspot.com/

CAAF holds that TC's propensity argument was improper but didn't create plain error

15 Jan 2009, 4:21 pm

CAAF released its opinion in United States v. [read post]