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Parties are entitled to stipulate regarding facts

Feb 7, 2011 By: Westlaw Insider

Parties are entitled to stipulate regarding facts, but they cannot make stipulations as to what the law is; that is for the

Today in 1999: Unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo killed

Feb 4, 2011 By: Katie Sheehan

Following the shooting of an unarmed African immigrant, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ordered a study of 175,000 records of the Street Crimes Unit’s “stop and frisk” practice.

vitriolic replies to remarks attributed to plaintiff were not libelous per se.

Feb 4, 2011 By: Westlaw Insider

Where vitriolic replies to remarks attributed to plaintiff were directed to plaintiff as potential political foe and not as an accountant, words

Hot Doc: City of Summerside sues promoter Katrina Sussmeier

Feb 3, 2011 By: Katie Sheehan

A planned Michael Jackson tribute concert never came to fruition, and a small Prince Edward Island city demands the promoter refund $1.3 million.

Rule 11′s admonition that every lawyer do necessary work to find law before filing brief

Feb 3, 2011 By: Westlaw Insider

Rule 11′s admonition that every lawyer do necessary work to find law before filing brief applies even to lawyers who have two

Westlaw tip: Sometimes less news is good news

Feb 2, 2011 By: West Reference Attorneys

Use the “Limit Your Search using SmartTerms” in many news databases to limit your results by checking boxes for Industry, Company, Subject or Location.

There is no heckler’s veto.

Feb 2, 2011 By: Westlaw Insider

In order to preserve order when unpopular speech disrupts it, the police may not silence the rabble-rousing speaker, but must permit the

Westlaw Jury Verdict of the Week: Oracle Claims Illegal Downloads Infringed Copyrights

Feb 1, 2011 By: Jury Verdicts

Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG (U.S.D.C., N.D. Cal.) Oracle Awarded $1.3 Billion for Copyright Infringement 2010 WL 5064389 Verdict Summary 2009 WL 2700098 Plaintiff’s Fourth Amended Complaint

The Perilous Second Semester, Part 1

Feb 1, 2011 By: Mike Kraus

Editor’s Note:  Please welcome our newest guest blogger, Professor Andrew J. McClurg, who writes about the dangers of the second semester of

Police officers who were found to have used excessive force against each other in altercation at scene of arrest, allowed civil liberties.

Feb 1, 2011 By: Westlaw Insider

Police officers who were found to have used excessive force against each other in altercation at scene of arrest, during which both

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