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The month of July has almost ended and the Bar Exam is just as much in flux now as it was back in April. For many applicants to the bar, the situation is changing on a daily basis. Just this past week the applicants to the Louisiana Bar were granted Emergency Diploma Privilege. Indiana was [...]

Fashion conglomerate Gap, Inc. sued nationwide shopping mall operator Simon Properties on Thursday in the Delaware Chancery Court in order to terminate leases due to closures caused by COVID-19. Gap and its affiliates, including Banana Republic, Athleta, Intermix, Janie and Jack, and Old Navy, sued the shopping mall operator with the hopes of retroactively terminating [...]

Author’s Note: During my tenure as the first Supreme Court Archivist-Legal Historian to the Supreme Court of Missouri, I authored an in-house history column. Reproduced below is my July Fourth column from 2013. On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote a letter to his wife Abigail. “My dear Friend,” , “he Second of July, 1776, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) actions in enforcing air quality standards across state lines were somewhat lacking. While the court determined that some of the EPA’s steps in evaluating air quality assessment requests under the Clean Air Act’s “Good Neighbor” provision [...]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed House Bill 360 on Friday, setting 18 as the minimum age to obtain a marriage license without parental consent. Pennsylvania becomes only the third state to limit child marriage following Delaware and New Jersey. Wolf explained that this bill “will help prevent child exploitation.” The bill says that a minor [...]

The Delaware Court of Chancery issued a ruling on Friday holding that the property tax system in all three Delaware counties is unconstitutional. In a suit filed two years ago, two plaintiffs, Delawareans for Educational Opportunity and the NAACP State Conference for Branches, claimed that public schools across the state failed to provide adequate education [...]

Amid the stay-at-home orders, the issue of child custody exchanges has emerged as a concern among separated families. Some parents have found co-parenting to be easier during the pandemic. Many other co-parents have not been so lucky. Families are looking for guidance on whether to follow custody orders during the pandemic. Co-parenting continues to be [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a Third Circuit court opinion, holding that the plain language of the safe-berth clause in the parties’ sub-charter agreement establishes a warranty of safety. In the final stretch of a tanker’s journey from Venezuela to New Jersey, an abandoned ship anchor punctured the tanker’s hull, causing 264,000 gallons [...]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued stay-at-home order for six counties on Monday in response to COVID-19. The order began Monday at 8 PM and will continue until April 6, 2020. The six counties affected are Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Monroe, Montgomery and Philadelphia. “To protect the public from the spread of … COVID-19[], it is [...]

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Delaware federal district court Tuesday. The bankruptcy filing comes after recent sexual abuse allegations against BSA members. In January Abused in Scouting, a group dedicated to seeking relief for sexual abuse victims previously in the Boy Scouts, filed a suit against the [...]