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News States brief ~ Indiana high court hears arguments on  "implied consent" abortion law
States brief ~ Indiana high court hears arguments on "implied consent" abortion law
Rachel Felton
June 21, 2005 05:27:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on whether abortion clinics should be allowed to pursue their challenge to the state's abortion "implied consent" law , which requires women seeking an...

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News States brief ~ NJ high court orders assessment of financial privacy protections
States brief ~ NJ high court orders assessment of financial privacy protections
Rachel Felton
June 20, 2005 05:13:00 pm

Leading Monday's states brief, the Supreme Court of New Jersey ordered its criminal practice committee to assess whether financial records should be given more protection as a matter of public policy. In upholding the conviction of a...

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News States brief ~ Iowa Supreme Court refuses to address ruling that dissolved civil union
States brief ~ Iowa Supreme Court refuses to address ruling that dissolved civil union
Rachel Felton
June 17, 2005 04:58:00 pm

Leading Friday's states brief, the Iowa Supreme Court today refused to address the ruling of a lower court that dissolved a Vermont civil union . The Supreme Court did not judge the merits of the legal claim...

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News States brief ~ GA high court warns about jury instructions on eyewitness evidence
States brief ~ GA high court warns about jury instructions on eyewitness evidence
Rachel Felton
June 16, 2005 05:20:00 pm

Leading Thursday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Georgia has warned criminal trial judges to be careful in the way they instruct juries about weighing the value of eyewitness identification. In a decision today, the Court said...

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News States brief ~ CT Supreme Court orders town to release aerial photos, maps to public
States brief ~ CT Supreme Court orders town to release aerial photos, maps to public
Rachel Felton
June 15, 2005 03:30:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's states brief, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled today that the town of Greenwich must release its computer database of aerial photographs and maps to the public. The Supreme Court rejected the town's argument that the...

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News States brief ~ Ohio high court to decide grandparent visitation rights
States brief ~ Ohio high court to decide grandparent visitation rights
Rachel Felton
June 14, 2005 03:11:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard arguments today in a case concerning the visitation rights of grandparents. Since the 2002 US Supreme Court decsion in Troxel v. Granville Ohio courts have issued conflicting...

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News States brief ~ Eighth Circuit to reconsider MO fee on disabled parking permits
States brief ~ Eighth Circuit to reconsider MO fee on disabled parking permits
Rachel Felton
June 13, 2005 06:23:00 pm

Leading Monday's states brief, the United States Supreme Court today ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider whether the state of Missouri can charge the disabled $2 for portable disabled parking placards. The placards allow disabled persons to park...

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News States brief ~ Florida judge dismisses school districts’ funding suit
States brief ~ Florida judge dismisses school districts’ funding suit
Rachel Felton
June 10, 2005 05:52:00 pm

In Friday's report on law in the states, Circuit Judge P. Kevin Davey of Florida's 11th Judicial District today dismissed a lawsuit filed by five of Florida's larger school boards over changes in the way the state's...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Congress approves first Patent Act

On April 10, 1790, Congress approved the US's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the US Patent Board, the precursor to the modern US Patent Office. Read the current US Patent Law from the Cornell University Law School.

Hugo Grotius born

Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, statesman and father of international law was born in Delft, Holland, on April 10, 1583. His best-known work is De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), which he published in 1625.

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