Headlines • First Circuit Defers to Justices on Cellphone Searches • Prospective Law Students Favor Pro Bono Requirement • Key Acceleration Trial Against Toyota Opening This Week • City Defends Tobacco Coupon Ban Before First Circuit • Feds Can't Shield Bernanke in Hank Greenberg Suit • A Major Ruling under Indian Child Welfare Act • VOIR DIRE: Got It Bad • Workplace Not a Good Forum for Race Dialogue • Supreme Court Urged to Speed Up Financial Disclosures • Ropes & Gray to Conduct Internal Probe at GSK Hoping the U.S. Supreme Court would take up the matter, a federal appeals court in Massachusetts said it would not revisit a ruling that forces police to obtain a warrant to search data on the cellphone of a person who's under arrest. Read More » Well more than half the 750 pre-law students surveyed in June by Kaplan Test Prep—68 percent to be exact—said they support a rule requiring law students to complete a certain amount of pro bono work before being admitted to the bar. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Bloomberg BNA FREE REPORT: It's 9:00 a.m. Do You Know Where your Employees Are? The Legal Implications of Telecommuting.
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