Headlines • Ninth Circuit Vindicates Publicity Rights of Hendrix Kin • Kansas Law Gets More Affordable for Some Neighbors • Federal Court Judge Backs Conn. Gun Control Laws • Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty in Boston Bombing Case • No Easy Answers for Challenges Facing Law Schools • Dissenters Lament Circuit Ruling on Sexual Conversion Therapy • Torts 101 — Damages for Those Who Might Get Sick Are Nonsensical • Innovations in Law Firm Technology • Nasdaq, Underwriters Challenge Ruling in Facebook IPO • Securities Filings Rise as Halliburton Challenge Looms A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of Washington's publicity rights law in a trademark dispute over the rights to singer and guitarist Jimi Hendrix's name and likeness. Read More » The new "KU Vantage Scholarship" will give students from 11 Missouri counties in the Kansas City region an annual scholarship to make up the difference between the $19,623 that Kansas residents pay and the $33,067 nonresident tuition. Read More » A federal judge has upheld gun control laws approved by the state legislature last year following the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. In a 47-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Alfred Covello stated on Thursday that the law is constitutional. Read More » Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon last year, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced on Thursday. Read More » "If I was asked four or five years ago whether legal education was going to be such a critically important topic for the legal profession, I would have come up with the wrong answer," ABA president James Silkenat said at a panel discussion at the NYSBA annual meeting. "But now [it] is of real and immediate importance." Read More » Three Ninth Circuit judges, including Diarmuid O'Scannlain, say the court should have weighed First Amendment implications of a state law banning therapy that tries to change a minor's sexual orientation. Read More » New York court's decision on medical monitoring follows a basic tenet of law. Read More » The past few years have been momentous for law firms and their use of technology. In the electronic discovery area alone, innovations including predictive coding have found acceptance by the courts. Read More » A federal judge is expected to hear motions next month filed by Nasdaq and the underwriters of Facebook Inc.?s botched initial public offering challenging his rulings allowing a raft of shareholder cases to proceed against them. Read More » You know something big is brewing in investor litigation when every study on last year's uptick in securities class action filings includes the caveat that the practice could come to a screeching halt in 2014. Read More » | 
