Headlines • Court Upholds Voter-Approved Affirmative Action Ban • Judge Sides With Kansas Law in Student's Dismissal • Which Law Schools Are Tops for Jobs? • Spurious Arguments Won't Advance Case for Marriage Equality • In-House Counsel Profile: Cantel Medical Corp.'s Eric Nodiff • Banning the Box: Tread Lightly When Conducting Background Checks • Regulators Approve New Standard for Children's Carriers • Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses $1.7M Silica Verdict • MOVERS • Law Firms Eye Business Boon If Aereo Wins in High Court The U.S. Supreme Court, delivering its second major blow in less than a year to civil rights organizations, on Tuesday upheld Michigan's voter-approved ban on the use of race preferences in admissions at the state's public universities. Read More » The University of Kansas School of Law did not violate the due-process rights of a first-year student it expelled for failure to disclose numerous criminal convictions, a federal judge has ruled. Read More » The best and worst schools, as ranked by the percentage of 2013 graduates who, nine months after graduation, have found full-time, long-term jobs that require bar passage — the gold standard for new legal jobs — according to the American Bar Association. Read More » Highlighting opponents' religious motivations is misguided and unpersuasive. Read More » Contracts (distribution agreements, supply agreements, service agreements) make up 65 percent of the legal work, general counsel Eric Nodiff said, with mergers and acquisitions accounting for 15 percent and employment, securities filings, intellectual property, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and litigation comprising the rest. Read More » The trend toward prison and criminal sentencing reform has implications for employers, as states and local governments begin to restrict the use of criminal background checks in hiring. Read More » The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted, 3-0, to approve a new federal standard for soft infant and toddler carriers. Read More » The Mississippi Supreme Court has reversed a wrongful death verdict of $1.7 million in a silica case. The court concluded the plaintiffs had not shown sufficient evidence of Mississippi Valley Silica Co. Inc.'s liability. Read More » New hires and lateral moves in this week's column. Read More » Television broadcasters say a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of the streaming Internet TV service Aereo could puncture their businesses and “threaten the very fundamentals of broadcast television,” causing them to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in subscriber fees. Read More » | 
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