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Examination Order Violated Abuse Victim's Rights, Panel Says
A Family Court order that a teenage sexual abuse victim undergo a highly intrusive "forensic medical examination" violated her Fourth Amendment rights, a Brooklyn appellate court has ruled.
Bias in Custody Evaluations
Cognitive sets and assumptions, however formed, create a kind of lens through which data that is gathered on a family is processed and interpreted. And these biases create the very real potential for errors to be made at the stage where the court is being given an evaluator's "bottom line" about a particular child's needs or a certain parent's skills and capacities.
When Is an Order Not an Order?
In two reported cases addressing the enforceability of the "automatic orders," the results were seemingly contradictory as to the remedy for "violation" of these "orders.
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What Is Left of <i>Caveat Emptor</i>?
New York courts continue to hold that <i>caveat emptor</i> ' let the buyer beware ' represents the general rule applicable to real property transactions. Two recent appellate cases, however, illustrate continuing uncertainty about the remaining scope of the <i>caveat emptor</i> doctrine, while Real Property Law sections 462 and 465 limit the doctrine's significance in many residential transactions.
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How Employing e-Discovery Counsel Can Pay Dividends
e-Discovery issues are becoming increasingly more complex while associated review costs keep rising dramatically ' often threatening to overshadow the substantive issues of the litigation or investigation at hand. Because of this, more and more corporations are turning to a two-tiered model when it comes to new matters: one law firm (or separate group within the law firm) that will focus on preservation, collection and review; and a separate team of lawyers that will focus on the actual merits of the case.
Mobilize Your Legal Firm's Marketing Strategy with QR Codes
QR (quick response) codes are a hot trend in marketing. The compact squares with contrasting-color patterns are showing up everywhere, including print ads, packaging, business cards, signs, art ' even tombstones!
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