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HARRIS v. CARTER

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Habeas Corpus
A habeas petitioner was presumptively denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when the state trial court failed to inquire as to whether trial...

PALMER v. PIONEER INN ASSOCS., LTD.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
A Title VII plaintiff presented sufficient direct evidence of discrimination to defeat summary judgment, and sanctions against plaintiff's attorney...

HALE v. COMM. ON CHARACTER & FITNESS FOR THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
A challenge by a public advocate of white supremacy, to the state of Illinois's decision not to admit him to the bar, has been fully adjudicated and...

ILLINOIS EDUC. ASS'N v. ILLINOIS STATE BD. OF EDUC.

Administrative Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
The attorney-client exemption set forth in section 7(1)(n) of the Freedom of Information Act may apply to material submitted by a public body...

JALALI v. ROOT

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice
Where plaintiff did not prove any damages under the logical implications of her own theory, airing her employer's dirty laundry in an open trial for...

IN RE CELINE R.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law
The juvenile court may reject adoption under the Welf. & Inst. Code section 366.26 sibling relationship provision only if it finds adoption would...

IN THE INTEREST OF M.S., E.S., D.S., S.S., & N.S.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law
In appeals from termination of parental rights, 1) admission of prior orders without redacting a judge's fact-findings was harmless error, 2)...

IN RE STATE BAR OF TEXAS

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
By vacating a suspension order, the district court not only abused its discretion by interfering with the Board of Disciplinary Appeals's jurisdiction...

IN THE INTEREST OF B.L.D. & B.R.D.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law
In deciding whether a conflict of interest exists between parents opposing termination in a single lawsuit, the trial court must determine whether...

ZAMOS v. STROUD

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiffs met their burden to demonstrate a reasonable probability that their malicious prosecution claim would succeed against an attorney defendant...