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		<title>Theft at 30,000 feet may go unpunished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A passenger on a commercial flight from Arizona to Florida allegedly stole $500 from another passenger’s purse. Now it appears that the alleged thief’s arrest in Florida will come to naught because of a problem with jurisdiction.
The lucky criminal defendant, Stacy Sanders, took a commercial flight from Phoenix, Arizona to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on June [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/02/08/theft-at-30000-feet-may-go-unpunished/</link>
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		<title>Employer escapes liability for ‘lactation discrimination’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Texas mom claimed that she lost her job because of her plans to pump breast milk at work. A Texas judge decided Thursday that federal law does not prohibit “lactation discrimination.”
The Texas mom, Donnicia Venters, began working as an account representative for Houston Funding II in March 2006. Houston Funding is a financial institution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/02/07/employer-escapes-liability-for-%e2%80%98lactation-discrimination%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>9th Circuit: Toyota lawyer must pay $2.6M</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 9th Circuit on Friday upheld a $2.6 million arbitration award against a former Toyota in-house lawyer who gained notoriety by claiming that the car company hid evidence in hundreds of rollover cases.
The California lawyer-turned-whistleblower, Dimitrios Biller, had argued that Toyota’s deception in product liability litigation justified his disclosure of confidential information obtained during his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/02/06/9th-circuit-toyota-lawyer-must-pay-2-6m/</link>
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		<title>Facebook photos doom workers’ comp claim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to convince a judge that you suffer from chronic, debilitating pain, it’s probably not a good idea to have pictures of yourself carousing with your pals plastered all over the Internet.
That’s a lesson Zackery Clement should have learned before he requested an extension of temporary total-disability benefits by the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission.
Let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/02/03/facebook-photos-doom-workers%e2%80%99-comp-claim/</link>
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		<title>Employee faces liability for ‘theft’ of Twitter followers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Monday gave the green light to a South Carolina employer’s lawsuit against a former employee who allegedly stole 17,000 Twitter followers from the company. 
The lawsuit was brought by PhoneDog, a South Carolina company that operates a popular website that reports on and reviews mobile phone products and services.
Noah Kravitz worked for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/02/02/employee-faces-liability-for-%e2%80%98theft%e2%80%99-of-twitter-followers/</link>
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		<title>Girl hoopsters have right to ‘primetime’ scheduling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 7th Circuit yesterday issued a ground-breaking decision on Title IX equal treatment claims, reviving a lawsuit against 14 Indiana school districts that allegedly kept their girls’ basketball teams from having a fair share of games on Friday and Saturday nights. 
“Non-primetime games result in a loss of audience, conflict with homework, and foster feelings of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/02/01/girl-hoopsters-have-right-to-%e2%80%98primetime%e2%80%99-scheduling/</link>
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		<title>Palin hacker&#8217;s SOX conviction upheld</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the Sarbanes-Oxley Act isn’t just for snagging corporate crooks. It also provided a handy tool for sending to prison a college student who hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account during the 2008 Presidential election. 
Yesterday, the 6th Circuit upheld the constitutionality of a lesser-known provision of Sarbanes-Oxley that makes it a crime to destroy records [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/01/31/palin-hackers-sox-conviction-upheld/</link>
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		<title>Student expelled over religious objections to homosexuality can sue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s always amusing when the high priests of tolerance get caught dishing out their own brand of intolerance.
Friday, the 6th Circuit taught several college professors the simple lesson that “tolerance is a two-way street” in the case of a graduate student who was expelled after she expressed religious objections to affirming homosexual behavior.
The expelled student is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/01/30/student-expelled-over-religious-objections-to-homosexuality-can-sue/</link>
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		<title>Law firm fumbles away malpractice coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Colorado law firm’s sad tale reemphasizes why it’s important to strictly observe the notice requirements of a professional liability insurance policy.
The hard lesson was handed down Tuesday by a federal judge in Davis &#38; Associates v. Westchester Fire Insurance.
Davis &#38; Associates (now Davis Schilken, PC) was retained in February 2004 by Ella Mae Bates. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/01/27/law-firm-fumbles-away-malpractice-coverage/</link>
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		<title>Calif. court revives ‘warm gas’ suit against Chevron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liquid expands as the temperature increases. That simple law of physics is at the heart of a consumer class action that alleges Chevron is cheating California consumers by selling motor fuel at an average temperature of 70 degrees.
Yesterday, a state appeals court revived much of the lawsuit after Chevron had succeeded in having it dismissed.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawyersusaonline.com/benchmarks/2012/01/26/calif-court-revives-%e2%80%98warm-gas%e2%80%99-suit-against-chevron/</link>
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