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Monday, July 5, 2010

“Lawyering Suits Pile Up at High Court; During 2009-2010 term, some 20 percent of the decision docket involved cases on lawyering”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

Posted at 4:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“She blinded me with science”: The Associated Press has an article headlined “Ga. top court finds teacher not liable for injury” that begins, “The Georgia Supreme Court says a Forsyth County teacher can’t be held liable for a student’s injury during a bottle rocket experiment.”

You can access today’s 4-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Georgia — which apparently is not closed today in celebration of the Independence Day holiday — at this link. The majority opinion begins, “David Dollar suffered an eye injury during a science experiment performed in his eighth-grade science class taught by appellant Patricia Grammens.”

The title of this post is courtesy of Thomas Dolby.

Posted at 4:22 PM by Howard Bashman