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September 16, 2011
Business
- Education Student loan default rates jump to 8.8 pct. Sharp increase comes as job prospects are low
- Real Estate Mortgage default warnings surged in August Increase represents biggest monthly gain in 4 years
- Economy Factory output mostly weak in August outside autos Retail sales unchanged
Column
- The Firm: What rainmakers know about persistence
- One Perspective: Michigan should lower its renewable portfolio standard requirements to zero
- On Point: Presidents, purity and polarization
- Taking Stock: For those of you with Apple shares: Sell, sell, sell
Nation
- Nation AP poll: Divisions persist on legal gay marriage
- Supreme Court Notebook
- Internal Revenue Service issues notice on 2010 estates
- ABA Death Penalty Representation Project marks 25 years of service
- National Roundup
- Illinois State high court hears police torture arguments Case could lay groundwork for several similar appeals
- Washington, D.C. Court decides expert may testify in paint fumes trial
Courts
- Supreme Court Watch The term of the century? Blockbuster cases await the U.S. Supreme Court this term
- Maryland Jury awards $5.1 million in lead-poisoning case State's statutory cap on noneconomic damages will reduce award to $1.25M
Feature
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- Lockdown Lessons
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Judge tosses lawyer’s defamation suit against ex-mayor for alleged crude and insulting statements
- Florida Supreme Court rules against prosecutor ousted by governor
- Law firm and lawyer in ‘quiet quit’ dispute drop their litigation
- Migrants who cross the border illegally won’t be allowed a lawyer if they don’t get one pronto