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| Lawyer Reportedly Ousted from Her Arraignment on Drug Charges for Talking Too Much | A suburban Oklahoma City lawyer was removed from the courtroom on Tuesday during her arraignment on drug charges, reportedly because she was talking too much. Amy McTeer of Nichols Hills is charged with methamphetamine possession, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication, NewsOK reports. A court officer told the publication that McTeer interrupted the judge and prosecutor. “She wouldn't stop talking,” the unnamed court officer said. “She was obviously agitated and she was talking over everyone else.” McTeer was arrested on Monday after she flagged down police and told them she was poisoned by a man who left her… |
| Top-Tier Law Schools Report an Increase in Summer Associate Hiring | Students at top-tier law schools are securing more summer associate positions, though the job numbers still fall short of levels before the recession. Reuters collected summer hiring statistics from top-tier law schools and found: • At New York University, about 70 percent of incoming third-year law students got summer associate positions in 2011, up 15 percentage points from the previous year. • At the University of Chicago, about 77 percent of 3Ls obtained summer associate positions last year, up eight percentage points from the previous year. • At Yale, about 75 percent of 3Ls obtained summer associate jobs, up three… |
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| | Berlusconi facing new trial on wiretap charges | [JURIST] A judge in Milan ruled Tuesday that former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archives] will stand trial for publicly releasing a secret wiretap in 2005. The prosecution alleges that Berlusconi published the transcript of a tapped phone conversation [BBC report] in Il Giornale [media website, in Italian], a national newspaper owned by his brother. The conversation in question took place between Berlusconi's biggest political rival at the time, Piero Fassino [official website, in Italian], and... |
| EU court limits privacy rights for public figures | [JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] issued two rulings [press release] on Tuesday upholding the right of the media to report on celebrities and limiting celebrities' right to privacy. In Axel Springer AG v. Germany [judgment], the court examined whether a German actor's right to privacy was violated when a paper published a newspaper article and photos of his arrest for illegal drug possession at a public festival. The court determined that an injunction restricting publication... |
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