What to wear: courts agree on principle of school dress codes, disagree on their reach
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Several recent and pending challenges to school dress-code restrictions indicate different judicial conclusions on the boundaries of such codes. The TX Supreme Court upheld a school's rules on hair length and earrings for young men in Barber v CO Independent School Dist, while the IN Supreme Court will soon consider a similar case in which a state appellate court backed the school in Hines v Caston School Corp. Free speech claims may distinguish Pyle v S Hadley School Committee, soon before the MA Supreme Judicial Court.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1995
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Number, please; ABA explores nationwide lawyer identification system
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The ABA in conjunction with Martindale-Hubbell is considering a national attorney identification system. Each of the 820,000 attorneys in the US would be assigned a number, which might be placed in Martindale-Hubbell's Law Directory. The ABA House of Delegates endorsed this concept in Feb 1992 after recommendation by the Commission on Evaluation of Disciplinary Enforcement. This system would help coordinate states' attorney discipline activities as more lawyers embark on multistate practices.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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Critics fear impact of ethics restatement: ALI's new standards for lawyer behavior could be basis for malpractice claims
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The American Law Institute is still developing its controversial Restatement on the Law Governing Lawyers a decade after the project began, with the document now half completed. Critics note the growing body of both aspirational and binding guidelines governing the profession, and fear that the ALI's additional layer will simply be fodder for lawsuits and other actions against lawyers. In particular they criticize formulating a restatement on issues where no clear consensus has evolved.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1995
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