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The Association of American Law Schools desk book, a directory of law professors from participating schools, includes Warren among the minority law professors listed, beginning in 1986 and continuing through 1995. The years include time she spent teaching at the University of Texas and the University of Pennsylvania, before she joined the faculty at Harvard [...]

The chairman of the legislature’s public safety and security committee said he will look into whether more regulation of all-terrain vehicles is needed after a 14-year-old died while riding a quad last week. “Do we have enough laws on the books to protect people?” state Rep. Stephen Dargan, D-West Haven, asked Friday. Dargan said he [...]

Conscious Care Cooperative has a solid footing in a growing industry, with three storefronts in Seattle and a loyal customer base. But for much of the last two years, the nonprofit medical-marijuana provider has lacked one business basic: steady access to a bank. The cooperative has bounced among five financial institutions, and four others rejected [...]

Only one in nine former Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS) U.K. staff hunting employment over the past three months have found themselves new jobs. According to research based on data from Imas-insight, a corporate finance firm, of the 132 RBS staff registered on the Financial Services Authority database as inactive on April 11, [...]

JURIST Columnist Kevin Johnson, writing a special edition of the column authored by the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, says that despite public concerns over racial profiling, the Supreme Court is focusing on issues of federalism in the case of Arizona v. United States, and will likely uphold at least [...]

The Opposition says documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show an alarming rate of absenteeism in South Australian public schools. It says nearly 30 per cent of public school students are absent for 10 days or more per term. Opposition education spokesman David Pisoni said the documents indicated 28,000 students annually were missing the [...]

National Australia Bank will restructure its UK banks at a cost of 195 million pounds ($317 million) after deciding it was too hard to sell the business and too hard to expand in a depressed market. NAB, which has been reviewing its Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks in light of deteriorating conditions in Britain, said on [...]

BEIJING, CHINA, Apr 29, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – Mountain China Resorts (Holding) Limited /quotes/zigman/624535 CA:MCG -25.00% (“MCR” or the “Company”), today reported its financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. MCR reports its results in Canadian Dollars. Financial Results Total revenue and the net results were from resort operations with no [...]

Share with others: <!—-> Tokyo business school helps rebuild areas hurt by quake The Graduate School of Management at Globis University in Tokyo will work with the Daimler-Nippon Foundation Innovative Leader Fund to support reconstruction work in areas destroyed by the deadly earthquake in Japan in March 2011, the school said in a statement last [...]