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05/20/2013
RWU Law Grads Top Connecticut Bar Exam Results
Many RWU Law grads take the Connecticut bar exam and the state bar provides much helpful data that facilitates comparisons between and among regional law schools. The results for the February exam...
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  • February 07, 2013
    Yelnosky: Is Pension Reform Constitutional?
    From COMMON GROUND: "Constitutionality of Pension Law in Question" February 1, 2013 - Reading the op-ed pages of a certain local newspaper, one might gain the impression that the constitutionality of the contested pension reform law is all but assured -- that a state legislature has the freedom to undo what it has done, even when it comes to retirement benefits for state employees. But the constitutionality of the law is far from certain, says a professor at the Roger Williams University School...
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  • June 18, 2012
    Murphy on Illegal Music Downloads
    From PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS: "Illegal tunes no music to his ears" by Rebecca Keister, PBN Staff Writer JUNE 11, 2012: Joel Tenenbaum just received his doctorate at Boston University, where he’ll start teaching statistics courses to MBA students this fall. His post-graduate work took six years to complete. Before that, he earned a bachelor’s degree at Goucher College in Maryland. He’s been in school his entire adult life and throughout it all there’s been one constant: having his name...
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  • January 24, 2012
    Margulies on Rumsfeld Lawsuits
    From the ABA Journal: "Unknown Knowns: Torture Suits Against Rumsfeld May Revive a 40-Year-Old Liability Case" by Leslie A. Gordon Feb 1, 2012 - Asked in 2002 whether there was any evidence that Iraq had supplied terrorists with weapons of mass destruction, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously opined: “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are...
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  • December 19, 2011
    Stravato '11 Takes On Facebook
    From the Providence Journal: "Johnston lawyer sues Facebook over privacy" by Gregory Smith, Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, December 18, 2011 — On his personal Facebook page, lawyer Edward Stravato [RWU Law '11]  lists some of his interests and favorite movies and posts photographs. Although he is on Facebook, the dominant Internet social-networking site, which links participants with their “friends,” Stravato does not find Facebook to be very friendly. He dislikes its privacy practices...
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