JURIST - Paper Chase: Tuesday US law and business press review

In Tuesday's US law and business press, the Miami Daily Business Review reports on controversial religion- and family-based questions that the 15th Judicial Circuit Judicial Nomination Commission has been asking judicial aspirants in screening interviews.... The New York Law Journal reports that a NY federal judge will allow a class action suit to proceed against former analysts at Robertson Stephens who allegedly recommended technology stock Corvis Corp. to inflate its price, then sold their own shares.... According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, former Microsoft executive vice president of law and corporate affairs Bill Neukom has been named chairman of Seattle-based law firm Preston Gates & Ellis LLP.... The Fulton County Daily Report reports that a GA federal judge has thrown out incriminating statements a murder suspect made during interrogation by police detectives. This decision is being called an "important step in the court's continual refinement" of Miranda warnings.... FindLaw's Writ has Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman's column on NJ's domestic partnership law, as well as Fordham law student George Kanabe's guest column on regulations regarding medical industry gifts to doctors.

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