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Nobody's child: the way Americans go about caring for abused and neglected kids is a mess; the only way to fix a system that fails everyone may be for juvenile court judges and lawyers to take charge

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Child abuse has increased with the rise in teen pregancy and in the abuse of crack cocaine and methamphetamine, and the juvenile justice system has proved unable to deal with this problem. Complaints of child endangerment rose from 2.2 mil in 1987 to 3.1 mil in 1996. Lawyers just out of law school have historically started in juvenile courts and viewed these as a place to polish litigation skills before they went on to other things. Attempts by states to overhaul their systems are detailed.

United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Cover Story, Child abuse

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Corporate boards can kill suits; key state court says investors must show wrongdoing

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in Cuker v. Mikalauskas that a corporate board had the authority to kill lawsuits brought by minority shareholders unless the plaintiffs could show wrongdoing by directors. The case comes as more shareholder actions are filed in state courts to avoid the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The aim of that law is to limit frivolous shareholder actions, which corporations estimate waste billions of dollars in legal fees annually.

Pennsylvania, Cases, Securities fraud, Stockholders' derivative actions, Shareholder lawsuits

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