Brainstorming for reform; Commission entertains ideas on changing multijurisdictional practice

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Desired changes given to the A.B.A. Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice are given, and include a nationwide license system enabling law practice in any jurisdiction and temporary practice in other states.

Standards, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Admission to the bar, A.B.A. Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice

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Smoke gets in your high-rise; tobacco-sensitive tenants increasingly sue over neighbors' nicotine habits

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Suits by tobacco-sensitive tenants over their neighbors' smoking habits and against building owners and property managers have become common although plaintiffs have enjoyed only moderate success. Nonsmokers' biggest victory was a June 1998 award of $4,350 by a Boston housing court judge in Gainsborough St. Realty Trust v.Haile to a couple whose landlord failed to prevent smoke from the bar beneath from entering the apartment. Anti-smoking activists say the decision and growing awareness of the dangers of passive smoking will result in more litigation.

Health aspects, Cases, Smoking, Antismoking movement, Tenants

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