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Tackling IRS Disputes for Low-Income Washingtonians
Illustration of two women with laptops among larger-than-life objects including books, tax papers, a calculator and a calendar. © Getty/Irina_Strelnikova.

Tackling IRS Disputes for Low-Income Washingtonians

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One student’s experience volunteering with the University of Washington School of Law Federal Tax Clinic. (Source: WA Bar News; Illustration © Getty/Irina_Strelnikova.)

Jury Awards Woman $34 Million for Wrongful Conviction
Kirstin Blaise Lobato, center, outside the federal courthouse in Las Vegas with her lawyers, Elizabeth Wang and David Owens. She was 18 when she was arrested in the murder of a man.Credit...K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via Associated Press.

Jury Awards Woman $34 Million for Wrongful Conviction

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David B. Owens and students from the Civil Rights and Justice Clinic helped secure a $34 million wrongful conviction verdict in Nevada.

AI Music Fraud Indictment Brings Scrutiny to Streaming Inflation

AI Music Fraud Indictment Brings Scrutiny to Streaming Inflation

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Royalty-chasing by inflating streaming numbers isn’t new, but the use of AI was a “critical ingredient” for Smith’s seven-year-long scheme, said music and intellectual property law professor Peter Nicolas from the University of Washington School of Law. (Source: Bloomberg)

FOX 13 Seattle Interviews Jessica West on recent SCOTUS Abortion Decision
Jessica West on FOX 13.

FOX 13 Seattle Interviews Jessica West on recent SCOTUS Abortion Decision

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UW Law Lecturer Jessica West spoke with FOX 13 Seattle on the Supreme Court allowing emergency abortions in Idaho.

County audit details grim conditions at Capitol Hill youth jail
The Patricia Hall Clark Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) in Seattle, Feb. 5, 2020. (Matt M. McKnight/Cascade PBS)

County audit details grim conditions at Capitol Hill youth jail

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Young detainees report concerns with drinking-water quality, long periods without visitors, lack of substance-abuse treatment and staffing shortages. Professor Kim Ambrose, director of the Race and Justice Clinic, is quoted. (Source: Cascade PBS)

Dean Lawson on Alternative Pathways to Licensure
Dean Tamara F. Lawson

Dean Lawson on Alternative Pathways to Licensure

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UW Law Dean Tamara F. Lawson tells the ABA Journal that supervised practice "is more closely linked to competence than any 100 multiple-choice questions will ever be."