FindLaw's Top 10 Breaking Legal Documents of 2014

This has been quite a year for breaking legal stories; 2014 has produced some shocking court decisions, grand jury hearings, celebrity deaths, and shady settlements.

Here are the 10 most-viewed breaking legal documents from FindLaw's Courtside blog in 2014:

1. Dad Must Pay Half of Daughter's Cornell Law School Expenses: NJ Court -- Turns out that child support doesn't end when your kids go to college, and one New Jersey father found that out the hard way.
2. Stephen Glass Denied California Bar License; Disgraced Journalist Fabricated 42 Magazine Articles -- Unrepentant ex-journalist Stephen Glass won't be practicing law in California anytime soon, thanks to a ruling by the California Supreme Court.
3. Ferguson Grand Jury Transcript: Darren Wilson's Testimony -- The Ferguson grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson after hearing this testimony about how Michael Brown was, in Wilson's words, "like a demon."
4. Michael Brown Homicide: 2 Police Reports Obtained by ACLU -- Early in the Michael Brown shooting investigation, the ACLU managed to retrieve two police reports with some detail of what occurred that day.
5. Teacher Tenure Laws Are Unconstitutional, Shock the Conscience: CA Judge -- A California judge struck down laws which may have kept "grossly ineffective" teachers in the classroom.
6. Judge Posner Tosses 'Scandalous' $90 Million Settlement Deal Loaded with Shady Dealings -- Settlements don't always pass judicial scrutiny, and the Seventh Circuit found this one to be patently unfair.
7. Bill Cosby Responds to Sex Assault Lawsuit With Demurrer -- Bill Cosby attempted to get a sexual assault lawsuit against him dismissed by pointing to the statute of limitations for the 40-year-old allegations.
8. Woman Files Lawsuit to Prove She Is Alive -- Being considered legally dead is a major problem, as one St. Louis woman found out.
9. Philip Seymour Hoffman Friend Sues National Enquirer for $50 Million Over Gay Lovers Article -- The National Enquirer ran a story claiming the late Philip Seymour Hoffman was having a gay tryst, but the man who found him dead sued over those statements.
10. Calif.'s 'Yes Means Yes' Sexual Assault Bill Signed Into Law -- California Gov. Jerry Brown took a positive step toward preventing rape on college campuses by signing this new "yes means yes" bill into law.

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