Vermont Legal News

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Vermont Law News

Vermont attorney general's losses criticized
MONTPELIER -- The first was Vermont's campaign finance law setting the lowest contribution limits in the country -- shot down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The wonderful world of judicial confirmations
The legal beat isn't ordinarily a source of much amusement, especially when it comes to coverage of squabbles over federal court nominations. But there might be a chuckle in the strange tale of Sen. Bob Menendez and the...

Vermont Legislature considers banning hydrofracking
MONTPELIER -- Nobody has applied to Vermont for permission to drill for oil or gas using hydraulic fracturing. No one is sure it would even be worthwhile to do so.