Evidently, some American lawyers have opened up a practice at a local mall in in The Netherlands. Read more at NZHerald.com…

Ex-student turns to prostitution, blames school
By Mike Corder

A family is considering appealing the decision made by a Dutch court on Wednesday that a high school was not to be held accountable for an ex-student turning to prostitution.

A compensation claim was made by a woman who sued her former high school for allegedly failing to stop her from becoming a prostitute.

Maria Mosterd claimed her school should have done more to prevent pimps preying on her and told her mother about her repeated truancy.

The 20-year-old wrote a book about her experiences, claiming pimps took her from school in the eastern city of Zwolle and put her to work as a prostitute.

She and her mother say they went to court to highlight the problem of pimps, known in the Netherlands as “lover boys” who befriend and exploit young girls.

“This happens at many schools, and nobody takes responsibility for it,” Mosterd’s mother, Lucie Mosterd, said in a telephone interview.

Read more at Law.com…

Law School Professor Withdraws Suit Against Legal Blog
by Karen Sloan

A law school professor has withdrawn a lawsuit accusing the legal blog Above the Law of publishing a “viciously racist series of rants” after reporting the professor’s arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution.

University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones dropped his lawsuit on Wednesday, nine days after he filed it pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He did not respond to a request for comment.

Above the Law Managing Editor David Lat declined comment on Thursday, but in a blog post on Wednesday wrote that there had been no settlement and that the posts Jones complained about will remain on the site. He offered to let Jones make his case on Above the Law, but there was no word from Jones on that front as of Thursday.

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Jones had accused the site of portraying him in a false light, invading his privacy and infringing the university’s copyright on his faculty photo. The suit named as defendants Lat, publisher David Minkin and parent company Dead Horse Media Inc., now called Breaking Media LLC. It sought $44 million in damages and removal of the content from the Web site.

The claims stemmed from a series of posts that the blog ran in October 2007 about a run-in Jones had with Miami police in August that year. Jones — a prominent African-American civil rights activist in Miami — was arrested after he allegedly asked an undercover officer for sex. He insisted he was merely asking for directions. The charges were later dropped and Jones’ arrest record was expunged, but not before Above the Law posted the police incident report and a variety of commentary, including a reader-submitted photo collage depicting Jones conversing with prostitutes. Jones alleged that the collage and much of the commentary was racist and hurt his career.

Read the whole story at The Reno Gazette-Journal…

Nevada brothel owner files lawsuit against Nye County

A legal brothel has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court claiming county officials are trying to shut down the industry by refusing to license brothel employees.

The lawsuit filed Thursday by the Chicken Ranch, a bordello 60 miles from Las Vegas, is the second against Nye County over regulation of brothels.

Chicken Ranch owner Kenneth Green argues that a county rule requiring brothel buyers to be Nevada residents for at least six months is unconstitutional. He also says the county is refusing to license his brothel manager, a situation he says jeopardizes the business should something happen to him.

Nye County Commission Vice Chairman Andrew “Butch” Borasky on Friday said he couldn’t discuss pending litigation. County attorney Robert Beckett also said he could not comment on the suit.

In a related case pending in federal court, the county disputed arguments that brothel owners are protected by the due process and the privileges and immunities clauses in the U.S. Constitution.

“Legalized prostitution … is not a fundamental right,” the county argued in a case brought by Bruce Kahn, a Texas businessman who agreed to buy the Chicken Ranch but in 2007 was rejected for a brothel license, in part because he did not live in Nevada.

The county argued that prostitution is unlike some protected interstate industries, such as insurance and law.