Aug 26, 2012

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US court to test South Carolina voter ID law
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina this week will try to convince a United States federal court its new voter identification law doesn't discriminate against black voters, contrary to a finding by the federal government. The trial set to begin on ...
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Illinois law aims to improve physical education
Sacramento Bee
OAK PARK, Ill. -- A new Illinois law aims to strengthen physical education in the state's schools. Gov. Pat Quinn signed the legislation Saturday and called on Illinois residents to get healthy and take his "Walk Across Illinois Challenge." The ...
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A new breathalyzer law drives anger in France
Los Angeles Times
Orgeval has been getting all kinds of credit, and not all of it the good kind, for a new French law that has been met with widespread grumbling, if not disbelief: Every driver in the country must have a personal breathalyzer, or face a fine. Hoping to ...
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Los Angeles Times
Law Professor Says One Of Romney's Tax-Avoidance Schemes Is Illegal
Business Insider
To be fair, it appears that, legally, this particular tax-avoidance scheme is still in the "not yet settled" phase as opposed to the "established law" phase. At some point, if the IRS concludes that the capital gains treatment is bogus, it will likely ...
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Business Insider
Law Review: A charity's loss, and its cry for legal help
Philadelphia Inquirer
Law Review: A charity's loss, and its cry for legal help. In a world rife with cynical self-promotion and self-aggrandizement, the Philadelphia Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a Catholic charity whose sole mission is helping others. email. print ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Law Offices of Todd M. Garber Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Green ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
LOS ANGELES — The Law Offices of Todd M. Garber announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of a class (the "Class") consisting of all persons or entities ...
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Lawyer in Bieber case fights anti-paparazzi law By The Associated Press ...
Laramie Boomerang
A paparazzo charged with recklessly pursuing Justin Bieber for photos will challenge the constitutionality of the law targeting aggressive celebrity-hounding tactics, his attorney said Friday. Attorney David S. Kestenbaum filed a motion asking a judge ...
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JOEY KENNEDY: Flawed immigration law sure to get more legal challenges
The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
Bentley, Hammon and other immigration law supporters say the "teeth" of the law -- the provision allowing police to check the immigration status of people at traffic stops -- was upheld. Not so fast. As did the U.S. Supreme Court with a similar ...
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The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
California's TRUST Act Helps Local Law Enforcement Prioritize
Fox News
Imagine you head to lunch with a "friend" who has forgotten his wallet and he asks you to pick up the tab. Next, imagine that your friend does the same thing every day and never pays you back. But he always invites you to lunch. That's the kind of ...
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Our View: Rule of law, or one man?
Peoria Journal Star
Interim McLean County State's Attorney Ron Dozier has certainly stimulated a discussion in deciding not to prosecute certain violations of Illinois' gun laws, specifically regarding concealed carry. "We will no longer use the power and authority of our ...
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Law and order must be kept in mind during protest: Sandeep Dikshit
Zee News
New Delhi: Commenting on India Against Corruption (IAC) members protest outside the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit on Sunday said that law and ...
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Disabled-worker pay law assailed
DesMoinesRegister.com
A federal law allowing employers to pay disabled workers less than minimum wage inspired a protest Saturday outside a Goodwill store in east Des Moines. About a dozen demonstrators from the National Federation of the Blind of Iowa braved a steady rain ...
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Law helps curb scrap metal theft
Citizens Voice
HARRISBURG - The recent announcement by Lackawanna County District Attorney Andy Jarbola about a rash of thefts of scrap metal at the PNC Field construction site spotlights a problem that's been developing for some time. With prices for scrap metal at ...
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JB Van Hollen: State voter ID law must be reinstated
La Crosse Tribune
Throughout the past year, the battle for election integrity has focused on Wisconsin's new Voter ID law. The law, which took effect June 9, 2011, is simple: Qualified voters who appear at the polls must present proper photo identification to prove that ...
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Rangel: Voter ID law set for critical court showdown
Amarillo.com
This week — most likely Friday — a federal court in Washington is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the pending legislation that would require Texans show government-issued photo identification before voting. If the three-judge panel rules ...
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Judge rules domestic violence law discriminatory
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) — State prosecutors are appealing a Lincoln County judge's ruling that Montana's domestic violence law has a "gross flaw" that discriminates against heterosexuals. The Whitefish Pilot reports (http://bit.ly/PeYgvy ) defense attorney Tim Baldwin ...
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Ohioans mixed on nixing health-care law or not
Columbus Dispatch
Was it Yogi Berra who said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it? Give Ohioans four choices on what should happen now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the federal health-care law, and they choose all four. The biggest single group ...
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Romney, Bain dancing at outer boundaries of tax law
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
In 2008, a study of the technique by Gregg Polsky, a tax-law professor at the University of North Carolina, concluded that it is "extremely aggressive and subject to serious challenge by the IRS…. The tax result, if this technique is successful, is ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Law & Disorder (Aug. 26, 2012)
Kingston Daily Freeman
The following items are based on information provided by officials in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. CITY OF KINGSTON • DWI: Peter S. Wintermantel, 28, of Allegany was arrested at 8:50 p.m. Friday on St. James Street and Broadway by ...
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Haley, state's lawmakers should work to pass ethics reforms into law
Spartanburg Herald Journal
Haley wants to eliminate the legislative exemption to the Freedom of Information Act, requiring lawmakers to abide by that law. Of course, when she was running for governor, Haley used this legislative exemption to refuse to release some of her email ...
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Upstate NY woman convicted of punching 70-year-old Walmart greeter; faces 2 ...
New York Daily News
Jacquetta Simmons, 27, was found guilty Friday of felony assault under New York's Granny Law, which imposes harsher sentences for intentionally hurting someone over the age of 65 if the defendant is 10 or more years younger than the victim. The Dec.
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New York Daily News
John Wildermuth: Transparency is vital, if convenient
Record-Searchlight
Not that the California Environmental Quality Act might not be ripe for an update, or at least a public, no-holds-barred discussion of how the law is being used and whether it's still doing what it was designed to do. That wasn't what was going to ...
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State law changes allows pharmacists to vaccinate more youngsters
Quincy Herald Whig
A change in Illinois law should make it easier for youngsters to get vaccinations and, potentially, to curb growing concerns about the spread of pertussis, or whooping cough, statewide. Illinois children as young as 10 years old now can get vaccinated ...
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FDA Tobacco Warning Label Law Requiring Graphic Images Was Defeated in ...
Gather.com
In a 2-1 decision Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington affirmed a lower court ruling that the FDA's requirement to place a graphic tobacco warning label image on cigarette packaging was in violation of the tobacco industry's first amendment.
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The Law: Overtime pay? Not so fast
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
The devil can be in the details, and this certainly is true when it comes to overtime pay. Most employers know that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides that certain types of employees — exempt employees — don't need to be paid overtime.
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The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
Law to enhance physical education in Illinois schools
KFVS
CHICAGO, IL (KFVS) -. Governor Pat Quinn today signed a new law Saturday to enhance physical education in Illinois schools. Quinn urged Illinois residents to take the "Walk Across Illinois Challenge." It's a program the governor launched to improve the ...
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Naivasha Law Courts Moving to New Premises
AllAfrica.com
The ultra-modern Naivasha law courts will be opened next month. Naivasha Chief magistrate Stephen Githinji said works on multi-million shilling project are on the last stages. He said Naivasha has four magistrates but three court rooms adding that the ...
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Voter ID a clearly partisan law
Allentown Morning Call
Despite there being zero reported cases of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, the majority Republican Party was able to pass the Voter ID law to suppress the Democratic vote. This law affects 9 percent of the voters in a state that has voted to elect ...
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Blogs13 new results for law
 
South Carolina law could deny tens of thousands of minorities - RT
By RT
A new South Carolina voter identification law could cause tens of thousands of people, especially minorities, to be turned away at the voting booths during the 2012 presidential election.
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » DO LAW SCHOOLS CONSIDER ...
By Glenn Reynolds
DO LAW SCHOOLS CONSIDER APPLICANTS "HOLISTICALLY?" No. "I really don't know how Dorf and his co-authors can claim this. It's common knowledge that law school admissions at the vast majority of law schools comes down almost ...
Instapundit
Righeimer accuser linked to police union law firm | righeimer, police ...
By By TONY SAAVEDRA, ELYSSE JAMES and MICHAEL MELLO
COSTA MESA – The mystery caller who falsely accused Costa Mesa Councilman Jim Righeimer of driving drunk is a private investigator linked to a law firm that worked for the Costa Mesa Police Association. Dispatch tapes obtained by The ...
The Orange County Register -...
New Illinois Law Forces Parents To Report Children's Disappearance
By John O'Connor
Law inspired by Caylee Anthony case. ... SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) A new Illinois law makes it a felony for parents to stay silent if a child dies or disappears. The law was inspired by the case of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony in Florida. She was ...
CBS St. Louis
Concurring Opinions » Illinois Law Review, Issue 2012:4
By University of Illinois Law Review
the Law, the Universe, and Everything. < · advertise-here4. Slip Opinions. Myself on this blog warning in December 2010 ... Our Podcast. Subscribe to Law Talk. Posts by Author. Select Author, Abigail Moncrieff, Adam Benforado, Adam Kolber ...
Concurring Opinions
Lagos Road Traffic Law: Okada riders want six months sensitisation
By adekunle
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Commercial motorcyclists, popularly called "Okada" riders say the Lagos new Road Traffic Law is "ambiguous' just as they called on the state government to give six months grace of intensive sensitization for road users ...
Vanguard News
Sentencing Law and Policy: Following the money in ballot contests ...
By Doug B.
Campaigns to become the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Washington and Colorado have raised $3 million ahead of a November vote, far outpacing the opposition. Proponents of pot legalization in Washington ...
Sentencing Law and Policy
International Law Reporter: Hathaway et al.: The Law of Cyber-Attack
By Jacob Katz Cogan
Yet the attacks look little like the armed attacks that the law of war has traditionally regulated. This Article examines how existing law may be applied — and adapted and amended — to meet the distinctive challenge posed by cyber-attacks.
International Law Reporter
The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Clinic Wins Settlement in
By The John Marshall Law School
The Fair Housing Legal Clinic took action in a familial status discrimination case after a local family was regularly excluded from a campground pool and community facilities due to the property's policies. The Clinic won a $10,000 settlement in ...
News and Publications
Data collectors threaten to challenge criminal records law » Local ...
By Maureen Hayden
Private companies that buy and sell court records used in background checks are threatening to challenge a state law that allows people with years-ol.
Terre Haute, Indiana Local &...
CJ says courts can examine any administrative action or law – The ...
By noreply@tribune.com.pk (Our Correspondent)
Says judges must stand up to pressure; calls upon bars to support judiciary.
The Express Tribune
MURPHY'S LAW: CFB Season Underway, LLWS Thriller, "Polk" not ...
By Chris Hassel
By Chris HasselCollege football season is underway, in Iowa! Yes, it's only Grand View, but it's still football. The 11th ranked Vikings kicked off at 6pm, tonight, against Graceland (Bruce Jenner's alma-mater). The Hawks and Cyclones (and ...
WHOTV.com – Des Moines news...
Here they go again – this time with the Patent SHIELD Act ...
By Ron Katznelson, Ph.D.
First, note the text of the bill: whereas the preamble in Subsection (a) refers to both types of actions – "action disputing the validity or alleging the infringement" – the substantive law section is geared exclusively against the patentee "alleging ...
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law

Web4 new results for law
 
Romney cites Mass. law to defend stance on women's health issues ...
I'm the guy who was able to get healthcare for all the women and men in my state ," said Romney. Mitt Romney rebuffed Democratic suggestions that the GOP ...
thehill.com/.../245489-romney-cites-mass-law-to-defend-stanc...
Illinois law aims to improve physical education - DailyHerald.com
A new Illinois law aims to strengthen physical education in the state's schools. Gov. Pat Quinn signed the legislation Saturday and called on Illinois residents to ...
www.dailyherald.com/article/20120826/news/708269889/
How to Evaluate Law Schools | LSAC.org
When choosing a law school, you should consider the student body, surrounding community, faculty, special programs, student organizations, and more.
www.lsac.org/jd/choose/evaluating-law-schools.asp
The PJ Tatler » Law Professor Becomes Unhinged at Tea Party Event
A professor from the University of Toledo College of Law lost it yesterday at a election integrity conference in Ohio sponsored by True the Vote. Professor Ben ...
pjmedia.com/.../law-professor-becomes-unhinged-at-tea-party-...


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