Sep 14, 2012

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The Racial Burdens Obscured by Voter ID Laws
The Nation. (blog)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court hearing on Applewhite v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, over the state's voter ID law, was serious enough that it drew the presence of Ben Jealous, the president of the national NAACP. After 90 minutes of arguing about ...
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The Nation. (blog)
APNewsBreak: US law enforcement: Nakoula is filmmaker of anti-Muslim movie ...
Washington Post
... California who is on probation after his conviction for financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Mideast, a U.S. law enforcement official told The Associated Press on ...
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Huawei: Australia law could exclude China firms
Businessweek
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An official of Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies said Friday he is concerned that new Australian laws to protect communication networks from cyber-attacks could exclude companies from tendering for ...
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French piracy law claims first (innocent) victim
PCWorld
Prevost was consequently found guilty under a controversial French anti-piracy law known as HADOPI (Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet). HADOPI law follows a three-strike policy -- that is, under ...
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Don't let Virginia ID law discourage voting
Washington Post
Here's my nightmare scenario for the November election: President Obama wins the popular vote, but Mitt Romney triumphs in the electoral college amid massive controversies over whether new, Republican-backed voting laws helped him win in decisive ...
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New law sets stage for lifer's release
San Francisco Chronicle
Page 1 of 1. GRETNA, La. (AP) — A Jefferson Parish man serving life in prison for raping a woman when he was 15 years old is now eligible for parole under a state law passed this year in response to a U.S. Supreme Court order. The Times-Picayune ...
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UK's Artist Resale Royalty Law Didn't Damage the Art Market (Despite All the ...
Huffington Post
Wasn't the sky supposed to fall? The United Kingdom's six year-old artist resale royalty law, which requires that a percentage of the profit of a secondary market sale of art to be paid to the creative artist or, since the law was expanded in the ...
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Co-ops, SC law officers team up over copper theft
Sacramento Bee
Representatives from the cooperatives are taking part in an event on Friday with law officers including State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel, U.S. Marshal Kelvin Washington and Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott. Officials are planning to ...
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Judge temporarily blocks major provisions of federal insider trading law
Washington Post
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked enforcement of a new insider trading law that would require nearly 30,000 federal workers to disclose details about their financial transactions on the Internet. U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr ...
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Firms From Law to Finance Benefit From $1 Billion TARP Expenses
Bloomberg
Law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP agreed in 2009 and 2010 to contracts worth about $25 million, most of it for work related to auto-industry bailouts. TARP was enacted under the George W. Bush administration amid the 2008 financial crisis and ...
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'Patrick's Law' advances out of committee
NorthJersey.com (blog)
"Patrick's Law" was moved out of a Senate committee yesterday with the support of several animal rights witnesses. The law is named for Patrick the pit bull, a dog that was starved, thrown down a garbage chute and left for dead in Newark in 2011 ...
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Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' Law Likely To Remain
NPR
Even before the Trayvon Martin shooting cast a spotlight on Florida's Stand Your Ground law, it was controversial. The law strengthened Florida's statutes on self-defense by saying that when faced with death or great bodily harm, individuals could use ...
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NPR
Rights activists appeal Arizona "show-your-papers" ruling
Reuters
A federal judge last week cleared the way for the provision to take effect, ruling that the law's challengers had failed to show they were likely to prevail on the merits of the case after it was upheld by the nation's top court in June. The appeal ...
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Employment law reforms attacked
The Press Association
Employment law reforms announced by Vince Cable will allow company bosses to "exploit and bully" workers, unions have claimed. The Business Secretary confirmed that controversial "fire at will" proposals have been abandoned but firms are to be given ...
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Will Singapore's lemon law work on a defective iPhone 5?
CNET
According to The New Paper, retailers in Singapore generally appear to be clueless about this law, with one even accusing the reporters of lying when told that the law allowed customers to exchange defective products over a six-month period. This geek ...
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Health care law beneficial
Omaha World-Herald
In all the bitter arguing about the new health care law, we seem to have forgotten or ignored the vital part — that our U.S. government passed this law to improve the health of its citizens. After all, about one-third of them have no care at all ...
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Wash. high court: Gay rights law not retroactive
The Seattle Times
The high court said that while incidents that occurred before the law took effect cannot be retroactively remedied, they can be used in an overall hostile workplace case if the actions continued after June 2006. The case originated in King County ...
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Change of Pakistan's blasphemy laws unlikely
The Associated Press
By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press – 1 minute ago. ISLAMABAD (AP) — The apparent collapse of a case against a Christian girl accused of burning pages of a Quran has given a dim ray of hope to critics of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, some of the ...
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Huawei: Australia law could exclude China firms
The Associated Press
Huawei: Australia law could exclude China firms. By ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press – 1 minute ago. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An official of Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies said Friday he is concerned that new Australian laws ...
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Sebelius violated federal law speaking at HRC event: report
Washington Blade
Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law when she spoke before an LGBT audience about the need to elect Democratic officials at a Human Rights Campaign event, according to a report made public Thursday by the U.S. ...
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The Times Herald
LATEST NEWS; Area law enforcement personnel rally around... County commissioners respond to the death of... R6 service resumes after police investigation · Plymouth Township officer Brad Fox killed in line ... Romney trying to shift back to economy ...
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State ends fulltime dog law veterinarian position
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Ward was appointed to the new post as part of the sweeping overhaul of dog law during the Rendell administration. In that role she accompanied dog wardens on inspections of many of the worst kennels in the state, evaluating animal health and ordering ...
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When law is part of the problem
OUPblog (blog)
The law is often an ass. More often than ever. Modern governments, their hands tied by the robber-barons of global finance, often try to assert their power with their feet: by kicking out at another supposed social problem with another big policy ...
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Ban on Large Sugary Drinks Is Law; Mayor Brushes Off Non-Health Impacts
New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
It's now official. Soon, you will no longer be able to buy large sodas or other sugary drinks in New York City. It's a measure designed to help avert a growing health crisis, but far more people have voiced opposition to the large sugary drink ban than ...
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State undercuts open records law
Boston Herald
Massachusetts law supposedly ensures that state agencies fulfill public records requests within 10 days. MuckRock, an online service that tracks such records, has fully documented that state agencies are at best sluggish in responding and in many cases ...
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Heath care law needs full implementation
Towanda Daily Review
Much of the increase in coverage is due to a single development: passage of the new federal health care law in 2010. Because of a provision that allows people 19 or older to remain under their parents' policies until they are 26, an additional 1.6 ...
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Texas deputies mourn death of law enforcement dog
San Francisco Chronicle
TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Sometimes the right animal comes into a person's life at just the right time. For former Bowie County Sheriff's Deputy Bobby Dupree, that animal was a black German shepherd named Brenna. "She was more than just a dog — she ...
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Some of the tossed bank loot is now in law enforcement hands
Los Angeles Times
At least some of the money stolen from a Santa Clarita bank branch and hurled by suspects from their getaway car during a police chase has been returned to law enforcement officers, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Thursday afternoon.
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Blogs12 new results for law
 
French Anti-Piracy Law Claims First Victim, Convicted of Failing to ...
By Rainey Reitman
According to news reports published earlier today, the French anti-piracy law has claimed its first victim. The individual, described by TorrentFreak as a "craftsman from a small village in eastern France," was convicted of allowing his WiFi ...
Deeplinks
Oops: Sebelius broke the law campaigning for Obama at an official ...
By Erika Johnsen
The law prohibits most federal employees from "engaging in political activity while on duty," according to the special counsel, but some officials, such as cabinet secretaries, are permitted to make political statements in their personal capacity.
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Apple accommodates European law with Lightning Micro USB - TUAW
By Dave Caolo
Apple's iPhone 5 introduced the Lightning connectivity port as well as adapters for older, 30-pin hardware. A Micro USB adapter was also released on.
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
JURIST - Paper Chase: US House reauthorizes FISA surveillance law
By Brandon Gatto
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wedneday voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) [text, PDF], a highly contested law designed as a national security protection ...
Paper Chase
If this law passes, cops may finally need a warrant to read your ...
By Xeni Jardin
If this law passes, cops may finally need a warrant to read your Gmail. By Xeni Jardin at 3:12 pm Thursday, Sep 13. Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica: "Right now, if the cops want to read my e-mail, it's pretty trivial for them to do so. All they have to ...
Boing Boing
Confusion in the House: Misunderstanding Spying Law, and ...
By Julian Sanchez
The most common refrain from FAA supporters was that the law only concerned surveillance targeting "foreigners in foreign lands"—meaning it could not possibly affect the rights of Americans. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), in an impressive ...
Cato @ Liberty
Ecocide Law Backed by Green Party of England & Wales : TreeHugger
By Mat McDermott
Such a law is a long way from passing, but this is exactly how we have to be thinking if we want lasting environmental protection.
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Government Agencies Using Criminal Law for Self-Promotion
By Daniel Dew
Congress has given NOAA (and presumably other agencies) an incentive to dredge up as many criminal charges as possible and take people for everything they are worth.
The Foundry: Conservative Policy...
HHS Secretary Sebelius violated federal law on politicking « The ...
By Howard Portnoy
posted at 1:01 pm on September 13, 2012 by Howard Portnoy. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has advised the White House that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is in violation of a federal law that restricts ...
The Greenroom
Paget Brewster Makes The Jump To 'Law & Order: SVU'
By Nathan Francis
Paget Brewster has the same job but on a new show. The actress completed a six-year run on Criminal Minds and, this season, will remain in law.
The Inquisitr
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Questioned By State Supreme Court
By The Huffington Post News Editors
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court justices on Thursday aggressively questioned whether a politically charged law requiring photo identification from all voters should take effect for the Nov. 6 presidential election and ...
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The Secret Sauce for Law Review Placement - PJ Media
By Glenn Reynolds
Second, the good thing about law reviews is that there are a lot of them, and they're diverse. Just because you got rejected at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Law Journal doesn't mean you won't get published somewhere else, and ...
Instapundit

Web5 new results for law
 
House renews surveillance law for 5 years - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly renewed a surveillance law that allows the government to monitor conversations of foreign spies ...
news.yahoo.com/house-renews-surveillance-law-5-years-2118...
Breaking, as in the Law: Emails Show Obama Energy official ...
An Obama administration official actively collaborated with a prominent left-wing think tank in 2011 to advance the president's green energy agenda, in possible ...
riehlworldview.com/.../breaking-as-in-the-law-emails-show-ob...
Pa. Supreme Court weighs voter ID law — NewsWorks
Pennsylvania s Supreme Court heard testimony Thursday on the state s voter ID law There s no indication when there will be a ruling The controversial ...
www.newsworks.org/.../44213-pa-supreme-court-weighs-vote...
Whistleblower Protections Under Federal Law, and More from CRS ...
New reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made available to the public include the following. Whistleblower Protections Under.
www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/09/wb_protection.html
She Fought the Law, and She Won | Washington Free Beacon
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is unlikely to face punishment for breaking the law, Fox News reports.
freebeacon.com/she-fought-the-law-and-she-won/


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