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Arizona Immigration Law Protested After 'Show Me Your Papers' Provision Takes ...
Huffington Post
By PAUL DAVENPORT AND FELICIA FONSECA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. PHOENIX — A day after the most contentious provision of Arizona's immigration law took effect, rallies were held around Phoenix to protest the mandate that civil rights activists say ...
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CBO: Health-Law Tax to Hit 50% More Than Estimated
Fox Business
That's two million more people getting hit with the new tax, or a 50% jump, versus what the CBO initially estimated in 2010, right after President Barack Obama inked his signature health reform into law. Plus the CBO now says the government's take from ...
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Federal judges grill lawyers over DNA sample law
Huffington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — A California deputy attorney general, defending a state law requiring everyone arrested for a felony to provide a genetic sample, endured tough questioning Wednesday from members of an 11-judge federal appeals court panel. At least ...
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John Hancock, law firm face tax shelter racketeering lawsuit
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - John Hancock Life Insurance Co and its law firm, Edwards Wildman Palmer, must face a class action accusing them of violating racketeering laws by marketing a tax shelter, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The 6th U.S. Circuit ...
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Oklahoma Challenges Health Law in New Suit
Wall Street Journal
The health law was designed to have state-run exchanges set up where consumers could compare insurance plans and apply for federal subsidies to be used toward the cost of premiums. The law also penalizes employers that don't offer affordable coverage ...
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicts gay marriage law will come before ...
Washington Post
The law was passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton after the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a ruling in 1993 making it appear Hawaii might legalize gay marriage. Since then, many states have banned gay marriage, while eight states have ...
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court orders second look at voter ID law
Christian Science Monitor
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court allowed a new voter ID law to proceed Tuesday, but it ordered the state judge who first OK'd the law to take a skeptical second look to make sure that, in the state's rush to provide IDs in time for the November election, ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Senators prepare to vote on Netflix and e-mail privacy
CNET (blog)
In 1988, when President Reagan signed a video privacy bill into law, computer users were sipping bandwidth through the tiny straws of 2400 bps modems, IBM was selling mainframe databases for over $200,000, and musician Rick Astley's "Never Gonna ...
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Judge Details a Rule Requiring Pro Bono Work by Aspiring Lawyers
New York Times
The rule requires law students to do pro bono work for the poor, nonprofit or civil rights groups or any of the three branches of government, between the first year of law school and the time they apply for a license. The work can be performed anywhere ...
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Common-Law and Same-Sex Families Gaining Ground in Canada: Census
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Married couples as a proportion of all Canadian families declined between 2006 and 2011, while the share of common-law couples increased. Growth in common-law couples comfortably outpaced the increase in married couples and lone-parent families.
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Washington law firm partners are earning 14 percent more than in 2010
Washington Post (blog)
Partners at Washington law firms are earning 14 percent more this year compared with 2010, according to a law firm partner survey by legal consulting group Major, Lindsey & Africa and the research unit of ALM Media, which publishes The American Lawyer.
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Will police reforms lead to a perfect law and order storm?
The Guardian (blog)
All in all it's a big gamble at a difficult time, which could lead to a perfect law and order storm: disaffected and resentful police being reluctant to co-operate with reform or even to do their law enforcing duty when they feel misunderstood and ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Bengal to make law to punish striking transporters
New York Daily News
Kolkata, Sep 20 — The West Bengal government Thursday said it was planning to bring in a stringent law to rein in errant transport operators. Under the law, the operators would lose their permits and licences if they inconvenienced the public by ...
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Medical marijuana law no protection for fired Battle Creek Walmart worker ...
MLive.com
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The firing of a former Battle Creek Walmart worker, who was dismissed for failing a drug test but claimed he should be exempt because of Michigan's medical marijuana law, has been upheld by a federal appeals court that ruled the ...
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MLive.com
State law is immutable (except when it's not)
San Francisco Examiner
Throughout the heated debate about the damnable opt-out requirement, the same line was repeated over and over again as if describing some unmovable force: California state law requires the plan to be "opt out" and not "opt in." Of course, it's a state ...
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San Francisco Examiner
Should we have the right to disobey Islamic law?
Hot Air
Should we have the right to disobey Islamic law? The future of western civilization hinges on our response to this question. Right now people are suggesting that "hate speech" should not be free speech because when people blaspheme Mohammed, Muslim ...
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Witness intimidation law must be read with a nuanced eye
Dlnnews
The law in question — the "witness intimidation law" — says that no person, by force or by unlawful threat of harm "shall attempt to influence, intimidate, or hinder … an attorney or witness involved in a criminal action or proceeding in the ...
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Martial law, baby
Inquirer.net
Forty years after Proclamation 1081 plunged the country into the abyss of military rule, a new legacy of the dictatorship has come into focus: the startling reality that a new generation of "martial law babies" was born many years after the fall of ...
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The AM Roundup: Junket Probe, Libor, Health Law Challenge, More
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Money laundering probe: China allows residents to take only $50,000 in currency abroad a year, so some VIPs rely on foreign tour operators, known as "junkets," to provide access to far greater sums to gamble with in U.S. casinos. The U.S. Treasury is ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Islamic states to reopen quest for global blasphemy law
Reuters
As if to underline the point, a conference in Geneva of the World Council of Churches (WCC), which groups the world's major Protestant, Orthodox and Evangelical churches, urged Pakistan to abolish its blasphemy law, which carries a possible death penalty.
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Joshua Morse III, Law School Dean Who Defied Segregation, Dies at 89
New York Times
Joshua Morse III, who as dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law in the 1960s defied segregationist tradition by admitting the school's first black students, a move that led to the desegregation of Mississippi's legal profession and ...
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Groups protest Ariz. immigration law's enforcement
The Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — A day after the most contentious provision of Arizona's immigration law took effect, rallies were held around Phoenix to protest the mandate that civil rights activists say will lead to systematic racial profiling. More than three dozen ...
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Will judge's decision stand on Wisconsin's collective bargaining law?
Isthmus Daily Page
Last Friday, Dane County Judge Juan Colas partially overturned Act 10, which eliminated most collective bargaining rights for most Wisconsin public employees last year. Gov. Scott Walker's office released a terse, bitter reaction in which he calls ...
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Isthmus Daily Page
Twitter promises to keep metadata for Australian law enforcement
ZDNet
Twitter has agreed to establish better contact with Australian law enforcement and "preserve metadata," following meetings with the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) and with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) ...
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Marquette University Law School poll shows Baldwin leading Thompson
LGBTQ Nation
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A new Marquette University Law School Poll released Tuesday shows the Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, leading her Republican challenger former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, ...
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LGBTQ Nation
Law enforcement officers right to decry crackdown at Capitol
Capital Times (blog)
Solidarity Sing Along participant Brian Standing challenges Capitol Police officer Gary Bauer to arrest him during the 455th consecutive gathering of protest singers inside the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison, Wis. Friday ...
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Kelsky Law, P.A., Relocates To New Office In Plantation
Sacramento Bee
PLANTATION, Fla., Sept. 19, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Brad E. Kelsky, P.A., is proud to announce the opening of its new office located at 1250 S. Pine Island Road, Suite 250 in Plantation, Florida. With the move, the Firm will now be known ...
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Michael McCann: Mayweather's latest run-in with the law could send him back to ...
SI.com
Mayweather's release from jail was not without strings. His release is "supervised" and "probationary" for one year, with Mayweather having to prove that he can function as a law-abiding citizen. Probation imposes numerous life restrictions, including ...
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New Philippines law bans 'cybersex' | The Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster
The president of the Philippines signed a cyber crime bill into law on Tuesday that, much to the chagrin of Internet freedom activists, outlaws "cybersex," bans "unsolicited commercial communications" online and imposes criminal penalties on ...
The Raw Story
Muslim states vow to impose global blasphemy law - Atlas Shrugs
By Pamela Geller
Like I have been telling you ........ they have the media and the politicians, but they don't have freedom loving peoples -- that's you and me. This is war in the information battlespace -- get ready to rumble. "reopen quest" oyish "Islamic states to ...
Atlas Shrugs
ROAD TRAFFIC LAW: Okada riders protest across Lagos
By adekunle
COMMERCIAL motorcycle operators popularly called 'Okada riders', once again yesterday stormed different parts of Lagos metropolis in protest against restriction placed on their operations by the new traffic law enacted in July. According to ...
Vanguard News
Judge tosses student suit against DePaul College of Law ...
(Crain's) — A Cook County judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing DePaul University's College of Law for "playing fast and loose" with its job placement data, but the attorney for the plaintiffs plan on appealing. The suit, filed in February by a ...
Chicago Business News
Arizona Begins Enforcing Immigration Law — For Now | FrontPage ...
By Arnold Ahlert
What Arizona law enforcement officials actually do may be largely irrelevant. It is no secret the Obama administration and its minions in the Department of Justice (DOJ) are contemptuous of Arizona's attempt to protect itself, despite the reality ...
FrontPage Magazine » Daily Mailer
Wealthiest Law School Graduates - Business Insider
By Aleksi Tzatzev
While law school grads certainly face a bleak future these days, many of the 400 wealthiest Americans do hold law degrees. But these wealthy law grads are not practicing law for the most part. Read on to see what they're doing and how much ...
Business Insider
Confusion over utility deposit law affecting Lynchburg's poorest | The ...
Confusion over a new utility deposit law is affecting some of Lynchburg's poorest residents, who are meant to be exempt from the sizeable fees.
www2.newsadvance.com - Local
Supreme Court hears arguments on MOSIRA law
By Mike Lear
The state legislature passed Senate Bill 7 in last year's special session enacting the Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act but only if Senate Bill 8 also became law, which it didn't. The Court must decide whether such a ...
Missourinet
Law Professor Elected President of Faculty Athletics ...
By admin
Brian Shannon, the Charles B. "Tex" Thornton Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law, has been elected to serve as president of the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives (1A FAR) association. His two-year term as president ...
Texas Tech Today
Media groups fear anti-cybercrime law » Nation » News | Philippine ...
By By Camille Diola
Media organizations and digital dwellers continued to fear the implications of the new cybercrime law for purportedly including clauses that may threaten freedom of expression and of the press.
philstar.com - Breaking News
09:36 AM - How Appealing - Law.com
"U.S. must show anti-prostitution pledge memo for HIV groups: court." Reuters has a report that begins, "U.S. officials must hand over a 2004 legal memorandum on the constitutionality of requiring non-governmental, U.S.-based HIV/AIDS ...
How Appealing
IntLawGrrls: Go On! 2012 International Law Weekend, NYC
By Diane Marie Amann
"Ideas, Institutions, and Interests – Dynamics of Change in International Law" is the theme of this year's annual International Law Weekend, to be held October 25-27, 2012, in New York City. Keynote speaker will be Judge Theodor Meron (left), ...
IntLawGrrls
Our Parental Trigger Law and the Problem of Passing Laws You ...
By Betsy Phillips
So I'm reading along in Nate Rau's story in The Tennessean about parents wanting more information on Tennessee's trigger law, which would allow a school...
Nashville Scene

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When the Data Differs, Whose Jobs Stats Should Would-be Law ...
Finding trustworthy advice on law school can be no easy task. And it doesn't seem to be getting any easier. Pre-law advising for potential law students is too ...
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Hosemann thinks new voter ID law will hold up in court » Mississippi ...
JACKSON — Mississippi's photo voter identification law may survive legal challenges because the state has made plans to provide free ID cards in many ...
msbusiness.com/.../hosemann-thinks-new-voter-id-law-will-ho...
'Law & Order' Star Claims Her Co-op Was a Death Trap - DNAinfo.com
S. Epatha Merkerson says her co-op at the historic Riviera building jeopardized her life.
www.dnainfo.com/.../law-order-star-claims-her-co-op-could-h...
Rare Pink Dolphin Protected By New Bolivian Law | International ...
Bolivia declared the Bolivian river dolphin part of its natural national heritage on Wednesday with a new law protecting the animal signed by President Evo ...
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