Sep 7, 2012

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Myanmar parliament adopts foreign investment law, tones down some limitations
Washington Post
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's parliament adopted a much anticipated foreign direct investment law Friday that is crucial to the government's ambitious plans for economic expansion in one of Asia's poorest countries. The law drops several provisions in ...
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Enforcing Arizona immigration law tough
San Francisco Chronicle
The most contentious part of Arizona's immigration law finally has approval to move forward, surviving a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, a heated national debate and two years of state politics. But the practical effect of what critics call the "show me ...
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New Law Penalizes Motorists for Ignoring Traffic Control Signs, Devices
Sacramento Bee
6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new state law imposing stiff penalties on motorists who ignore "road closed" or other safety warning signs and devices is now in effect, PennDOT said today. Act 114, signed on July 5 by Governor Tom Corbett, ...
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Family of Stacy Peterson hopes for justice after Drew Peterson convicted of ...
Fox News
"Finally, finally, finally," Mitch Doman, Savio's brother-in-law, said as he and his wife cried. Seconds later, he looked up at a reporter and said with a smile, "We finally got that murdering bastard!" Glasgow drew cheers from the crowd gathered ...
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Health Law High On Obama's List Of Accomplishments As He Makes Case For ...
Kaiser Health News
During the final night of the Democratic convention, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pledged to protect Medicare from GOP proposals to turn it into what they called a voucher program and extolled the benefits of the health law.
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Republicans Losing Election Law War As Campaign Ramps Up
Businessweek
There are at least 32 challenges to election law procedures pending in federal and state courts. About 21 of 32 election law challenges have been filed over laws in swing states with seven involving Florida and six involving Ohio. Photographer: Scott ...
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Chicago Law: Peregrine customers upset about delay in return of money
Chicago Tribune
Can you imagine having your bank account frozen for two months? Customers of Peregrine Financial Group Inc. have been left in such a lurch since the futures brokerage collapsed in July after a review of its segregated customer accounts revealed ...
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Judge: US challenge of Arizona law requiring secret ballots for union ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Arizona has rejected the government's challenge of a state constitutional amendment that guarantees workers the right to secret ballots in union elections. U.S. District Judge Frederick Martone says it is premature to ...
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Obama Admin. Welfare Waivers Violated Law, GAO Finds
The New American
The July HHS memorandum, however, stated that the department would waive these work requirements so that states could "test approaches and methods other than those set forth in" the law. This sort of blanket waiver differs significantly from the ...
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Cleary Gottlieb, Latham, Proskauer: Business of Law
Bloomberg
Financial-services and government-enforcement law firm BuckleySandler LLP has opened an office in California's Orange County. The firm also has offices in Washington, Los Angeles and New York. "We opened an office in Irvine to provide our many ...
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Law official: Man sets dog on teen while dad watches
Herald Times Reporter
FOND DU LAC — A Wisconsin homeowner who accused an 18-year-old man of theft tied the teen's ankles together, hung him upside-down from porch rafters and commanded a pit bull to attack him while the teen's father stood and watched, a sheriff's deputy ...
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Traffic Law - Lagos Police Ready for Enforcement
AllAfrica.com
The Lagos State Police Command has declared its readiness to begin full enforcement of the new Lagos Traffic Law and warning that in the process, nobody would be spared. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abubakar Umar Manko, who gave the indication ...
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Alberto Gonzales: Texas Voter ID Misstep
Fox News
As widely reported, last week a federal court rejected a Texas law that would require voters to present photo identification to election officials before being allowed to vote. This decision comes on the heels of another federal court decision that ...
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Law banning urban land auctions coming
New Era
WINDHOEK – Government has put in motion plans to change the Local Authorities Act and to ban town councils from selling land through auctions or tender processes that prevent many low-income earners from owning properties due to inflated prices.
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New Era
Paul Ryan Obamacare Funds Request Contrasts With Opposition To Law
Huffington Post
But contrary to the response from the Romney-Ryan campaign, the money Ryan asked for would have come directly from President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. The health care law boosts funding by $11 billion for the country's roughly 8,000 ...
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Legislators want to defend immigration law
South Bend Tribune
INDIANAPOLIS -- Three state senators say Indiana's attorney general effectively nullified their votes when he opted not to defend sections of a state immigration law he said were rendered invalid when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down similar sections ...
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Analysis: Arnault spooks Hermes into long arms of the law
Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - Calling in the law is an unorthodox takeover defense, and it shows just how much luxury goods maker Hermes fears Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, and his reputation for exploiting internal dissent to get what he wants. Hermes ...
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Workers say Darden violates federal
Toledo Blade
MIAMI — Darden Restaurants Inc. violated federal labor laws by underpaying thousands of servers nationwide at Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Red Lobster, and other eateries, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of the workers.
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Dear Abby: Calif. law protects transgendered dress
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Dear Abby: Last night at a restaurant, my husband and I were surprised to see a male server wearing a blond wig and full makeup. I was, to say the least, shocked and very glad we hadn't brought the children, ages 11 and 14, with us. How do you explain ...
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DUI law good idea
The Decatur Daily
A state DUI law that requires some offenders to install ignition interlock devices on their vehicles will keep the roads safer without forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for ineffective prison sentences. The device — already available in most states ...
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Ariz. 'Show Your Papers' Law Moving Forward
ABC News (blog)
Joshua Montano, left, and Deborah Robles protest in front of the state capitol the day after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, in an executive order, reaffirmed Arizona state law denying young illegal immigrants driver's licenses and other public benefits, Aug ...
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ABC News (blog)
Law cited as school absences fall again
Omaha World-Herald
However, the state numbers aren't necessarily evidence that truants are being rounded up, said a family advocacy group that views the law as overreaching. Some of the students who have run afoul of the law had legitimate excuses, such as health ...
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New law allows tollway to build railroad tracks
Chicago Daily Herald
... for their use, under recently approved legislation. Tollway leaders called the new law an "exciting opportunity" Thursday but downplayed the possibility of any immediate action, such as resurrecting the moribund suburb-to-suburb STAR line ...
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5th Circuit stays voter registration law injunction
Houston Chronicle
The state had asked the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans to stay an August order barring enforcement of several provisions of a 2011 law regulating third-party voter registration activities. U.S. District Judge Gregg Costa of Texas previously ...
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Advances in technology raises issues for copyright law change
The Australian
By the time the government starts to consider the recommendations, technology will have already moved passed the planned changes, which means that any alternations to the law should be technology-neutral. The commission's discussion paper noted that ...
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Laws steer Maryland's financial business to minority firms
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
In 2008, Catherine Pugh led what was, for Maryland, a groundbreaking effort. Four years later, in 2012, the Democratic lawmaker revisited that effort, clarifying and expanding a call for specified state agencies to use minority- and women-owned firms ...
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Stripper Law: A Potpourri of Pleadings From the Pole
Above the Law
Stripping is supposed to be a lucrative profession — just look at all of the law students racing to the poles in the hopes of obtaining gainful employment. And in some states, bumping and grinding on stage while wearing six-inch lucite heels is even ...
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Above the Law
Police Ready to Enforce Lagos Road Traffic Law
AllAfrica.com
The police in Lagos have pledged to begin the full enforcement of the state Traffic Law, warning that nobody would be spared. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abubakar Umar Manko, who disclosed this Thursday after a meeting with the state Security ...
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AllAfrica.com
New law allows Rockland transportation companies to operate outside the county
Mid-Hudson News
HAVERSTRAW – A new law signed by the governor will now allow Rockland County licensed taxicabs, limousines and livery vehicles to pick up or drop off a passenger in another licensed jurisdiction without being separately licensed by that jurisdiction.
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Blogs13 new results for law
 
PJ Media » Free Speech Free Fall: New Belgium Law Fines ...
By Robert Wargas
The saddest part about the recent decision in Brussels, Belgium, to fine "offensive language" is how utterly predictable it was. When you combine the inherently expansionist character of government with the nanny-state sensibilities of the ...
PJ Media
'Turn Around, Don't Drown' Now Law In Pennsylvania « CBS Philly
By TimothyJMcL
The law provides fines and license points for motorists who ignore signs warning that a road has been closed due to floods or other hazardous conditions.
CBS Philly
CHP Officer's Death Hits Bay Area Law Enforcement Hard « CBS ...
By Keith Mizuguchi
As family, friends and colleagues of California Highway Patrol Officer Kenyon Youngstrom mourn his death, the loss is being felt by law enforcement agencies and those who have lost loved ones in the line of duty.
CBS San Francisco
CrimProf Blog: "Federal judge upholds Arizona immigration law"
By CrimProf BlogEditor
Judge Susan Bolton, after hearing arguments [JURIST report] on the law in August, denied the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction in light of the US Supreme Court [official website] ruling in Arizona v. United States [opinion, PDF; ...
CrimProf Blog
PPP, PML-N interlocutors debate contentious accountability law ...
By noreply@tribune.com.pk (Irfan Ghauri)
Insiders say meeting discussed commission on new provinces, caretaker set-up.
The Express Tribune
HealthLawProf Blog: Announcing Bill of Health, a New Harvard Law ...
By HealthLawProf Hodnicki
SSRN Author's Page. Contributing Editors. Jennifer S. Bard Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development Alvin R. Allison Professor of Law Director, Health Law Program and J.D./M.D. Program Texas Tech Univ. School of Law ...
HealthLawProf Blog
CAIR Rep Applauds Muslims Shunning Law Enforcement ...
By ZIP
It took place over the objection of some Muslim activists who wanted a boycott of the meeting because of Chiesa's previous finding that public surveillance of New Jersey Muslims by the New York Police Department did not violate state law.
Weasel Zippers
AZ Judge Okays "Show Me Your Papers" Law - TalkLeft: The Politics ...
By Jeralyn
The Supreme Court struck down three other provisions of the law, such as the provision making it a misdemeanor not to carry documentation of lawful presence at all times, and a ban on undocumented immigrants soliciting work in public ...
TalkLeft
"Show Me Your Papers" Law Set to Go Into Effect In Arizona After ...
By David Dayen
A federal judge, in line with the recent Supreme Court ruling, has allowed Arizona law enforcement to move forward with implementing the "show me.
Firedoglake
LSU general counsel resigns, will retain law school teaching ...
By Jeff Adelson, The Times-Picayune
Baton Rouge -- LSU System General Counsel Ray Lamonica has resigned as chief legal adviser to the university's administration. The one-time U.S. attorney and lawyer for former Gov. David Treen will retain his position as a professor at the ...
New Orleans Metro Real Time News
Eighth Circuit Strikes Corporate Campaign Spending Law, Tees Up
By constitutional lawblogger
After Citizens United struck restrictions on independent corporate spending, this would remove the last meaningful restriction in state and federal law on corporate participation in electioneering. Keep an eye on this one. If, as the Eighth Circuit ...
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Marijuana Law Reform Activism In Full Display At Famous Michigan ...
By Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director
Another great example from the field this past weekend from upper Michigan, where numerous volunteers from Michigan NORML chapters showed the reform colors.
NORML Blog, Marijuana Law Reform
Scalia on Reading Law
By Tim Kowal
Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia spoke on his new book, Reading Law, at a lunch at the California Club in downtown Los Angeles today, hosted by the Federalist Society. The majority of Justice Scalia's remarks were ...
Dutch Courage

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Police in legal minefield on Ariz. immigration law - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: The most contentious part of Arizona's immigration law finally has approval to move forward, surviving a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, ...
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Kim Kardashian's Boobs Defy Law of Gravity in Astounding Cut-Out ...
Honestly, I wonder if Kim Kardashian has a deal with the devil because only evil powers could be holding this dress together. Kim is in New York for F...
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Jerry Jones' glasses wiped by his son-in-law during Cowboys ...
Watch: TV cameras show Cowboys owner's son-in-law wiping his glasses for him in luxury ...
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