Oct 11, 2012

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Federal Court Blocks Voter ID Law in South Carolina, but Only for Now
New York Times
WASHINGTON — A federal court on Wednesday blocked South Carolina from enforcing its new voter photo ID law in next month's election, saying that there was not enough time to educate voters and officials about it. The ruling was the latest in a string ...
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Malaysia transsexuals lose challenge against law
Businessweek
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court on Thursday dismissed an attempt by a group of transsexuals to challenge a law that bars Muslim men from wearing women's clothes. Lawyers say it is the first known effort to overturn an Islamic Shariah ...
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Marriage Equality, Law, and Politics: The Battles in Maryland, Minnesota ...
Towleroad
That's a conversation worth having because the reason politics, society, and law matter to each other paves the path ahead for ultimate success in our quest for civil rights. Consider the following case study: If I believe that the courtroom has the ...
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Race a Legitimate Consideration in Law School Process
ABQ Journal
Why did we, friendly rivals as deans of great and sometimes competitive law schools, join forces to write a common brief to the U.S. Supreme Court? Because we both believe that higher education should select the best possible students, because we both ...
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Law Librarian Claims She Lost Nearly 80 Pounds On The 'Starbucks Diet'
Above the Law
Well, that's not true, because one person, a law librarian at a Top 50 law school, is certainly aware of its existence, and she claims that it helped her to lose nearly 80 pounds over a two-year period. To lose that much weight, you may be wondering ...
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Clarifying health law misinformation
Alamogordo Daily News
I am writing in response to the story in the Oct. 2, 2012, edition of the Daily News about health care reform put forward by Dr. Ferial Abood and Jim Heckert titled "Health Care Breakdown." The Affordable Care Act guarantees that Medicare remains an ...
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'Law & Order: SVU' Tackles 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
The book at the center of the case on "Law & Order: SVU" may not have been E.L. James' 50 Shades of Grey, but the episode was clearly inspired by it. The story followed the young author of a similar book on a promotional tour. After appearing on a talk ...
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Vermont Law School chooses director of new food systems center
Boston.com (blog)
Vermont Law School announced Wednesday that Laurie Ristino, a senior attorney and administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has been selected as the first director of VLS's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. The center was created last ...
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I Feel Like My Daughter-In-Law Is Taking My Son Away From Me -- What Do I Do?
Huffington Post
Tina remembers, "The first time I met my soon-to-be daughter- in-law my son brought her home for the weekend and it was awkward from minute one. My daughter and I kept staring at each other with 'What do we do now?' glances, but my son merely looked ...
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'Law & Order': The all-star reel
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
One of the great things about Law & Order is that there was room in every single episode for juicy guest starring roles. You had suspects, witnesses, lawyers, criminals, the families of victims, shysters, hookers, doctors…need I go on? And over 20 ...
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Law would not force churches to perform gay weddings, spots note
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The facts: Section three of Maryland's same-sex marriage law includes a provision that says religious institutions are not required to conduct or "celebrate" gay weddings. The bill was amended during the debate to include a nonseverability clause so ...
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Attorneys say DeLay never broke law
ReporterNews.com
A prosecutor with the Travis County District Attorney's Office told the Third Court of Appeals Wednesday that the former Houston-area congressman did violate Texas law when his political action committee funneled corporate donations to Texas candidates ...
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Military Voting Rights Case to be Appealed to the Supreme Court
American Center for Law and Justice (blog)
Ohio's Attorney General has decided to appeal a federal appeals court decision on a military voting rights law to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision by the lower court could have far-reaching and disastrous affects on the voting rights of the men and ...
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HM the King Issues Decree-Law 54 for 2012
Bahrain News Agency
In another Decree-Law (55), HM the King amended some provisions of Decree-Law 15 for 1977 on the issuance of development bonds, authorising the Finance Minister to issue, in agreement with the Central Bank of Bahrain, development bonds and funding ...
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Bahrain News Agency
A Law Unto Himself
National Review Online (blog)
The WARN Act requires defense contractors to give notice on November 2 of layoffs that will be necessary on January 3, when the sequestration law requires big cutbacks in defense spending. The administration has asked companies not to send out the ...
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'Law & Order' drama turns a few shades of 'Grey'
Boston.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBC's ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' is taking on several shades of gray. The show's producer says Wednesday's episode (9 p.m. EDT) dramatizes the potential legal effect of bondage novels like the best-selling ''50 Shades of ...
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Superior Court Upholds Parental Notification Law
SitNews
The legal challenge to the Parental Notification Law was filed by Planned Parenthood of the Great North West (PPGNW), which claimed that the law violated their minor patients' right to privacy, equal protection and due process, and that it was too ...
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Panel recommends reopening case into Florida woman's death earlier ruled a ...
Fox News
The Bradenton Herald reports that a law enforcement review panel assembled by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement held a closed-door meeting last month to go over the Bradenton Beach police investigation of the death of Sheena Morris.
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Inconsistent Genome Privacy Laws Need Toughening, Panel Says
Businessweek
Many U.S. states lack laws to protect people from harmful use of their whole DNA transcripts, or genomes, and should work with the federal government to provide consistent protection, presidential advisers said. About half of states don't have ...
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NC abortion ultrasound law at issue in campaign ad
WRAL.com
A recently-passed North Carolina's abortion law is at issue in a campaign ad airing in a Wilmington state senate district race. In the ad, Democrat Deb Butler criticizes Republican Sen. Thom Goolsby for his stand on women's health, particularly his ...
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Anti-Cybercrime Law Suspended in Philippines
Sci-Tech Today
An anti-cybercrime law in the Philippines aims to combat Internet crimes such as hacking, identity theft, spamming, cybersex and online child pornography. But journalists and rights groups oppose the law because it also makes online libel a crime, with ...
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Sci-Tech Today
Tough Michigan immunity law for drugmakers may not apply in meningitis cases ...
Detroit Free Press
Attorney Douglas Peters of Charfoos and Christensen in Detroit, who specializes in medical malpractice and drug product liability law, said Michigan residents can only sue drug companies if victims can prove the company committed some sort of fraud to ...
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Motorola Solutions gives $15M to boost effort to build National Law ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The National Law Enforcement Museum being developed in Washington is getting a $15 million boost from Motorola Solutions Inc. The Schaumburg, Ill.-based communications technology company is announcing one of the museum's ...
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Pennsylvania riding the national wave of voter-restriction laws
PennLive.com
No fewer than 180 restrictive voting bills have been introduced in 41 states since the beginning of 2011, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. Pennsylvania is among 19 states that have passed 25 laws ...
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PennLive.com
French lawmakers adopt law on EU fiscal pact
Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - France's lower house of parliament adopted on Wednesday the law needed to enact a European Union fiscal discipline treaty obliging governments to balance their budgets or face sanctions. Lawmakers voted 490 in favor of the legislation ...
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California's Prop 36 Would Scale Back Three Strikes Law
ABC News
California voters will decide whether to scale back the state's "three strikes" law, which allows prosecutors to press for 25-years-to-life sentences for anyone with a third felony conviction. Proposition 36, which is on the Novemeber ballot, would ...
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ABC News
Former law officials back campaign to legalize pot
TheNewsTribune.com
The campaign to legalize and tax recreational marijuana sales for those over 21 in Washington is launching a new television ad campaign Thursday, featuring former federal law enforcement officials arguing that pot prohibition has failed. The Associated ...
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South Carolina Voter Law Ok'ed, but Must Wait Until 2013
Fox News
WASHINGTON – A panel of three federal judges upheld a South Carolina law requiring voters to show photo identification, but delayed enforcement until next year, in a decision announced Wednesday, less than a month before this year's presidential ...
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Pa. organizations struggle to make sense of revised state gaming law
The Herald-Mail
Several hundred members of area social clubs, veterans groups and nonprofit organizations flocked to the Franklin Fire Company in Chambersburg on Tuesday night hoping to make sense of a revised state gaming law. The Small Games of Chance seminar, ...
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Blogs13 new results for law
 
South Carolina Voter ID Law Barred From 2012 Implementation, But ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON -- A three-judge panel barred South Carolina's voter ID law from going into effect before the 2012 election on Wednesday, but said it could be implemented in elections beginning in 2013. "Act R54 as interpreted thus satisfies ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Law School Tuition Projections - Business Insider
By Abby Rogers
By the 2021-2022 school year, Cornell Law School students can expect to shell out $79,800 and Yale Law School scholars aren't much better off, with an expected tuition of $76,300, according to charts Leichter posted at The Law School ...
Business Insider
Law Firm, Red Wings, Comerica Bank Donating Smoke Detectors ...
By sstoddart
The smoke detector collection at Comerica banking centers is in addition to collections at Detroit Red Wings games at Joe Louis Arena.
CBS Detroit
Federal Law Enforcement Backs Marijuana Legalization | NORML ...
By Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Coordinator
Washington State's marijuana legalization initiative I-502, has just released two new television ads prominently featuring former federal law enforcement.
NORML Blog, Marijuana Law Reform
Federal court greenlights South Carolina voter ID law | The Daily ...
By David Demirbilek
A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia unanimously upheld South Carolina's photo ID statute on Wednesday. The ruling represents a swing in momentum from recent court decisions striking voter ID laws in ...
The Daily Caller
Federal Judges Upholds South Carolina Voter ID Law | Breaking ...
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A panel of three federal judges upheld a South Carolina law requiring voters to show photo identification, but delayed enforcement until next year, in a decision announced Wednesday, less than a month before this year's ...
Breaking News for Black America
Law enforcement agents back marijuana legalization in new ...
By Eric W. Dolan
New Approach Washington unveiled new advertisements Wednesday that show former law enforcement officials supporting Initiative 502. The ballot initiative would legalize the production and sale of marijuana in Washington state through ...
The Raw Story
Nigeria needs a space law centre, says space scientist
By adekunle
Abuja – Dr Gbenga Oduntan, a space scientist from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom on Wednesday in Abuja advised Nigeria to establish a special space law centre. Oduntan gave the advice in a lecture delivered in Ile-Ife at the ...
Vanguard News
Judges Approve South Carolina Voter ID Law for 2013 | Main Justice
By Elizabeth Murphy
The ruling deals a blow to the Justice Department's ongoing efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which many say is under attack with the proliferation of voter identification laws across the country.
Main Justice
FDA Law Blog: Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Prompts Calls for ...
By FDABlog HPM
By Kurt R. Karst – It was 50 years ago today (October 10th) that President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Kefauver-Harris Amendments of 1962, Pub. L. No. 87-781, 76 Stat. 780 (1962), which amended the 1938 FDC Act...
FDA Law Blog
Law school explores move to Downtown campus | ASU News | The ...
By Nicholas Palomino Mendoza
ASU administrators are in the early stages of developing a plan to move the Sandra Day O' Connor College of Law into a new, 294,000-square-foot facility on the Downtown campus. The Arizona Board of Regents approved the initial budget ...
ASU News | The State Press |...
Fed Judge 2002 – Questions why law Prof not licensed in MA ...
By William A. Jacobson
After my post on September 24, Elizabeth Warren's law license problem, one of the main defenses of Warren has been that she was not really practicing law "in Massachusetts" because she only worked on out of state cases. It turned out that ...
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Mumford Holds at No. 1, Muse's '2nd Law' Leads Multiple Debuts On ...
By Keith Caulfield (@keith_caulfield), Los Angeles
Rock band Muse earns its highest-charting album as The 2nd Law debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The set sold 101000 in its first week, according to Nielsen...
DOPNEWS: Billboard

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Health care law increases access to primary care through the National
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that $229.4 million was invested in the National Health Service Corps in 2012 to ...
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M Ravi 'currently fit to practise law': psychiatrist - Yahoo! News ...
Read 'M Ravi 'currently fit to practise law': psychiatrist' on Yahoo! News Singapore. After seeking a second opinion on his mental state, human rights lawyer M ...
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