Oct 25, 2012

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Trial over law school liberal bias ends with deadlocked jury
World Magazine
U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Shields declared a mistrial Wednesday night in a case involving Teresa Wagner's claim that liberal faculty at the University of Iowa law school denied her a teaching position in 2007 because of her conservative views on ...
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NJ prosecutor defends law enforcement response in disappearance of girl, 12 ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
CLAYTON, N.J. - A New Jersey prosecutor is defending the law enforcement response to the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl who was found killed, her body stuffed into a recycling bin. The family of Autumn Pasquale (pas-KWAHL'-ee) has accused law ...
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2 men acquitted under new US gay hate crime law
Huffington Post
The first U.S. prosecution under a new federal law against anti-gay violence ended with a Kentucky jury acquitting two cousins of hate-crime charges while finding them guilty of kidnapping in a 2011 attack on a gay man. Prosecutors had argued that ...
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Duncan Law Dean Steps Down
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The saga of Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law has taken another turn, after the American Bar Association affirmed its denial of provisional accreditation for the school this summer. Now, Duncan has lost its dean, and may consider ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Partisanship Guides Americans' Attitudes on Health-Care Reform Law: Poll
U.S. News & World Report
THURSDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Two years after it was signed into law, Americans' views on the Affordable Care Act continue to track along party lines, even among those who say they've personally been affected by the controversial health-reform ...
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Canada's Top Court to Hear Brothel Law Appeal
ABC News
The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear a government appeal of a ruling striking down a ban on brothels. Ontario's top court said in March that a ban on brothels increased the dangers prostitutes face because it forces them to work outside, and ...
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Happy 300th episode, 'SVU'! Let's celebrate with the show's five craziest episodes
Entertainment Weekly
I know, I know — trying to select the five craziest episodes of Law & Order: SVU is like trying to determine which part of Lake Michigan is the wettest. SVU has ridiculosity running through its very veins, which may the reason the series has survived ...
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US appeals court hears Maryland gun law challenge
Baltimore Sun (blog)
On a roll in recent years, a gun-rights group pressed its advantage in a federal appeals court Wednesday, seeking to extend Second Amendment rights through a challenge to Maryland's handgun permit laws. "We're not challenging the constitutionality of ...
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Deval Patrick says Hurricane Sandy will test utilities' response under new ...
Boston.com
By Glen Johnson, Globe Staff. Governor Deval Patrick says the approaching Hurricane Sandy will not only test the state's emergency preparedness planning, but also that of utilities now operating under a new law aimed at making them accountable for ...
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MURPHY'S LAW: The Joys Of Blockade
Strategy Page
MURPHY'S LAW: The Joys Of Blockade · WARPLANES: Aircraft For Little Ships · MORALE: Nuclear Carriers Headed For Oblivion · INFORMATION WARFARE: Satellite Jammers Turned On · AIR DEFENSE: Proof That Russian Missiles Are In Gaza ...
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Obama supporters worry a Romney victory will endanger healthcare law
The Hill (blog)
The prospect of a Romney presidency is making some supporters of President Obama's healthcare law increasingly nervous. Romney has a narrow edge over Obama in national polls, and has closed the gap or taken the lead recently in several key swing ...
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If no law exists, no illegality exists
Daily Inter Lake
A person can certainly think it was wrong of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill to keep a $500,000 contribution from the Montana Republican Party, but Democratic candidate Steve Bullock's claim that it was illegal is obviously wrong. U.S ...
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Kan. Democratic leaders propose 'Buy American' law
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) — Democrats in the Kansas Legislature proposed a "Buy American" law Thursday to require state agencies to use U.S.-manufactured goods in public works projects. The proposal, announced by Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka and ...
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Viewpoints: Should voters modify '3-strikes' law? No
Sacramento Bee
Proposition 36 promises to reduce crime and save money, but instead releases thousands of California's most active serious and violent offenders and weakens the most effective crime law in the United States, California's "three-strikes" law. The ...
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State begins citing businesses under immigration law
Greenville News
The Association then became one of the first seven employers in South Carolina to be cited for violating the state's newest tweaks to its immigration law, which requires all new employees, other than farm laborers, ministers and domestic servants, to ...
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Traffic Law - Lagos Evicts Nigeriens, Others
AllAfrica.com
Lagos State Government has said about 100 nationals of Niger Republic among others have been escorted out of the metropolis in the last 24 hours, those who break the state law are more often than not aliens. Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) disclosed ...
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Pull It Up! Florida City Passes Law Banning Saggy Pants (PHOTO)
Global Grind
Critics said the new law could lead to racial profiling. They worry the city is stereotyping those who wear saggy pants as being criminals. The saggy pants rule doesn't take effect until 2013, and is only on public property, such as streets and sidewalks.
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LA law would bar stores from selling commercially bred pets
Los Angeles Times
L.A. law would bar stores from selling commercially bred pets. Council tentatively adopts ordinance that targets puppy mills and will prevent thousands of euthanizations in city shelters. Animal rights activists sought the ban. print. Comments. 11 ...
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Kyleigh's Law passes first test
Asbury Park Press
We supported Kyleigh's Law when it became law in May 2010, including the controversial provision that teen drivers display a 1-inch by 1-inch square decal on the front and rear license plates of the vehicles they're driving. And we have argued against ...
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Woman Accuses Father-in-Law of Rape
AllAfrica.com
A 24-year-old woman from Migori has alleged her father-in-law wanted to rape her. Lilian Achieng, a mother of four from Kirengo village yesterday told the police that her 56-year-old father-in-law, PAtrick Abwao dragged her into her bedroom with ...
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New Anti-Corruption Model Law Will Help to Strengthen Good Governance ...
AllAfrica.com
Senior law officers who have been reviewing a new anti-corruption model law believe it will help strengthen integrity in public life and good governance in their countries. The Integrity in Public Life Act - developed by the Commonwealth -will provide ...
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Health Law, Costs Confusing For Consumers
Kaiser Health News
[A]bout 15,000 physicians and medical students from around the country, working through the grassroots advocacy group Doctors for America, [haven taken] on the challenge of explaining the [health law] to patients and providers. ... Dr. Vivek Murthy, an ...
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Police target Backpage.com 'escort' ads
Press-Enterprise
Law-enforcement officials are pressuring the website Backpage.com to pull advertisements for what it calls escort services, which authorities say are actually ads for prostitution. Prostitutes, including one 15 year old, have testified that Moreno ...
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Press-Enterprise
Ky. court upholds law for safety devices for Amish
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld a state law requiring an Amish sect to post orange safety triangles on their buggies, although the ruling is irrelevant because lawmakers changed the law earlier this year. The high court's decision on ...
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Law Student of the Day: A Good Samaritan Hero
Above the Law
Would you jump onto train tracks in front of an oncoming train if you were a Seton Hall Law student? Oh, I mean to save another person. Would you jump in front of an oncoming train to save somebody else? Well, if you didn't jump, you might be liable ...
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Sultan's Tax Break on Mansion Shows Law Favors Wealthy
Businessweek
Bloomberg News. Sultan's Tax Break on Mansion Shows Law Favors Wealthy. By Chris Spillane and Neil Callanan on October 25, 2012. Tweet; Facebook; LinkedIn; Google Plus; Comments · Email · Print ...
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Law enforcement figures take aim at 'Community Safety' bills
Capital New York
Law enforcement figures take aim at 'Community Safety' bills. law-enforcement-figures-take-aim-community-safety-bills. Briefing: Ray Kelly. Azi Paybarah. Tweet. By Azi Paybarah. 7:34 am Oct. 25, 2012. After two public hearings in Brooklyn and Queens ...
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Capital New York
Online Reviews: When Do They Go From Helpful to Defamatory?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Ashby Jones. Thanks in part to websites like Angie's List and Yelp, the internet is chock full of "user reviews" for all types of goods and services, from restaurants to dentists to pet groomers. But when, if ever, can negative reviews get a ...
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Law Enforcement Blotter 10/25
Brownwood News (blog)
*Brown County Sheriff's Office arrested 33-year-old Larry Wayne Durham Jr. for evading arrest with previous conviction and a warrant for theft. All arrestees are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Blotter information compiled ...
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'Law & Order: SVU': Cast members new and old close book on 300th ...
By Jacqueline Cutler
Every script is new. Every story is a case. That's the genius," says "Law & Order: SVU's" Richard Belzer. "Every week there is a formula, but the writing is so good it never gets boring."
From Inside the Box
How Do Changes to Montana's Self-Defense Law Explain the ...
By Jacob Sullum
Critics of "castle doctrine" laws are blaming Montana's for the decision not to prosecute Brice Harper, who shot and killed Dan Fredenberg last month.
Reason.com Full Feed
New Book: Law of Superheroes - Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
By Dennis Crouch
by Dennis Crouch The book that we've all been waiting for is finally out: The Law of Superheroes. James Dailey and Ryan Davidson have turned their popular blog (http://lawandthemultiverse.com/) into book published by Gotham Books, ...
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
California Greenhouse Gas Law Faces Challenge | Transportation ...
By Julie Caine
Implementation of the law was delayed earlier this year by a U.S. District Court judge in Fresno, who ruled that the regulations violate the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Transportation Nation
Inhofe smacks Obama administration for ignoring law | The Daily ...
By Caroline May
Sen. James Inhofe says that President Barack Obama broke the law by not publishing a regulatory agenda this year. The Oklahoma Republican says that, under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the White House is required to release a a list of ...
The Daily Caller
Judge Napolitano: It's Not Against the Law for the Government to Lie ...
By Studio B
Fox News has obtained internal emails that show government officials knew that an Al Qaeda-linked terror group claimed responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya just hours after it happened. Hundreds of members of the ...
Fox News Insider
House passes law targeting funding for terrorism - The Nation
House passes law targeting funding for terrorism. The House yesterday passed the anti-financial sponsorship of terrorism law and the amendment to the Anti-Money Laundering Act that were needed to...
NationMultimedia.com - Politics
Pennsylvania Law: Workers Will Pay Taxes To Their Employers
By James Johnson
A new Pennsylvania law that has passed the state House and Senate will allow employers to keep part of the money their workers pay for income.
The Inquisitr
NRA-ILA | Maryland defends state gun law
By NRA-ILA
Attorneys for the state of Maryland argued Wednesday in federal court that a law requiring residents to provide a "good and substantial reason" for seeking handgun permits is a reasonable restriction that promotes safety without violating the ...
NRA-ILA News
Casket law Louisiana monks are challenging ought to be killed off ...
By Jarvis DeBerry, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
If formality and ritual aren't your thing, and if the scorn of your peers doesn't bother you, you can wrap your dearly departed grandma in a potato sack, cover the body with two feet of dirt and rest easy. The state of Louisiana won't say a thing.
New Orleans Metro Real Time News
UPDATE: Law enforcement sources identify girl killed at Staten ...
By Staten Island Advance
Witnesses, MTA say 15-year-old Tottenville HS student jumped in front of oncoming train.
Staten Island Real-Time News
Landers: New law raises penalties for trespassers - Spokesman.com ...
The Washington Legislature has raised the stakes for hunters who go onto private property without permission. A law enacted this year gives wildlife officials authority to confiscate equipment, including rifles, used by a trespasser in the pursuit ...
Spokesman.com: Sports stories
New Pennsylvania Law Requires Women To Prove They Were ...
By djtrell
In order to get benefits, women in Pennsylvania will have to prove that they reported their assaulter they accused of rape. According to The Huffington Post: ...
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Dem Lawmaker DeFazio Breaks Election Law With Impunity ...
Liberal media bias, unseemly election scams and more than typical Democratic mendacity blend seamlessly together to form the scandalous re-election ...
www.redstate.com/.../dem-lawmaker-defazio-breaks-election-l...
A Possibly Big Payday Awaits Two Law Firms Suing on Behalf of US ...
Two law firms could collect hundreds of millions of dollars in contingency fees as result of lawsuits filed on behalf of a U.S. regulator. The two law firms are ...
www.abajournal.com/.../a_possibly_big_payday_awaits_two_l...
Fla. justices divided on courtroom closure law - Miami Herald
The Florida Supreme Court is divided over whether a state law allowing partial exclusion of the public from sex crime trials meets constitutional muster.
www.miamiherald.com/.../fla-justices-divided-on-courtroom.h...


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