Dec 21, 2012

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Judge blocks Mo. insurance law on birth control
USA TODAY
(AP) — A federal judge has blocked a new Missouri law requiring insurers to offer policies excluding birth control coverage because it conflicts with a federal law mandating such coverage. Judge Audry Fleissig issued a temporary restraining order ...
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Court blocks California law banning gay therapy
Huffington Post
The appeals court's order prevents the state from enforcing the law, SB1172, while a different three-judge panel considers if the measure violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and parents. National Center for Lesbian Rights legal director ...
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It's Time to Emphasize Pragmatic and Achievable Gun Law Reform
Huffington Post
If today is a typical day in America, 34 people -- men, women, and children -- will be killed with a gun. Countless more will be wounded. As the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, I don't enjoy the luxury of ideological debate -- whether guns in our society ...
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Obama asks Americans to help with gun law changes
CBS News
A website set up by the White House to solicit petitions has been flooded in the wake of last Friday's gun massacre at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, and today, President Obama issued a video response to petitioners, indicating that he hears the ...
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Congress tweaks US video-privacy law so Netflix can get on Facebook
Ars Technica
It looks like Netflix will finally manage to get the small change to US privacy law that it's been seeking for nearly two years now. Last night, the Senate passed a reform to the Video Privacy Protection Act, or VPPA, that Netflix says it needs in ...
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Italy's Monti resigns as budget law passes
MarketWatch
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti resigned Friday night, as expected, after the lower house of Parliament passed the 2013 budget law, news reports said. The move will allow Italian President Georgio Napolitano to dissolve ...
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Planned Parenthood drops appeal of South Dakota abortion law requiring ...
Washington Post
A law passed in 2011 required women in South Dakota to wait 72 hours before they are allowed to end a pregnancy — the longest waiting period in the country — but the provision had been temporarily blocked until the lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood ...
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Philippines: Milestone Law Criminalizes Forced Disappearances
Human Rights Watch
President Aquino should be commended for these two important human rights laws, but too often new laws in the Philippines are followed by inaction. Aquino now needs to demonstrate leadership to overcome the obstacles to these laws and ensure they are ...
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Human Rights Watch
Proposed law would stop broadband data caps that 'undermine innovation'
InfoWorld
In the name of promoting online innovation and protecting consumers, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) this week introduced a law that would restrict ISPs' use of data caps -- limits on how much customers can upload and download on their smartphones ...
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Hobby Lobby's Christian owners ask Supreme Court to block health law's ...
Washington Post
OKLAHOMA CITY — Hobby Lobby Stores asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to block part of the federal health care law that requires it to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills. Owned by a ...
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Above the Law's 2012 Lawyer of the Year Competition: The Finalists!
Above the Law
The year is quickly drawing to a close, but we have unfinished business to conduct here at Above the Law. Come on, people, we still have to crown our Lawyer of the Year for 2012. Thank you to everyone who responded to our call for nominations, in the ...
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Above the Law
Jerry Brown wants assurances from Washington on healthcare law
Los Angeles Times
Gov. Jerry Brown says he wants to continue to move aggressively to expand healthcare coverage in California under the federal law signed by President Obama in 2010, but wants to ensure Washington does not try to stick the state with the bill for ...
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Dealpolitik: NYSE Deal Challenges Conventional Wisdom on Delaware ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Every once in a while a deal comes along that raises questions about long-accepted conventional wisdom on corporate law. The buyout announced Thursday in which IntercontinentalExchange will acquire NYSE Euronext for cash and stock worth around ...
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Russian anger at energy law blocks EU summit progress
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russian anger at an EU energy law blocked progress at talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Union leaders on Friday. Putin, on his first visit to Brussels since his re-election as president in May, was greeted ...
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Dangerous duty: Law enforcement officers face daily peril on the roads
Las Cruces Sun-News
New Mexico State Police Officer Armando Reyes looks over his right shoulder Thursday to ensure a passing motorist isn't causing any immediate danger to him or the person in the vehicle he has pulled over on the frontage road south of Las Cruces.
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Mayor Francis Slay signs cell phone law
KSDK
LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has signed a law seeking to make it harder to resell stolen cell phones, a growing problem in St. Louis and elsewhere. Aldermen adopted the law late last month and the mayor announced the signing on Friday.
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Another Massacre's Gun Law Lesson
Daily Beast
He had been inspired to draft the legislation after a good friend of his son-in-law became one of eight killed in a mass shooting at a Hartford beer distributor in 2010. Further impetus came with the mass shooting in Arizona that left Rep. Gabby ...
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Daily Beast
Health law to boost data management companies
The Hill (blog)
The idea was to expand the low-income health insurance program to meet the bottom level of eligibility for the law's state exchanges, creating an umbrella of total coverage for people without other access to insurance. The Supreme Court's ruling to ...
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Adultery a felony under 'archaic' law, a fact brought to light in case of ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
gavel.jpg According to Michigan law, adultery is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. File Photo. PORTAGE, MI – In their appeal of an arbitrator's ruling last month that said Portage police Sgt. James Myers should not have been fired for ...
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Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Senate Passes Netflix-Backed Revision Of Privacy Law, Paving Way For ...
TechCrunch
The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that will make it easier for Netflix users to share what movies they have watched with their Facebook friends. The new legislation has already been approved by the House of Representatives, so it just needs the ...
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Supreme Court was right to strike down noise law
Orlando Sentinel
The Florida Supreme Court ruling that strikes down a ban on blaring car stereos should be ringing in the ears of every state lawmaker. The court didn't hit a sour note so much as the Florida Legislature crafted a bad bill that deserved to be found ...
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Judge blocks law changing city retirement system
U-T San Diego
A judge on Friday temporarily blocked a state law requiring most new San Diego city workers get Social Security benefits — a matter to be negotiated under the city's new retirement system. The ruling by San Diego County Superior Court Judge Joan M ...
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Seminar to help farmers, land owners with law, taxes, estate planning
Lima Ohio
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue Extension seminar to help farmers, landowners and professionals better understand key laws for farming, land ownership and business and estate transfer planning is scheduled for two Indiana locations in January and ...
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Italy's Monti to Resign Later Today After Budget Law Is Passed
Bloomberg
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will resign today after the budget bill gets final approval by parliament, a person familiar with the situation said. Monti will tender his resignation to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano after Parliament approves ...
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Sen. wants delay of med. marijana law
WWLP 22News
BOSTON (State House News Service) - Saying the state and its cities and towns are not prepared for a medical marijuana law, Quincy Democrat Sen. John Keenan on Friday urged other lawmakers to join him in trying to delay the law's implementation for ...
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New emergency manager law puts Roberts' role with DPS in question
Detroit Free Press
The state legislature has passed a new emergency manager law that would remove the board's authority. The governor is expected to sign it, but it would not go into effect until the end of March, leaving the board and Roberts to share power for the next ...
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Law and Order Lake County
Post-Tribune
A Lake County grand jury indicted a 23-year-old Gary man for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his mother's boyfriend. Deron Moten is charged with fatally shooting Brian K. Lunn, 27, while acting in sudden heat. Lunn, of 1160 Pennsylvania ...
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Local law enforcement responds to Conn. school shooting
Hickory Daily Record
HICKORY N.C.-- The shooting last week in Newtown, Conn. sparked conversation across the country about the safety of America's schoolchildren and the role of guns in our society. The National Rifle Association weighed in on the shooting on Friday. Wayne ...
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Law firm donates coats for veterans
YNN Hudson Valley
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Veterans received an early Christmas present from a local law firm. The Tully-Rinckey law firm donated 15 coats to the Albany Housing Coalition's Veteran's House. Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings, a veteran himself, says it's something vets ...
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Blogs13 new results for law
 
Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 becomes Law ...
By Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch President Barack Obama has now signed-into-law the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012, Pub. Law 112-211 (December 19, 2012). The new law contains two titles that provide domestic law required to ...
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
The Dutch Combat Piracy with New Downloader-Friendly Law - The ...
By Scott Roxborough
Instead of banning illegal downloads with a three-strikes rule, as France has done, the Netherlands will levy a "private copy fee" on the sale of all electronic devices.
Tech
Judge blocks Mo. insurance law on birth control - KansasCity.com
A federal judge on Friday blocked a new Missouri law that requires insurers to exclude birth control coverage for moral objectors, ruling that it conflicts with an insurance mandate under President Barack Obama's health care law.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
The Latest : Court blocks California law banning gay therapy | 89.3 ...
By AP
A federal appeals court has put the brakes on a first-of-its-kind California law that bans therapy that aims to turn gay minors straight.
Latest News | 89.3 KPCC
Law, diplomacy and doing nothing: managing the Senkaku/Diaoyu ...
By John Hemmings
Author: John Hemmings, Pacific Forum CSIS and LSE Changes in political leadership in Beijing and Tokyo do not bode well for bilateral ties. In Beijing,
East Asia Forum
An Elegant Case for Martial Law at Schools | Peace . Gold . Liberty
By tasmlab
That would be a dandy way to condition the next generation of citizens to get used to living under martial law. Twice a day during 15 developmental years, children would get to pass through a government check point with some person in a ...
Peace . Gold . Liberty
This Week in Law 192 | TWiT.TV
By Jeff Stewart
We look back on the biggest legal disasters and debacles of 2012.
TWiT.TV
Law School Anniversary Receives Congressional Recognition ...
By Leslie Cranford
U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Lubbock, entered official recognition of the Texas Tech University School of Law's 45th anniversary into the Congressional Record of the 112th Congress. Speaking Dec. 17 on the floor of the U.S. House of ...
Texas Tech Today
While law deters the rational, it has far less effect on the psychotic ...
By Speranza
by Charles Krauthammer. Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names ...
2.0: The Blogmocracy
20 Synonyms for "Law," "Order," or "Rule"
By Mark Nichol
Many words exist that refer to an expectation expressed by an authoritative person or entity, and sometimes it's difficult to distinguish such terms when one tries to convey a reference to a law, an order, or a rule. Here are some synonyms for ...
Daily Writing Tips
Law and Grace in 'Les Mis' – The Gospel Coalition Blog
By Mike Cosper
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables was considered a literary powerhouse long before Alain Boubeil and Claude-Michel Schonberg wrote their musical based on the story in 1980. But that production, translated into English a few years later, has ...
The Gospel Coalition Blog
Kirkwood Changes Discrimination Law « CBS St. Louis
By Justin Wingerter
The Kirkwood City Council voted unanimously for the change Thursday, joining about a dozen other local governments in Missouri to support legal rights for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people.
CBS St. Louis
School district increasing law enforcement patrols
Increased law enforcement are patrolling District 51 schools today in response to what the district calls "rumors." Social media posts Thursday indicated there was some sort of threat against the schools, putting already nervous parents on ...
KKCO - HomePage - Headlines

Web3 new results for law
 
Court blocks California law banning gay therapy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has put the brakes on a first-of- its-kind California law that bans therapy that aims to turn gay minors straight.
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Dee J. Kelly Law Library
Entrance to the law library after 8:00 p.m. Monday-Thursday and after 6:00 p.m. Friday-Sunday is restricted to faculty, students, alumni, and staff of the Texas ...
www.law.txwes.edu/DeeJ.KellyLawLibrary.aspx
US Ambassador Criticizes Russian Adoption Law
Lower house of parliament passed bill without debate, while protesters picketed building demanding that measure be voted down.
www.voanews.com/content/us-ambassador.../1569929.html


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