Dec 4, 2012

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Judge blocks California's controversial gay therapy law
NBCNews.com (blog)
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors, but he limited the scope of his order to just the three ...
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Philadelphia law firm builds an alliance with a Chinese counterpart
Philadelphia Inquirer
TIANJIN, China - Three years ago, Gary Biehn, a partner with White & Williams in Philadelphia, wanted to expand his law firm's reach to this port city in northern China, an economic powerhouse that gets special attention from the country's central ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Myanmar Finalizing New Mining Law
Wall Street Journal
Reforms to the country's existing 1994 mining law are aimed at attracting more foreign direct investment to the Southeast Asian country's resources sector, coinciding with significant interest among foreign investors in Myanmar's mineral riches, which ...
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Federal health law touches off brouhaha in Tallahassee
The News-Press
TALLAHASSEE - The first meeting of a Senate select committee on the federal Affordable Care Act turned raucous Monday, with a group of speakers saying the state should not carry out the law --- and jeering Senate Minority Leader Chris Smith after he ...
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K&L Gates, Greenberg Traurig, Kirkland: Business of Law
Bloomberg
K&L Gates LLP and Australian firm Middletons agreed to combine as of Jan. 1. Middletons' 300 lawyers in four Australian offices will bring the firm, which will continue to be known as K&L Gates, to 2,000 lawyers in 46 offices on five continents. "By ...
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Australian motorcycle gang challenges criminal law in court
Reuters
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A motorcycle gang in Australia, where such groups have been targeted over violence and drug trafficking, has challenged the constitutionality of a law that would make it easier to declare them a criminal gang. Leaders of the Finks, ...
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Maine's gay marriage law to become effective Dec. 29, licenses could be issued ...
Washington Post
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine's voter-approved same-sex marriage law is going into effect on Dec. 29, and there's a possibility that some marriage licenses can be issued even though the date falls on a Saturday. The state's largest city is reviewing whether ...
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A Rebel Fighter Sees Islamic Law In Syria's Future
NPR
It's about 9 o'clock in the morning, and already it's been a long day for Abu Anas. He has lost two men to a sniper serving the Syrian regime. Four more have been injured. But Abu Anas walks with a striking calm through the bombed-out, ruined streets ...
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Column: Health-care law is still unpopular, unsustainable and vulnerable
LimaOhio.com
Republicans believed a Mitt Romney win would seal Obamacare's fate. Democrats — or rather, the lonely two-fifths of Americans who support the president's beleaguered health-care law — believed an Obama win would secure its future. Both sides were ...
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'Stand your ground' law flaws
Statesman Journal
The latest victim of Florida's "stand your ground" law was buried in Georgia on Saturday -- eight days after the vehicle he and three other black teens were sitting in was pumped full of bullets by a man who objected to their loud music. Cops say 45 ...
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Retired officers: Law changes could save military lives
The Virginian-Pilot
A group of senior retired generals and admirals are calling for Congress to amend a recent law that they say "dangerously interferes" with the ability of commanders to battle the epidemic of suicides among members of the military. Legislation added to ...
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California Law Barring Sexual Orientation Therapy Blocked
Bloomberg
By Joel Rosenblatt - 2012-12-04T05:42:06Z. A California law prohibiting mental health providers from attempting to change the sexual orientation of patients under the age of 18 was temporarily blocked by a federal judge until a lawsuit opposing it is ...
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Kirkland Tops List of Most Valuable Law Firms
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Frankly, it's not a question we've ever spent much time pondering. Why? Because law firms have traditionally been measured by their revenues and profits. Revenues generally reflect how much work a firm is getting, while profits generally reflect how ...
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Turner Prize 2012: Jude Law accuses government of "cultural vandalism"
Digital Spy
Law, who presented video artist Elizabeth Price with the £25,000 ($40,260) prize during a ceremony at London's Tate Britain, attacked the coalition's proposed English Baccalaureate (EBacc) for a lack of arts provision. Jude Law, Turner Prize ceremony ...
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Daily debate: How have predictions about Michigan's new helmet law panned ...
MLive.com
Consiglio is president of ABATE of Michigan, the main organization in the fight to lift Michigan's mandatory helmet law. Petterson is president of the pro-helmet group SMARTER, for Skilled Motorcyclist Association - Responsible, Trained and Educated ...
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MLive.com
Bel Air toughens noise law; introduces bill to allow food trucks
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Sound vibrations that cross property lines could be a potential violation of the Town of Bel Air's noise ordinance under legislation approved Monday night by the town commissioners, who introduced another ordinance that would permit food trucks and ...
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Baltimore Sun (blog)
Branstad backs 'strengthening' anti-bullying laws
UI The Daily Iowan
Gov. Terry Branstad on Monday said he supports tougher anti-bullying laws, and state proponents differ in their opinions of what actions the government should actually take. "[Measures] can be taken to strengthen and improve our law," the governor said ...
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Marital Equality Law Sparks Controversy
AllAfrica.com
Abidjan — The adoption by Côte d'Ivoire's parliament of a law on equality between legally married couples has sparked anger, especially among religious people. For them, this law will create more problems in the home than it will solve. Adopted on 21 ...
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Will environmental law be reformed?
Santa Maria Times
It's been 42 years since then-Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the landmark California Environmental Quality Act, an early victory for the nascent environmental protection movement that has since become a very powerful force in state and national politics.
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Law enforcement lays abandoned newborn to rest in Placer County
Sacramento Bee (blog)
December 3, 2012. Law enforcement lays abandoned newborn to rest in Placer County. Several members of the Placer County law enforcement community conducted a funeral service Wednesday for a newborn boy found in a trash bag over the summer.
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Rule of law crucial to China's stability, prosperity
Xinhua
BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Thirty years after China adopted the current version of its Constitution, the country is dedicated to promoting law-based governance in an all-around way. Notable achievements have been made in building China into a ...
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Law enforcement ready for Colorado cannabis impacts
Laramie Boomerang
After Colorado residents voted to legalize marijuana in November, local law enforcement agencies have been preparing to do the same, only more of it. "I anticipate we'll probably see an increase, but we'll handle those in the same manner as we have in ...
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Mass. Democrats shouldn't change laws on US Senate openings
Boston Globe
Over the past eight years, Democrats who control the Massachusetts Legislature twice changed the rules for filling a US Senate vacancy to favor their party. Changing them a third time to avoid a special election would be an act of epic political arrogance.
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New state law limits amount spent on teacher's gifts
WSFA
Monday, December 3, 2012 6:27 PM EST. Updated: Monday, December 3, 2012 6:32 PM EST. By Ronda Robinson - bio | email. It's still OK to give a teacher an apple, but a new state law limits the total amount you can spend on teacher's gifts per year.
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Law Enforcement Now Wants Wireless Carriers To Store Your Text Messages As ...
WebProNews
CNET reports that law enforcement groups have submitted a proposal to the US Senate asking them to pass a law that would require wireless carriers to Americans' text messages for two years. The groups argue that text messages, much like email, are ...
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The in-law balance
OCRegister
She has also become a national expert on mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships and is the author of "Mothers-in-law and Daughters-in-Law Say the Darndest Things." Her latest book is "Reluctantly Related," a true and catching title. "This is a ...
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Leading Shareholder Rights Law Firm Announces Name Change; Shares New ...
Sacramento Bee
3, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Robbins Umeda LLP, one of the nation's leading shareholder rights law firms, announced today that it will change its name to Robbins Arroyo LLP effective January 1, 2013. Co-founder Marc M. Umeda, who continues to serve the ...
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Exclusive: Law & Order: SVU Recruits True Blood's Denis O'Hare -- But There's ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
True Blood alum Denis O'Hare will guest-star on Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has learned, but this time he'll be answering to a different (read: higher) power than the Vampire Authority. The Tony winner will play Father Shea, a priest who is pulled ...
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Blogs12 new results for law
 
Judge blocks California's controversial gay therapy law - U.S. News
By Lisa Leff, The Associated Press
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors, but he limited the scope of his order to just the ...
Newsvine - U.S. News - Articles
Jude Law Now Available for All of Your Depression-Evaluation ...
If you stumble upon a Web site on which Jude Law is pushily marketing a psychopharmaceutical called Ablixa, do not be alarmed. The site is part of a viral marketing strategy for Law's upcoming movie, a psycho-thriller from Steven ...
VF Daily
Maine's Marriage Equality Law Becomes Effective December 29 ...
By Andy Towle
Maine's marriage equality law is effective December 29, according to a notice from Equality Maine: According to the Office of the Secretary of State, the certified election results for the state were signed off on by Gov. Paul LePage on...
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Threat to attack Netherlands parliament after blasphemy law rescinded
By Pamela Geller
With all the jihad in the world, a lot of things can be said of these killers, but no one can accuse of them of ..... intelligence. No one. I am not sure what all the fuss is about. Britain, for example, scrapped a blasphemy law in 2008, which had ...
Atlas Shrugs
Law firms: The priciest partnerships | The Economist
By R.L.G. | NEW YORK
HOW DO you value a company when you cannot look at its books? That was the dilemma facing American Lawyer, which writes about the business of law firms....
Schumpeter
Balkinization: Bringing the Books Back In: Tulsa Law Review's ...
By Ken Kersch
mdudziak at law.usc.edu. Joey Fishkin joey.fishkin at gmail.com. Heather Gerken heather.gerken at yale.edu. Mark Graber mgraber at law.umaryland.edu. Stephen Griffin sgriffin at tulane.edu. Bernard Harcourt harcourt at uchicago.edu ...
Balkinization
Kimberly Schlapman's Brother-in-Law Killed by Drunk Driver - The ...
By Stephen L. Betts
Capitol Nashville While Thanksgiving should have been a joyous celebration for Little Big Town's Kimberly Schlapman, the singer and her family w.
The Boot
Daily Kos: Anti gay therapy law tested
By rss@dailykos.com (trumpeter)
According to an article in today's Los Angeles Daily Journal (hidden behind a pay wall, of course), a California law that "prohibits licensed psychotherapists from counseling gay minors on how to become heterosexual" is facing a test.
California
Judge Temporarily Blocks Calif. Gay Therapy Law
A federal judge in California is temporarily prohibiting the state from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed therapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors.
KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
Law & Order: America's Star Mercenary protects Chinese investment ...
By Megan Eardley
Remember when Law & Order: Criminal Intent did a two-hour season premier on Erik Prince's anti-pirate private militia in Somalia? Prince (founder and frequent re-namer of the infamous mercenary company, Blackwater) became a celebrity ...
Africa is a Country
Attorneys General Oppose CCW Reciprocity Law « CBS Las Vegas
By Samantha Stone
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is one of ten who have asked U.S. Senate leadership to halt a federal concealed carry law that would allow permit holders to cross state lines.
CBS Las Vegas
Using the "Law" to Break the Law | Steve Deace
By jengreen
Back in the nineteenth century, Frederic Bastiat, author of a famous book called The Law, wrote the following words concerning what he termed "legal plunder": "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, ...
Steve Deace

Web5 new results for law
 
IRS aims to clarify investment income tax under healthcare law ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service has released new rules for investment income taxes on capital gains and dividends earned by ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-tax-irs-idUSBRE8B21HA2012120...
Live blog of opinions (Sponsored by Bloomberg Law) : SCOTUSblog
With the help of our reporter, Lyle Denniston, we will be live blogging as opinions are issued today. Once you see the window and our initial welcome, we ask ...
www.scotusblog.com/.../live-blog-of-opinions-sponsored-by-b...
When You Shouldn't Use Fitts's Law To Measure User Experience ...
This articles explains why mathematical formulas should be treated as tools, not as principles, to enrich user experience.
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Judge temporarily blocks Calif. gay therapy law - MSN News
The law bars licensed psychotherapists from trying to change the sexual orientations of gay minors.
news.msn.com/.../judge-temporarily-blocks-calif-gay-therapy-...
Dave Chappelle - Law N Order - Jury Service - YouTube
Dave Chappelle - Law N Order - Jury Service. WILDEEZY. This video is unavailable. This video contains content from Viacom, who has blocked it on copyright ...
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