Jan 26, 2013

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Education Dept. Orders Sports Access for Disabled
New York Times
Forging Path to Starting Line for Younger Disabled Athletes (January 16, 2013). The guidance concerns Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a law that deals with the rights of disabled people who participate in activities that receive federal ...
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Iraqi lawmakers pass law to block Maliki from third term
Reuters
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament passed a law on Saturday intended to block Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki from a third term, as the Shi'ite premier faced growing pressure from mass Sunni street protests. Lawmakers from Sunni, Kurdish and Shi'ite ...
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Pumas would get protection from law
San Francisco Chronicle
Mountain lions that wander into backyards or other human-populated areas would get a reprieve from state game wardens under a bill introduced Friday by a Peninsula state senator. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would require state ...
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Texas Court hits open beaches law
Houston Chronicle
GALVESTON - The Texas Supreme Court dealt another blow Friday to the Texas Open Beaches Act in a case pitting beachfront property owners against the city of Surfside. The court overturned an appeals court ruling upholding Surfside's refusal to permit ...
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How Much Law School Is Enough?
New York Times
"Make Law Schools Earn a Third Year," by Daniel B. Rodriguez and Samuel Estreicher (Op-Ed, Jan. 18), argued that legal education should be reduced from the traditional three years to two. Even as a second-year law student (saddled with loans and still ...
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NATO protesters seek to overturn state's terrorism law
Chicago Tribune
Attorneys for three protesters accused of plotting to use Molotov cocktails to blow up political targets during the NATO summit last year in Chicago asked today that the state's terrorism law be declared unconstitutional. Brent Betterly, 24, Jared ...
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John Roberts bankrupts law students
Salon
Any privileged person in this country who wants to remain complacent about the social status quo would be well-advised not to consider exactly where his money comes from. Here's a small but telling example. Federal judges are required to file ...
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Salon
State House members' gun law views firm
San Francisco Chronicle
Washington --. Last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., may have shaken public opinion, but there's no evidence that it has changed the politics of gun control among California's representatives in Congress. In the seven ...
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Maricopa County seeks swift ruling on marijuana law
Arizona Daily Star
Comments. PHOENIX - Hoping for a speedy conclusion, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on Friday asked the Arizona Supreme Court to immediately hear his challenge to the state medical marijuana law. In a brief submitted to the high court Friday, ...
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South Sudan: Strengthening security and rule of Law
Sudan Tribune
January 25, 2013 - The Republic of South Sudan fought for independence from rest of the Sudan and dearly paid the price for freedom, self-governance and recognition as an independent state after resolution of recurring wars and conflicts that come to ...
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Immigration reform could add millions under Obama health law
The Hill (blog)
Comprehensive immigration reform could make millions of people suddenly eligible for assistance under President Obama's healthcare law, assuming a final deal paves the way for undocumented immigrants to receive papers. Illegal aliens are now ...
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Antigua set to bypass US copyright law with WTO green-lit media, software ...
RT
In a surprisingly legal move, the government of Antigua is planning to open a website selling media and software without paying any fees to American copyright holders. It comes after the US closed its market to Antiguan gambling companies. The small ...
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Judge passes on ruling in lemon law color dispute
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Whether a blue car is a comparable replacement for a defective red one under Wisconsin's lemon law is a question for a jury or an appeals court to decide, a Milwaukee County judge ruled Friday. Circuit Judge Paul Van Grunsven, therefore, denied Ford ...
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New state law makes it easier to carry guns into city-owned buildings
WDRB
(WDRB) -- A new state law has gone into effect that some say makes public buildings less secure. The law makes it easier to carry guns into places like the public library. The law, which is actually a revision of current law, passed the General ...
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Warren County supervisors don't like new gun law, nor way it was passed
Glens Falls Post-Star
But a comment by one supervisor about the state's method in changing the law, and how it differed from the procedures counties must follow to change laws, ended with a committee unanimously passing a resolution opposing both the law change and how ...
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Law Professor Challenges Supreme Court's Jurisdiction Over DOMA
Advocate.com
Because the Obama administration is no longer defending the antigay law, the Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over it, says Vicki C. Jackson. Moreover, Republican congressional leaders have no authority to defend it, she says.
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Lawmaker: Allow online law school grads to take Arizona bar exam
Cronkite News
An exception: Graduates of schools not accredited by the American Bar Association who have been actively practicing law in another state for at least five of the last seven years may also be recommended for practice of law. In practice, this rule ...
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Gun-law advocates march today in Ashland
Mail Tribune
Melissa Mitchell-Hooge was busy Friday morning doing typical mom chores: taking one of her sons to school, thinking that her cellphone battery would run out before she made another call and worrying that rain may put a damper on her ambitious Saturday ...
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Advisory Service for Solo Law Practices Confirms Attorneys are Choosing to ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Advisory Service for Solo Law Practices Confirms Attorneys are Choosing to Limit Firm's Earnings to $250,000 a Year. PRWeb. Published 2:45 pm, Friday, January 25, 2013. Photo: PRWeb. Tweet · Comments (0). Larger | Smaller. Printable Version ...
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DA recognizes outstanding law enforcement...
Daily Local News
WEST CHESTER — Law enforcement officials from agencies across Chester County gathered inside a Justice Center courtroom Friday for the annual District Attorney's Awards Ceremony. District Attorney Tom Hogan opened Friday's ceremony by noting the ...
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Man accused of practicing law without a license
Lincoln Journal Star
Clinton Brooks Jr., who is not a licensed attorney, allegedly accepted money to file a divorce and child custody case but failed to do so, Lincoln Police Capt. Danny Reitan said. The client demanded the money back, Reitan said, but Brooks, 46, did not ...
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Law enforcement officers kept very busy early Saturday throughout Douglas ...
Lawrence Journal World (blog)
Lawrence police conducted more than 10 vehicle stops between midnight and 5 a.m.. Those stops resulted in four arrests, three for OUI related offenses and one for driving without a valid driver's license. Douglas County deputies recorded one DWI ...
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State Law Aims to Reduce Accidental Drug Overdose
KIONrightnow.com
SALINAS, Calif. -- A new law called the "9-1-1 Good Samaritan" law is aimed at saving people's lives. It hopes to encourage more people to call 9-1-1 under drug overdose situations without the fear of getting in trouble. "It has been a problem. We do ...
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New state law allows guns into even more public places
WHAS 11.com (subscription)
A revision to a law that went into effect this month clarifies that firearms can be regulated by the state, which voids all local ordinances and restrictions. Metro council says other weapons, such as knives, are still banned from the metro hall. Other ...
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Health care law is a north star, not a 'death star'
STLtoday.com
The commentary by George Will Jan. 19 "Health care act's death star?" is meant to give undeserved credence to a flawed theory proposed by University of Missouri law professor Thomas A. Lambert. The theory, not a "plausible judgment" as Will states, was ...
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Pennsylvania Needs a Reasonable Marijuana Law
Yahoo! News (blog)
COMMENTARY | In November, voters in Washington and Colorado passed measures decriminalizing recreational marijuana use. Since 1996, 18 states have passed medical marijuana laws, including Colorado and Washington. Five of those states will ...
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Russia poised to pass sweeping anti-gay law
Salon
Approved by a vote of 388-1-1, the law — pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church – would make public events and sharing "propaganda" about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community with minors punishable by fines of up to ...
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Salon
Illinois State Terrorism Law's Constitutionality Challenged by Lawyers for NATO 3
Firedoglake
The motion filed by the lawyers for the NATO 3 alleges "lack of standards" in the law have made it possible to "arbitrarily demonize the defendants as 'terrorists' based on their political views and the political motivations and predilections of the ...
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Russia's anti-gay 'propaganda law' assault on freedom of expression
By Amnesty International
LGBTI activists protest outside Russia's Parliament as it backs a bill which outlaws the "propaganda of homosexuality among minors".
NRA-ILA | Massachusetts: Your Governor Wants to Personally ...
By NRA-ILA
Governor Deval Patrick (D) and anti-gun legislators in the Massachusetts General Court have wasted no time this legislative session trying to victimize and disarm law-abiding residents of the Bay State.
NRA-ILA News
Reed Smith can implead other law firms in defense of malpractice ...
Sued by a former client over its handling of a gin trade-name issue, Reed Smith has won a round in the ongoing litigation. The law firm can implead three other law firms that also allegedly provided bad advice to Millennium Import concerning ...
ABA Journal Top Stories
Missouri State Lawmaker Proposes Law Requiring Parents to Notify ...
By Fox and Friends
The gun control debate has prompted all sorts of new proposals since last month's Sandy Hook school shootings. A Missouri state lawmaker is now raising some eyebrows by proposing a law that requires parents to notify their children's ...
Fox News Insider
Traitors? Mississippi Trying to Skip Federal Law - YouTube
By TheYoungTurks
"A pair of Republican lawmakers in Mississippi have proposed a bill to keep the federal government in its place, and laying out a plan to create a Joint Legi...
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Mexico's climate law puts new president under spotlight - Point Carbon
SAO PAULO/LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Mexico's much-lauded climate change program risks being made ineffective less than a year after coming into force, legislators and observers warned after the government scaled back ...
Point Carbon - News
Law Students Win Moot Court Regional Competition :: Texas Tech ...
By Leslie Cranford
Texas Tech University School of Law team won the regional Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Black Law Students Association Convention in Dallas. Texas Tech's team of second-year students Deniz ...
Texas Tech Today
Surprise: Law Professor Misinterprets Supremacy Clause – Tenth ...
By jim kearney
Sam is a constitutional law professor at the University of Denver. One would think that if someone was a law professor that they would actually know and understand the law. Or in this case, a constitutional law professor – who should then ...
Tenth Amendment Center Blog
Australian goat fought the law… and the goat won – Erin Burnett ...
By cnnleinzvales
A judge rules that Australians can eat all the flowers they want. Erin Burnett reports...
Erin Burnett OutFront -
Welfare Lottery Ban | North Carolina Law Banning Lottery | Mediaite
By Matt Wilstein
If you're living on welfare in North Carolina, you may soon be out of luck when it comes to the lottery. Raleigh-Durham's ABC affiliate WTVD-TV is reporting that lawmakers in that state are proposing legislation that would bar people on welfare ...
Mediaite
Daniel Halperin is Holder of First Martin D. Ginsburg Chair ...
January 25, 2013 — The event was, as Professor Stephen B. Cohen put it, "the second inauguration" Washington had seen in a week. This one was to install Visiting Professor Daniel Halperin as the first holder of Georgetown Law's Martin D.
Georgetown Law - News and Events
Appeals court slaps down former constitutional law prof | Opinion Blog
By Mike Hashimoto / Editorial Writer
So if you wait long enough, it turns out the Constitution matters. (For now, at least, at the circuit court level.) As The Associated Press phrased it: WASHINGTON — In an embarrassing setback for President Barack Obama, a federal appeals ...
Opinion Blog
Erin's Law will give victims a voice in Illinois : News ... - Khqa
By KHQA Newsdesk
Proponents say it helps give victims a voice and prevent future incidents of sexual assault and abuse.
Connect Tri-States - Local News

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Ireland won't ease drunken-driving law for farmers - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: DUBLIN (AP) — A license to drive drunk? Some small-town politicians think it's just the tonic for rural Ireland.
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Our new gun law: Rushed and wrong - NY Daily News
Lalor: New York's new gun control law, celebrated far and wide as the first major piece of state legislation enacted in the wake of the Newtown massacre, ...
www.nydailynews.com/.../new-gun-law-rushed-wrong-article-...
Professor inspires student to law enforcement career
ELKO — Bart Ortiz was recently named the Elko Police Department Officer of the Year. However, he hadn't realized his calling until he started studying at Great ...
elkodaily.com/.../article_c45dd2f0-677e-11e2-a803-001a4bcf...
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