Jan 29, 2013

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Chinese Activists Demand Clarity on Domestic Violence Law
New York Times (blog)
BEIJING — Li Yan, a woman from Sichuan Province who was convicted of killing her abusive husband, faces execution. As activists in China fight to save her life, three women last week delivered a petition with more than 12,000 signatures to the ...
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Can Pro-Gun Legislators Make It a Crime to Enforce the Law?
The Atlantic
While White House officials and federal lawmakers have scrambled in the past month to introduce legislation designed to restrict certain kinds of weapons or ammunition, or to limit the broad immunity the gun industry was given during the Bush ...
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The Atlantic
Virginia To Repeal 'Living In Sin' Law
NPR
In Virginia, it is illegal to be an unmarried couple in the same home. Since the 1870s, the state has banned "lewd and lascivious cohabitation." Now a state Senate committee has approved a measure to repeal that law. Share. 2Facebook; Twitter; Email ...
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Tatum, Zeta-Jones and Law get 'Side Effects'
USA TODAY
Tatum, Zeta-Jones and Law get 'Side Effects'. Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jude Law talk about working with director Steven Soderbergh on his new psychological thriller, 'Side Effects.' (Jan. 29). Post to Facebook. Tatum, Zeta-Jones and Law ...
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Locked into your phone
Los Angeles Times
The courts have turned back some of the more egregious efforts, such as the attempt by a printer manufacturer to use the anti-circumvention law to block a rival supplier of ink cartridges. But the government's flub on the cellphone issue shows that it ...
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The Economist Rewrites International Law and Gets the Senkakus Wrong
National Review Online (blog)
I have to give The Economist credit for focusing as much attention as it has on the Sino-Japanese spat over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. The two sides, as I just wrote for NRO, are sliding dangerously (and negligently) toward war, probably through ...
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Tactics change in health law fight
Washington Times
In stark contrast to the last congressional session, Republican lawmakers have introduced only a handful of bills to strike down or dismantle President Obama's health care law in the first weeks of the new Congress — the latest indication that the ...
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Washington Times
Remarks by the President Before Meeting with Law Enforcement Officials
The White House (blog)
THE PRESIDENT: Well, Vice President Biden and I just want to thank the police chiefs and sheriffs who are here today representing law enforcement officials all across the country who obviously share our deep concern about issues of gun safety and how ...
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Iranian Council Passes Election Law
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
A Guardians Council spokesman said that according to the new law, votes will be organized by an election executive council made up of representatives from the three branches of power as well as seven "national, political, social, and cultural" figures.
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Tunisia's Salafis: 'A Danger' Or Preachers Of God's Law?
NPR
The uprisings of the Arab Spring unleashed a new political force in the region — Salafis, ultraconservative Muslims who aspire to a society ruled entirely by a rigid form of Islamic law. Their models are the salaf, or ancestors, referring to the ...
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NPR
New law would make car leases less attractive
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The massive tax bill signed into law in 2012 eliminates both the initial sales tax and the birthday tax for car buyers and replaces them with a single title tax when the vehicle is purchased. That tax will be 6.5 percent as of March 1, and it could go ...
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Law bans unlocking of cell phones
San Francisco Chronicle
But the Library of Congress, tasked with carving out exceptions every few years under the law, has excluded unlocking cell phones several times because, well, it has nothing to do with copyrighted works! Nevertheless, under pressure from carriers and ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Number of law school applicants declining
Nashville Business Journal
If that trend continues through the rest of this academic year, the number of people applying to the 201 law schools accredited by the American Bar association will have fallen by 38 percent since its peak in 2008, the Law Journal said. The number of ...
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Supreme Court Justice Scalia offers perspective on the law at SMU lecture
Dallas Morning News
"The judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge," said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (right), with law professor Bryan A. Garner on Monday. By TASHA TSIAPERAS. TASHA TSIAPERAS The Dallas Morning News. Staff Writer ...
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Dallas Morning News
Jude Law Reveals Two Different Eras In Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel
Cinema Blend
There are some things we have come to expect from Wes Anderson movies: quirky characters, deadpan dialogue, vivid color pallets, and nostalgic and dreamy soundtracks. However, the plot details from one movie from the next are impossible predict.
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Cinema Blend
Committee keeps law allowing people to sue others for breaking up their marriage
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Adelstein tried for the third time in the past 11 years Tuesday to repeal South Dakota's "alienation of affection" law, which allows individuals to sue a third party for breaking up their marriage. Such a measure, Adelstein said, was archaic and ...
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Obama asks law enforcement officials to push gun proposals
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Monday met with police chiefs from around the country -- including three from communities affected by mass shootings -- as part of his effort to build support for the gun control measures he wants to push through ...
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2012: It Was a Very Good Year (For Law Firm Revenues)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Against all expectations, in 2012 big law firms actually had what Ol' Blue Eyes would have called a very good year, according to a preliminary survey out from Wells Fargo Private Bank's Legal Specialty Group. LBers know that such surveys are typically ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Snyder puts right-to-work law before high court, making other challenges moot
Detroit Free Press
"The uncertainty over the law's impact upon state civil servants that protracted litigation would create would be very divisive and would not serve the interests of judicial economy," Snyder wrote. But opponents of the bill said Snyder's request was a ...
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Lawmakers plan to re-write law barring sex offenders from using social media
Journal and Courier
Reacting to a federal court ruling last week that struck down a state law barring most sex offenders from using social networking sites, two Indiana lawmakers said Monday that they are introducing a modified law to reinstate the ban. Senators Jim ...
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Health care law means free clinics have to accept payments
Kansas City Star
Free health clinics around the Kansas City area, like many across the country, are shedding their "free" designation and preparing to accept payment from most patients as they adapt to the federal health care law. The shift will be a big one ...
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Kansas City Star
Kaye Scholer Latest Large Law Firm to Shift Back-Office Operations to Less ...
The American Lawyer
In a move that makes it the latest large law firm to rein in expenses by moving back-office jobs to a small city, Kaye Scholer said Monday it will relocate some 100 support staffers from a range of departments to a new standalone operations center in ...
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Law firm with local office forms new firm
Birmingham business Journal
The new firm, Hagwood Adelman Tipton PC, has practice areas in alternative dispute resolution; construction law; workers' compensation; risk management; rental purchase law; long-term care and aging services; general and professional liability; and ...
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Law firm for the poor outgrows its old space
Philadelphia Inquirer
The nonprofit law firm, which provides civil legal help for the poor, serves about 14,500 low-income city residents annually. CLS said that its current offices were not up to par and lacked access for people with disabilities. With financial backing ...
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Dan Douglas Bill Would Repeal Prevailing Wage Law
Arkansas Business Online
LITTLE ROCK - Wage requirements for laborers working on some public construction projects amount to a "hidden fee" that ends up getting pushed onto taxpayers, a Republican lawmaker said after introducing legislation Monday to eliminate the requirement.
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Egyptian protesters defy emergency law
Aljazeera.com
Egypt's senate on Monday ratified a law that would grant the armed forces powers of arrest. In Port Said, however, Al Jazeera's Rageh reported that the army was not enforcing the curfew. "Thousands poured into the streets when the curfew went into ...
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Aljazeera.com
Law Enforcement Rarely Uses Search Warrants in Getting Twitter Data
New York Times (blog)
United States law-enforcement agencies by and large do not establish probable cause or obtain a search warrant from an impartial judge before they seek information about a Twitter user, the company said Monday in its second transparency report.
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Humanitarian law, ethics, and journalism in Syria
CPJ Press Freedom Online
A small number of journalists reporting from Syria have recently interviewed prisoners of war under highly coercive circumstances. In doing so, they have ignored the protections that are due to prisoners under international humanitarian law, or IHL.
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CPJ Press Freedom Online

Blogs13 new results for law
 
Jude Law Talks GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, SHERLOCK HOLMES ...
By Matt Goldberg
Jude Law talks about Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel, and provides brief updates on Sherlock Holmes 3, Queen of the Desert, and Dom Hemingway.
Collider
New Illinois Law Gives Schools Information About Student Arrests ...
By Justin Wingerter
"You probably wouldn't find many educators who would say that it's not relevant to know that a 14-year-old spent the weekend in custody."
CBS St. Louis
NRA gutted 2007 mental health registry law - Balloon Juice
By Kay
We could have reduced school shooting incidents by at least one this past year without any new law at all if gun owners would simply take personal responsibility and properly secure their home arsenals. Why are their stockpiled weapons ...
Balloon Juice
Consultation on patent law harmonisation - Typepad
By BL Web Editor
The UK IPO is inviting interested parties to complete a detailed questionnaire (36 pages including notes) as part of a consultation on patent law harmonization. It is called the Tegernsee Experts Group – Informal Consultation on International ...
Steve van Dulken's Patent blog
Lautenberg's Latest Law: Congress Considers Chemical Plant Safety
By Kathleen Hurley
A report released last Tuesday (January 22, 2013) cites data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and concludes something disturbing. The report finds that finds 12440 facilities across the United States put citizens ...
Environmental Management & Energy News
Law enforcement leadership academy starts
Members of the Hendricks County Sheriff's Department, Carmel Police Department and Hamilton County Sheriff's Department are participating in addition to IMPD.
News | WISH TV
IMAO » Blog Archive » Librarian Law Maker
By Frank J.
Do you know there is a Librarian of Congress? And apparently she can pass laws! So if you're in Congress and the librarian says, "Shh!" you better listen because she can have you executed. So what law did the librarian somehow make?
IMAO
MdVLA Art Law Clinic - Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
By msemmes
MdVLA Art Law Clinic: Feb. 9 and 23, March 9 and 23, April 6 and 28. Artists with Legal Questions Wanted! MdVLA is hosting six FREE legal clinics this winter/spring. Drop by for a 25-minute sessions with one of MdVLA's volunteer attorneys ...
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Canada News Centre - WhatsApp's violation of privacy law partly ...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (College bescherming persoonsgegevens, (CBP)) today released their findings from a collaborative investigation into the handling of personal ...
ExcitingAds! Canada
WhatsApp violates privacy law says Stoddart - Page 1 - Government
The popular mobile messaging app forces users to provide access to their entire address book, according to a joint Canadian and Dutch investigation - Page 1.
Daily IT Newswire
Phew! Kentucky's 'God plaque' law won't be used to jail atheists
By Barry Duke
DESPITE the fact that good ol' Kentucky is so devout that it felt compelled to introduce a "God plaque" law to protect its security, Kentucky atheist Ricky Smith recently succeeded...
The Freethinker
Local Law Firm Launches Estate Planning Website - WABI TV5
A local law firm is making getting your affairs in order as easy as a few clicks on the keyboard. Rudman Winchell in Bangor has launched the state's first website for on-line estate planning. ...
WABI News
The AP Pushes For Federal Gun Registration Law | Sweetness & Light
By Steve
After gun crime, weapon history takes time to find. By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | January 29, 2013. WASHINGTON (AP) — In the fictional world of television police dramas, a few quick clicks on a computer lead investigators to the owner of a gun ...
Sweetness & Light

Web4 new results for law
 
Law Enforcement Officials Discuss Keeping Our Communities Safe ...
President Obama and Vice President Biden continue the conversation about reducing gun violence in a meeting with law enforcement officials.
www.whitehouse.gov/.../law-enforcement-officials-discuss-kee...
American Twitter Vs. French Law | IdeaFeed | Big Think
Writer Olga Khazan discusses the impact of a recent French court ruling requiring Twitter to disclose personal information of anyone tweeting hate speech.
bigthink.com/.../american-twitter-vs-french-law?...
Tiny Appalachian coal town passes gay rights law
Vicco, Ky., is believed to be the smallest municipality in the United States to enact an ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
news.msn.com/.../tiny-appalachian-coal-town-stands-passes-ga...
Law makes BCI protect criminals | The Newark Advocate ...
Ohioans who believe they can rely on criminal background checks to warn them against hiring dangerous employees might be wrong.
www.newarkadvocate.com/.../Law-makes-BCI-protect-crimina...


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