Jan 3, 2013

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Israeli Law Bans Skinny, BMI-Challenged Models
ABC News
A law that regulates people's body weight would probably get little traction in Congress, not to mention U.S. courts. But not so here in Israel, where a new law took effect Jan. 1 that aims to prevent fashion models from losing weight to the detriment ...
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ABC News
'Fiscal Cliff' bill signed into law via autopen
Washington Post
KAILUA, Hawaii — The hard-fought legislation that allowed the United States to avoid the "fiscal cliff" was signed into law Wednesday by "autopen," the White House said, less than a day after being approved in a contentious vote in the House of ...
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Washington Post
New vote sought for Illinois gay marriage law
Chicago Tribune
The religious leaders further warned that, while the law exempts religious institutions from having to consecrate same-sex marriages, the proposed legislation does not protect their rights to freely exercise their religious beliefs because they would ...
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New Law Points to Philippine Church's Waning Sway
ABC News
Twenty-six years after Roman Catholic leaders helped his mother marshal millions of Filipinos in an uprising that ousted a dictator, President Benigno Aquino III picked a fight with the church over contraceptives and won a victory that bared the ...
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Judge Regretfully Rules Law Doesn't Require US Government to Explain Its ...
Huffington Post
It's rare to come across a judicial opinion that hits the nail on the head so precisely you want to quote whole chunks of it. But U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon's ruling Wednesday in a Freedom of Information Act case brought by the ACLU and ...
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Health Care Law Provisions Taking Effect in 2013
KLAS-TV
LAS VEGAS - The beginning of the year means new facets of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare are now in effect. Doctors are preparing for 2014 when the majority of the healthcare law takes effect. That's when penalties begin to set in for those who ...
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Egypt Election Law to Be Reviewed by Constitutional Court
Bloomberg
MENA earlier cited the premier as saying the law would be finished within 15 days from now. There was no immediate explanation for the timeframe change. The country's election commission announced Dec. 25 that the constitution had been passed in a ...
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The Natural Law Scam
Religion News Service
Faced with the prospect that Illinois will become the next state to legalize same-sex marriage, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago is bringing out the big Catholic rhetorical gun: Natural Law. It needs to be spiked. "Marriage comes to us from nature ...
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Religion News Service
'Cliff' deal extends law aiding distressed homeowners
Arizona Republic
The deal approved by Congress this week to avert the "fiscal cliff" also extends by one year a 2007 law aimed at helping financially distressed homeowners. The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which President Barack Obama is expected to sign this ...
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Justin Bieber photographer: Experts say new paparazzi laws not needed
Los Angeles Times
As Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus called for stronger anti-paparazzi measures after a photographer trying to snap a picture of Bieber's Ferrari was killed Tuesday, experts said the laws already on the books are enough -- they just need to be enforced ...
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Financial reform battle continues over Dodd-Frank law
Washington Post
In the two years since Congress passed the far-reaching regulatory overhaul, lawmakers have railed against the law for either not going far enough to reform Wall Street or being too burdensome to the industry. Republicans have sought to dismantle ...
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Skadden Arps, Linklaters, Hughes Hubbard: Business of Law
Bloomberg
The law firm, based in New York, ranked No. 1 last year with $294.5 billion in transactions, up from $287.4 billion reported in 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The firm participated in 13 percent of global mergers and acquisitions by ...
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Law Schools Cost Too Much, Teach Too Little
National Review Online
So argues Lawrence Velvel, the dean of Massachusetts School of Law in this essay posted on Minding the Campus. Legal education has been badly warped by what economists call rent-seeking — that is, the way special-interest groups (in this case, the ...
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State law change keeps principal evaluations under wraps
Wisconsin State Journal
A change in state law creating a new teacher and principal evaluation system also exempts those evaluations from public disclosure, even though the public has previously had access to principal evaluations. Open government advocates were unaware of ...
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Dallas and Houston law firms draw global suitors
Dallas Morning News
More than a dozen global law firms are approaching elite Dallas and Houston law firms in an effort to break into the Texas market. Leaders at six of the largest Texas-based law firms confirmed in interviews with the Texas Lawbook that they have been ...
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Grapevine: Law professor blasts the Constitution
Fox News
Sunday's New York Times saw an op-ed called "Let's Give Up on the Constitution." The article was written by Louis Michael Seidman -- get this -- a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University. The piece opens up -- quote -- "As the nation ...
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Local law enforcement officials see drop in juvenile crime
Boston.com
Local law enforcement officials say they are pleased with the reduction in juvenile crime, but they also point out there is more work to be done. While it's difficult to tie the drop in crime to any specific initiative, officials in some communities ...
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Fiscal Cliff: Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Into Law
Huffington Post
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while preserving tax cuts for most American households. The bill, which averts a looming fiscal cliff that had threatened to plunge the nation back ...
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Brown appeals injunction against gay-conversion law
Los Angeles Times
Jerry Brown on Wednesday appealed a court injunction that has blocked enforcement of a new law that prohibits providing gay minors with therapy aimed at converting them to being heterosexual. The notice of appeal was filed on behalf of Brown and the ...
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New Congress takes office Thursday, will tackle old Congress' leftovers
CNN
President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill to avert the fiscal cliff, a deal worked out after lengthy, grinding friction between Democrats and Republicans. The political theatrics kept Americans and people around the world on pins and needles ...
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NY County Defies Law, Refuses To Release Gun Permit Info For Controversial ...
TechCrunch
After a newspaper's Google Map of New York gun permit owners sparked a political firestorm, officials in Putnam County say they will refuse to give up public gun permit ownership information for its residents. "In Putnam County I have over 11,000 ...
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leash law vote may be months away
Newsday
A plan to alter the leash law in rural Southold -- keeping dogs off beaches when a lifeguard is on duty, but allowing them access at other times -- likely will not be voted on for several months. The town board on Jan. 29 will hold a formal public ...
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Newsday
Obama signs "fiscal cliff" bill into law
WTSP 10 News
The "fiscal cliff" law passed so quickly, many in Congress never realized it was full of special interest tax breaks, reports CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews. One allows auto racetrack owners to speed up their tax deductions. Another tax write off ...
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Law & Disorder: Apparent murder-suicide in Clay County condo
Florida Times-Union
Law & Disorder: Apparent murder-suicide in Clay County condo. Posted: January 3, 2013 - 5:20am | Updated: January 3, 2013 - 8:12am. Map View. Javascript is required to view this map. 3750 Silver Bluff Road, Orange Park, Florida. Related coverage ...
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Graduate Seminar on Natural Law
First Things (blog)
The Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra and the Social Trends Institute have scheduled a two-day Seminar on Natural Law and Public Reason for graduate students. The seminar will be run by advanced graduate students in the ...
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Fiscal cliff tax law eases minds of small business owners
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago area small business owners expressed relief Wednesday over the fiscal cliff deal struck by Congress New Year's Day. "I think it's good news, especially for my customers, and it's good news for me," said John Meyer, owner of BJ's Market & Bakery ...
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'Fiscal cliff' law includes commuter benefit
Chicago Tribune
Fare hikes set to begin this year on the CTA and Metra will be offset somewhat by a provision included in new federal "fiscal cliff'' legislation that allows many public transit riders to shield up to $240 a month in work-related commuting costs from ...
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Questions linger over Mass. medical marijuana law
NECN
The law allows for the possession and use of up to a 60-day supply of marijuana for people with cancer, Parkinson's disease, AIDS and other conditions approved by a doctor. Though the law went into effect Tuesday, the Massachusetts Department of Public ...
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A Catalyst for Action: Caribbean Dialogue on Rule of Law and Gender-Based ...
New Europe (blog)
On the heels of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), which ran from November 25 through December 10, the United States engaged with regional partners to spur action against GBV within our own hemisphere. Gender-based ...
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Blogs13 new results for law
 
'Fiscal Cliff' Bill Signed Into Law by President Obama's…Autopen ...
By Jason Howerton
HONOLULU (TheBlaze/AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans and provides about $76 billion in special interest tax credits, while preserving Bush-era tax cuts for most American ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Obama signs fiscal cliff bill into law – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
By jasonmooncnn
President Barack Obama has signed into law the bill to avert the fiscal cliff. The new law preserves the Bush-era tax cuts for individuals earning less than $400000 and couples making less than $450000 per year, and extends unemployment ...
This Just In
Academic highlight: Clashing perspectives in the Harvard Law ...
By Amanda Frost
The Supreme Court's 2011 Term captured the nation's attention as almost never before. Decisions upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, analyzing the role of the states in regulating immigration, and ...
SCOTUSblog
Law of unintended consequences – fuel tax designed to lower air ...
By Anthony Watts
Another application of the Grecian government formula blows up in their faces. From EuroNews: Smog hits Athens as cash-strapped residents choose fire over fuel Bad news for austerity-stricken Greeks is also proving to be bad news for the ...
Watts Up With That?
India debates naming new law after gang-rape victim | The Raw Story
By Jason Burke, The Guardian
A call to name a new law targeting sexual violence in India after an anonymous woman who died last weekend following a gang rape has provoked a fierce debate in the country, where new details of the violent assault continue to provoke ...
The Raw Story
Marshal Law Five Hundred Page Hardcover Back Under Ten Quid ...
By Rich Johnston
The Amazon Glitch has glitched again and this fifty dollar collection of Marshal Law comics by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill from DC Comics can be preordered for ten pounds on Amazon.co.uk, less than shops will pay for it. So whether you are ...
Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies...
Panty Creamer Of The Day: Jude Law In Maui | Dlisted
By Michael K
Panty Creamer Of The Day: Jude Law In Maui. I know your nipples knobs are barely hanging on to your areolas since you almost rubbed them off while eye drooling at those pictures of a topless Sean Penn looking like Tarzan's drunk uncle ...
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Obama signs 'fiscal cliff' bill into law | Economy | GMA News Online ...
Washington — President Barack Obama has signed into law the contentious compromise bill hammered out in Congress, narrowly averting the US fiscal cliff of tax hikes and drastic, immediate cuts in spending, the White House said early ...
GMA News Online
Passage of New Law Enhances Our Journalists' Reach, Improves ...
By sorr
Washington, DC – The Broadcasting Board of Governors today hailed a new law that updates one of the founding statutes of public diplomacy in the United States, a change that the Board has long supported and had incorporated into its ...
BBG
Plaintiffs want Alabama immigration law challenge to move forward ...
By Brian Lawson | blawson@al.com
The HICA plaintiffs told the court they plan to use the discovery process to determine how the immigration law, known as HB56, is being carried out in Alabama.
Real-Time News from Huntsville
One year later, law enforcement still looking for accused murder ...
By Jeremy Ross
MILWAUKEE -- One year later, law enforcement continues to look for 30-year-old Jose Louis Discua-Bados in connection with the brutal murder of his estranged wife, Dayanna Garcia.24-year-old Garcia was murdered in broad daylight on ...
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New North Carolina law treats cooking oil theft like any other crime ...
By Meghan Sapp
In North Carolina, new legislation has gone into effect that treats stealing used cooking oil as any other theft. Under the new law, anyone caught stealing used cooking oil will be charged with a misdemeanor and anyone caught with over ...
Biofuels Digest
Authorities Serve Search Warrant at Former Law Office of Attorney ...
A Seattle attorney accused of raping several massage therapists has voluntarily provided a DNA sample and a search warrant has been served on his former law firm. The warrant focused on Danford Grant's parking records to determine ...
ABA Journal Daily News

Web3 new results for law
 
More Than 400 New Laws Take Effect Tuesday
A number of states will ring in the new year with a batch of new regulations -- more than 400 nationwide.
www.cnbc.com/.../More_Than_400_New_Laws_Take_Effect...
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2013?
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2013? Under the law that existed until 1978 … Works from 1956. Works that could have entered the ...
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2013/pre-1976
Under Health Law, Employers Must Insure Workers' Dependents ...
Large employers who are subject to the health overhaul law's requirement to provide insurance or pay a fee must also extend coverage to their workers' ...
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424127887323984704578208250...


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