Jan 9, 2013

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Why Airbnb Doesn't Worry When its Users Break the Law
Huffington Post
Since May of 2011, the vacation rental website Airbnb has been openly flouting a New York City law stating that it is illegal to rent full apartments for less than 30 days. It's a pretty basic law that the city worked closely with state legislators to ...
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Law requiring yellow taxicabs be wheelchair accessible takes step forward in ...
New York Daily News
A proposed law mandating all yellow taxicabs be wheelchair-accessible is headed for a City Council committee vote — a development one leading advocate called "historic." Councilman Oliver Koppell on Tuesday invoked a rarely cited procedural rule ...
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New York Daily News
In Colorado, a Drinking Law That Encourages Family Time
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Recreational use of marijuana is now legal in Colorado, but you have to be 21 or older. But younger Colorado adults — aged 18 to 20 — may be allowed to drink alcohol at bars and restaurants under a new proposed measure, the AP reported. The bill ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Sport-Russia toughens law against match-fixers
Yahoo! Sports
"It's a very serious document which gets the law-enforcement officials involved in solving this problem first-hand," Mutko, who also heads the 2018 World Cup local organising committee, was quoted as saying by local outlet R-Sport on Wednesday. However ...
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Watchdog says tax law too complex for most filers
San Francisco Chronicle
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the nation's tax law is so thick and complicated that businesses and individuals spend more than 6 billion hours a year complying with filing requirements. That's the equivalent of 3 million people working ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Italy's Election Law Makes Senate Race Tight: Highlights
Bloomberg
Italy's election law will make it difficult for any coalition, including the center-left bloc led by Democratic Party Secretary Pier Luigi Bersani, leading in all opinion polls, to win an outright majority in both houses of parliament. Under Italy's ...
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Legendary Harvard Law Professor Gives The Ultimate Verdict On Whether The ...
Business Insider
Yes. It is. The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin solution to get around the debt ceiling is unambiguously legal, according to Laurence Tribe, the constitutional law legend at Harvard Law School. Ryan Cooper at Washington Monthly got him on record: I don't ...
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'Holes' Are Seen in Kendra's Law
Wall Street Journal
"Clearly there are holes that exist today in Kendra's Law, and we must address them now," said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., the president of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York. In a letter on Tuesday, Mr. Vance ...
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The Empty Words of the Boy Scout Law
Huffington Post
I think the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America has abandoned its right to claim these words that are part of their "law," with their actions both today and in the past. The failure to protect boys from sexual predators in their midst, the dogged ...
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Governor signs new law outlawing cellphone use for teen drivers
Petoskey News-Review
Starting in late March, teen drivers with a probationary license will no longer be able talk on a cellphone while driving. Gov. Rick Snyder signed "Kelsey's Law" Tuesday making it a civil infraction for teens to be talking on the phone behind the wheel ...
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David Gregory's Law
legal Insurrection (blog)
The decision on whether anyone should be prosecuted after "Meet the Press" host David Gregory appeared to hold a high-capacity ammunition magazine on national television now belongs to the District's Office of the Attorney General, authorities said ...
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legal Insurrection (blog)
The Law of the Sea, a Litigator's Dream
The National Interest Online
This includes pressing for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). It's a bad idea, as the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea has helpfully reminded Americans. LOST is an omnibus agreement covering seabed mining, navigation, fishing ...
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The National Interest Online
Tax law's complexity is No. 1 tax problem
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's tax law is so big and complicated that businesses and individuals spend more than 6 billion hours a year complying with filing requirements. That's the equivalent of 3 million people working full-time, year-round. As a ...
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Dorn lobbies for amendment to charter school law
The Seattle Times (blog)
Dorn has repeatedly said he thinks the law, which voters passed in November, violates Washington's constitution because it calls for the creation of a new, appointed charter school commission that would authorize and supervise charter schools. Dorn ...
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New General Assemby To Tackle Concealed Carry Law In Illinois
CBS2 Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — In Springfield and Washington, there will be talks on Wednesday centered on the issue of gun control. Vice President Joe Biden will talk with gun violence victims and gun safety organizations, CBS 2′s Susanna Song reports.
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New state gun law racks up concern
Hometownlife.com
Under the previous law, residents who wanted to purchase a pistol were required to apply for a license to purchase at their local police department. A pistol is described by law as anything with a 15-inch or less barrel and a pistol grip, said Kathy ...
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What the New Tax Law Really Means and New "Tax Price Points"
Forbes
The "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012" (ATRA) is now tax law. A week ago I couldn't have told you what the bill even proposed … because there was no bill. This new law wasn't even passed by Congress until the year following its name. I thought the ...
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25 legislators hear feedback from residents Voter ID law criticized at Wichita ...
Kansas.com
The state's voter identification law came under fire Tuesday night at a legislative forum where ordinary Kansans got a chance to tell lawmakers what they want from the session that begins next week. The open-mike session drew a crowd of about 100 ...
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New Michigan law makes driving while using cellphone civil infraction for some ...
WDIV Detroit
Rick Snyder signs Kelsey's Law Tuesday Gov. Rick Snyder signed Kelsey's Law to help protect Michigan's young, inexperienced drivers and other motorists. The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Howard Walker, bans cellphone use for anyone driving on a level 1 ...
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WDIV Detroit
Fenton aldermen revisit doctor prescription law
STLtoday.com
In 2011, two Fenton stores were in the top five for sales of pseudoephedrine in Missouri, according to National Precursor Log Exchange, a system used by law-enforcement agencies to monitor the sales of these medications. Zephrex D is a new product for ...
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New law slows Granite City scrap metal business, dealers say
STLtoday.com
The owner of Dollar a Day Recycling at 3133 Missouri Ave. and the yard manager of Shapiro Brothers/PSC at 1463 16th St. both say business is down as a result of the new law. "(Sellers) surely don't like it. They've got to go somewhere they don't go by ...
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Controversial 1872 rape law under scrutiny
Today's THV
SACRAMENTO, CA (CNN) -- A recent court case is shedding light on a legal loophole that protects some rapists who prey on unmarried women. It's happening in 2013 because of a law was written in 1872. Now, California lawmakers who have allowed the ...
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Palo Alto may change affordable-housing law
Silicon Valley Business Journal
The city of Palo Alto will debate changing its affordable-housing law that gives developers incentives. According to Palo Alto Online, the "density bonus" law will be debated at a 6pm Wednesday meeting of the city's Planning and Transportation Commission.
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New Michigan Law Prohibits Teens From Using a Cell Phone While Driving
Patch.com
A new Michigan law prohibits teen drivers from using a cell phone while driving a car. According to MichiganVotes.org, Senate Bill 756 applies to any driver with a temporary drivers permit or a level 1 or 2 graduated license—meaning any driver under ...
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39 Manatee law officers working Presidential Inauguration in Washington, DC
Bradenton Herald
Lt. Lorenzo Waiters, Crime Prevention Unit supervisor for the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, will be joining a contingent of police officers representing the City of Bradenton, the City of Palmetto and Manatee County during the public presidential ...
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Bradenton Herald
Op-ed: Payday-lending law works in Washington state
The Seattle Times
Unfortunately, payday lenders are campaigning to repeal this law. Since 2010, the political contributions in Washington by just one payday lender, Moneytree, and its executives totaled more than $200,000. Users of payday loans and their advocates do ...
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The Seattle Times
US Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens: Report
Slate Magazine (blog)
That's according to a new report produced for the European Parliament, which has warned that a U.S. spy law renewed late last year authorizes "purely political surveillance on foreigners' data" if it is stored using U.S. cloud services like those ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)
In the eyes of the law, is an iMessage a text or an email?
The Verge
Over recent years a multitude of text services have attempted to replace text messaging and phone calls, from iMessage, Facebook chat, and BBM to Skype, Google Voice and WhatsApp. The law doesn't see iMessage and text messaging as equal, however: ...
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Blogs12 new results for law
 
Why Does Harvard Law Prof. Say It's 'Racist and Bigoted' to Call ...
By Erica Ritz
Adding to the long line of things that have been deemed "racist" by those on the left (think: peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, or almost anything Chris Matthews sees), Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz appeared on CNN with Piers Morgan ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
California Democrat blames absurd 1872 rape law on prison ...
By Eric W. Dolan
The Democratic chairwoman of the California Senate Committee on Public Safety said her committee killed a bill to clarify that an unmarried woman could be raped because of prison overcrowding. "We are walking that tight-rope between a ...
The Raw Story
Making Sense of Intellectual Property Law - Reason.com
By Tom Palmer
Today intellectual property law arguably does not serve that purpose, morphing instead into a tool to secure the incomes of lobbyists, lawyers, and powerful special interests. The successive retroactive extensions of copyrights, for example, ...
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Mike Easley seeks return of law license | CharlotteObserver.com
Former Gov. Mike Easley, convicted in 2010 of a felony, has applied for reinstatement of his law license. A lawyer said it is time for the former Democratic governor "to move on with his life."
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1872 law affects today's rape cases – Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN ...
By Ella Chick
CNN's Kyung Lah reports on controversy in California over an old law. If a suspect impersonates a woman's husband during an attack, it's considered rape. But if the victim is unmarried and the suspect is impersonating her boyfriend, the law ...
Anderson Cooper 360
Live blog of opinions (Sponsored by Bloomberg Law) (Updated ...
By Kali Borkoski
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 that you do not refresh your browser. Updates will appear without the need for ...
SCOTUSblog
New Law Means No Hand-Held Cell Phone Use For Teen Drivers ...
By asaunders
Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting novice teen drivers from using a hand-held cellphone while behind the wheel, a nod to a grieving mother's push to enact the restrictions after her daughter was killed in a car crash.
CBS Detroit
State Supreme Court Considers Billboard Law
By ereinhardt
Lawyers for the city of Columbus Tuesday asked the State Supreme Court to block a law allowing billboard companies to clear cut trees obscuring their signs. One of the arguments is over how much money the billboard companies pay ...
GPB News Feed
Bloomberg Law • The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library • Case ...
By Andy Dorchak
Case Western Reserve University School of Law has added Bloomberg Law to its stable of computer-assisted legal research services (CALR), including LexisNexis, Westlaw, Loislaw, and Casemaker. Approximately 135 of the 225 accredited ...
The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library
Law firm announces name change - The Stillwater Gazette
By The Stillwater Gazette
Banking and commercial lending law firm Anastasi & Associates changed its name to Anastasi Jellum, P.A., Jan. 1, company officials announced. The name change enhances the firm's established brand, known particularly among financial ...
The Stillwater Gazette
Stop sin tax law, companies ask court
By Rappler.com
The Distilled Spirits Association of the Philippines (DSAP) is asking the Manila Regional Trial Court to stop the implementation of a law that raises the prices of cigarettes and alcohol.
RAPPLER
Advocates Support Toned-Down Kentucky Charter School Law | WFPL
By Devin Katayama
A charter school bill has been filed in the Kentucky House and supporters hope the less aggressive approach will help get it passed this year. Enlarge image. Rep. Brad Montell, R-Shelbyville , crafted the law with help from the Kentucky ...
WFPL

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Watchdog says tax law too complex for most filers - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the nation's tax law is so thick and complicated that businesses and individuals spend ...
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Daily Kos: Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe: The coin would ...
I don't think it makes sense to think about this as some sort of "loophole" issue. Using the statute this way doesn't entail exploiting a loophole; it entails just ...
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Unwritten Law "Seein' Red" - YouTube
Unwritten Law "Rest of My Life"by unwrittenlawtv301,451 views · Unwritten Law " Save ... Unwritten Law "Shoulda Known Better"by unwrittenlawtv143,241 views ...
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Rape Victim to Be Flogged Under Islamic Law
Under Maldives' Islamic law, the authorities now intend to publicly flog the young rape victim. Public flogging is the penalty for "fornication," though authorities ...
www.breitbart.com/.../Rape-Victim-To-Be-Literally-Flogged-...
Watchdog says tax law too complex for most filers - Miami Herald
A government watchdog says the nation's tax law is so thick and complicated that businesses and individuals spend more than 6 billion hours a year complying ...
www.miamiherald.com/.../watchdog-says-tax-law-too-comple...


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