Feb 27, 2013

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Justices Turn Back Challenge to Broader US Eavesdropping
New York Times
The decision, by a 5-to-4 vote that divided along ideological lines, probably means the Supreme Court will never rule on the constitutionality of that 2008 law. More broadly, the ruling illustrated how hard it is to mount court challenges to a wide ...
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NY gun law mandates magazines that don't exist
USA TODAY
Before, New Yorkers could use 10-round magazines, and higher-capacity magazines made before 1994. The new law immediately banned the higher-capacity magazines. Residents can continue to use 10-round magazines, but can only load seven bullets.
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Court rejects Florida law requiring drug testing for welfare recipients
Fox News
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a temporary ban on a law requiring drug testing of Florida's welfare recipients. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that a lower court was right to temporarily halt ...
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UPDATE 2-Egypt govt approves law allowing Islamic bond issues
Reuters
Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:03am EST. * Law paves way to Egypt's first Islamic bond issue. * Could help support state finances, boost forex reserves. * Analyst sceptical of impact, says it's "total hype". * Fitch Ratings sees election timetable pushing back IMF ...
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The Latest Hurdle to Gun-Law Reform
New York Times
"There absolutely will not be record-keeping on legitimate, law-abiding gun owners in this country," said Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican of Oklahoma, on "Fox News Sunday." "All they have to do is create a record-keeping, and that will kill this bill ...
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Christie Signs NJ Internet Gambling Bill Into Law
NPR
Get ready for betting in your jammies, at work, from the kitchen table, or at the beach: New Jerseyans — and possibly many others — will soon be able to gamble over the Internet. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill Tuesday legalizing ...
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Voting Rights Law Gets Supreme Court Challenge
U.S. News & World Report
Voting Rights Law Gets Supreme Court Challenge. February 27, 2013 RSS Feed Print. The Supreme Court justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in a challenge to part of the Voting Rights Act. By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press. WASHINGTON ...
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to surveillance law
Boston Globe
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said that the journalists, lawyers, and human rights advocates who challenged the constitutionality of the law could not show they had been harmed by it and so lacked standing to sue. Their fear ...
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Boston Globe
Somalia must strengthen the rule of law and investigate sexual violence
Aljazeera.com
"Somalia is emerging from a long and difficult period of instability, with representative institutions and a new government that has made a commendable commitment to uphold human right and the rule of law for all. This journey must begin with a solid ...
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Calif. AG lobbies feds for law enforcement money
San Jose Mercury News
The Democrat, in her first term as California's top law enforcement official, said certain funding should be a priority even if the federal budget is cut. That includes programs that pay for hiring local police and state anti-drug agents, who play a ...
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Bob Goodlatte: Obama Universal Background Check Policy Would ...
Huffington Post
Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said such a requirement could unnecessarily inconvenience law-abiding citizens and lead to the creation of a national gun registry – something Goodlatte and many other Republicans oppose. Instead Goodlatte said he supports ...
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Supreme Court questions sides in challenge of Md. DNA law
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Maryland police have used the law to check suspects' genetic information against evidence from unsolved crimes, and it has helped them close 43 cases since it took effect. One of those resulted in a rape conviction against Alonzo Jay King, a Wicomico ...
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'Harry's Law' star Kathy Bates to play Jessica Lange enemy in FX anthology ...
Washington Post (blog)
TV-series-wise, Bates most recently starred in NBC's David E. Kelley-produced "Harry's Law." NBC canceled the legal drama last May, though it was one of its most watched series, because it skewed older. (Bates also got rave reviews — and her first ...
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Mental Health Law Increases Access To Substance Abuse Treatment, But Costs ...
Forbes
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act signed into law in '08 by President George W. Bush has contributed to an increase in hospital admissions for substance abuse, a study shows. A law that makes it easier for Americans to gain access to ...
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Forbes
Supreme Court blocks challenge to anti-terrorism law
USA TODAY
In a 5-4 decision, the court's conservative justices ruled that lawyers, journalists, human rights activists and others lacked standing to challenge a law passed in 2008 that increases the government's ability to intercept international communications.
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Appeals Court: Florida Can't Test Welfare Applicants for Drug Use
Wall Street Journal
Unless Florida appeals the decision, the case will return to a federal district judge, who will determine whether the law is constitutional. Florida Gov. Rick Scott termed the ruling "disturbing" and vowed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Drug use ...
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'Boston's Finest': An homage to law enforcement
Boston.com
As the title indicates, this chronicle of a collection of Boston police officers, ranging from gang and fugitive unit officers to beat cops, is meant as a sincere shout-out to law enforcement. "These cops think the darkest corners of their city are ...
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Supreme Court to weigh ongoing validity of voting rights law
Reuters
The key issue is whether Congress has the authority under the 15th Amendment, which gave African Americans the right to vote, to require some states, mainly in the South, to show that any proposed election-law change would not discriminate against ...
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Landmark civil rights law faces critical Supreme Court test
NBCNews.com (blog)
By Pete Williams, NBC News Justice Correspondent. The U.S. Supreme Court this week will consider whether a landmark civil rights law, the Voting Rights Act, remains constitutionally valid, given the growth in the political power of minority voters and ...
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Kennesaw, Georgia 1982 law requires all households have a gun
KSDK
"It was not meant to be an enforceable law. The police department has never searched homes to make sure you had a gun," said Lt. Graydon. "It was meant more or less as a political statement to support citizens' second amendment rights to own firearms." ...
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Huffington Post
Librab103 February 26, 2013 16:53 What is bad about this law is that it has the word terrorist in it! Terrorist has no legal definition and means something different from country to country. It is a "grey area" word and that is why our government likes ...
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GAO: Health law will increase deficit if cost-cutting steps stop
The Hill (blog)
In a new report, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that President Obama's signature law could increase or decrease the deficit over the next 75 years depending on whether its cost-saving provisions survive. In addition to ...
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U.A.E. Central Bank Governor Says New Mortgage Law May Be Eased
Bloomberg
The head of the central bank in the United Arab Emirates said new restrictions on mortgages may be changed after protests by the nation's lenders. The central bank issued rules on Dec. 30 that restricted mortgages for expatriates to 50 percent of the ...
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Google and Spain wrestle over EU privacy law
Reuters
The announcement of property auctioned as part of a legal proceeding was "required under Spanish law and includes factually correct information that is still publicly available on the newspaper's website", said William Echikson, Google's head of free ...
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Supreme Court dismisses challenge to surveillance law
Washington Post
The Supreme Court split along ideological lines Tuesday in dismissing a challenge to an expanded federal law that allows the interception of electronic communications between foreign targets and people in the United States. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr ...
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Gov. Christie signs internet gambling into law
NJ.com
The state Treasury said today it expected the new law — combined with the recovery from Hurricane Sandy and additional advertising — to sharply increase casino revenue from $235 million in the current fiscal year to nearly $436 million in fiscal 2014.
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NJ.com
State Senate working to fix outdated rape law
ABC30.com
"A large number of women in California are currently vulnerable to this loophole in the law. It is unacceptable that in 2013 current state law does not provide protection for unmarried women in certain rape cases," said Katie Donahue of the California ...
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High court throws out challenge to surveillance law
Yahoo! News (blog)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-based journalists, lawyers and human rights groups cannot challenge a federal law that allows surveillance of some international communications, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a case touching on government efforts ...
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Yahoo! News (blog)
Colorado lawmaker proposes liability law for assault weapons owners, sellers
The Denver Channel
Republicans have also said Morse's idea may conflict with a 2005 federal law that protects gun makers and sellers from liability for crimes committed with their products. Morse says jurors would decide whether sellers or owners should be held liable in ...
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The Denver Channel
Stand your ground law still there one year after Trayvon Martin's death
RT
One year after Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch coordinator, the "stand your ground" law continues to remain in place, allowing Americans to use deadly force against anyone they believe is a threat against their lives. The ...
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Man Holds Elderly Mother-in-Law Hostage | KTLA 5
By shawnmcginnis
SANTA MONICA -- A man is reportedly holding his 87-year old mother-in-law hostage inside a home in Santa Monica. Police say the 47-year old man's wife and son escaped unharmed. Glen Walker has more on the stand-off.
KTLA 5
'Law-Abiding, Taxpaying' Gun Owner Defends Ownership of AR-15 ...
By Jason Howerton
Joe Minney, of Chillicothe, Ohio, is a self-described law-abiding, taxpaying American citizen who owns an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. He selected the weapon for a number of reasons, including home defense, hunting and even pest control.
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Residence rights to focus on Basic Law | South China Morning Post
Right-of-abode appeal opens with government lawyer clarifying intent of its controversial request to court to seek ruling from Beijing.
Hong Kong feed
Hungary Constitutional Court strikes down church law - Jurist
By Matthew Pomy
JURIST - Paper Chase: Hungary Constitutional Court strikes down church law.
Paper Chase
Citizen Uses Baltimore's Old Scalping Law To Give Ticketmaster A ...
By Mary Beth Quirk
Maryland's highest court just ruled last month that Ticketmaster's fee do violate that law — originally designed to prevent scalping of Navy football tickets — but now it's up to a federal court to determine whether or not Ticketmaster must stop ...
The Consumerist
Gun Control Opponent Against Law Change | WPRI.com
Opponents to changing Rhode Island gun laws say there is already enough gun control in the state.
News | WPRI TV
Germany moves to dilute criticized 'Google law' - The Local
Germany's ruling centre-right coalition is set to water down proposed legislation that would force internet search engines and news aggregators like Google to pay publishers for displaying snippets of their content.
The Local - Germany's news in English
Bikini-Clad Starlets Break The Law To Skrillex Soundtrack « The ...
By mreal197
Details have emerged regarding the soundtrack of provocative new film Spring Breakers, and it's heavy on the EDM bass of dubstep, courtesy Grammy-winning producer Skrillex.
The World Famous KROQ - Alt Rock...
City Hall to enforce wage law after all
By Celina Westervelt
City Officials are changing their tune about enforcing Albuquerque's new minimum wage ordinance.
KRQE News 13 - Top Stories
Florida's Welfare Drug Testing Law Struck Down by Federal Appeals ...
By Seth Freed Wessler
A federal appeals court today struck a blow to a 2011 Florida law requiring drug tests for all applicants to the state's welfare program.
Colorlines
Gay Marriage Law Inches Closer | Stuff.co.nz
By Kate Chapman
Gay marriage legislation has been reported back to Parliament with majority support.
Stuff.co.nz - Politics
How My Mother-in-Law Learned to Make Tortillas | Poisoned Pen ...
By Donis Casey
Perhaps she's right. But there is a reason that recipe twist came to be included in my novel, and here it is: My mother-in-law Mabel was fifteen years old when she married her first husband in the mid-1920's, and she was already accomplished ...
Poisoned Pen Press
No Wiretap Law Unless…
By adekunle
A DRAFT legislation the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has before the National Assembly, will endanger our liberties, if it becomes law. Titled 'Draft Lawful Interception of Communications Regulations', it would allow ...
Vanguard News
Con Law Lessons - Credit Slips
By Stephen Lubben
Uniting my current teaching load with Dodd-Frank, over at Dealb%k.
Credit Slips

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