Feb 4, 2013

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Republicans question whether Treasury nominee Lew broke federal law
Fox News
Treasury secretary nominee Jack Lew is coming under fire from Senate Republicans who question whether he violated federal law by declining to respond to dire warnings from the group that oversees Medicare. Eight Senate Republicans voiced their ...
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Obama tries to undercut NRA in gun control debate
Fox News
President Obama on Monday tried to undercut National Rifle Association leaders and appeal directly to their membership, claiming gun owners support the "common-sense" gun control measures he's proposed -- and urging those supporters to "keep the ...
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Why the Texas Disclosure Law Really Does Work
Forbes
In June, 2011, shortly after the end of that year's session of the Texas Legislature, Governor Rick Perry signed HB 3328 – the Texas Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Disclosure Act – into law. With that stroke of his pen, Governor Perry made Texas the first ...
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Alabama Hostage Standoff Over
ABC News
A week-long Alabama standoff in which a retired trucker held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker has ended, according to law enforcement sources. Jimmy Lee Dykes, who allegedly shot a school bus driver last week, had threatened to kill ...
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Herbalife slams news report of law enforcement probe
Reuters
The New York Post reported that Herbalife was the subject of a law enforcement investigation, citing documents the paper obtained from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents, which contained consumer ...
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Will House GOP really line up against law enforcement on guns?
Washington Post (blog)
If any proposals in Obama's gun package are to have any chance of passing the House, he'll need to win over Republicans like Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia. He represents one of 16 districts held by Republicans that were carried by Obama in 2012 — the ...
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Dodgers' system ranked No. 18 by Keith Law
ESPN (blog)
As Law points out, the Dodgers' system could improve fairly dramatically in coming seasons. Some of their top prospects are the result of recent drafts and the team has been quietly spending tons of money in international markets to reload a system ...
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UPDATE 5-UK prepares new law to break up errant banks
Reuters
Germany is however considering a new law that would see executives jailed for up to five years if found guilty of reckless behaviour that jeopardises their bank, a move described by a senior government source in Berlin as a signal to Europe, which is ...
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India protesters decry new rape law
Aljazeera.com
The protesters criticised the new law as a smokescreen, because it does not deal with the issue of marital rape or sexual violence against women by armed forces personnel in conflict zones that had been recommended by the government commission.
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Obama takes gun control push to law enforcement, American people
Washington Post
MINNEAPOLIS—President Obama, flanked by dozens of uniformed police officers, delivered a forceful defense here Monday of mandatory background checks for all gun buyers. Obama took his first trip outside Washington to rally public support for his ...
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Fashion faux pas! Parisian law says it's illegal for women to wear pants
New York Daily News
If it isn't already daunting enough to pack for a trip to fashionable Paris, female visitors, beware: It's illegal to wear pants. So says a law dating from 1800 that has never been taken off the books - only relaxed to allow women the comfort of two ...
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New York Daily News
Privacy groups tell US to stop lobbying EU on data law changes
CNET
Privacy groups tell U.S. to stop lobbying EU on data law changes. The EFF, ACLU, EPIC, and more than a dozen other privacy and rights groups call on the U.S. to stop an "unprecedented lobbying campaign" over the proposed changes to EU data protection ...
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New Jersey's Useful One-Gun-a-Month Law
New York Times
A New Jersey statute limits purchases of firearms in the state to one handgun a month, with some exceptions. The superintendent of state police, for instance, can exempt collectors or competitive shooters from the limit so they can buy a set of guns ...
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Georgetown Law student busted dealing crystal meth
New York Daily News
A high-flying law student with aspirations to serve in public office was secretly a drug dealer and addict who raked in more than $100,000 in profits. Georgetown Law student Marc Gersen, 31, will now spend the next four years behind bars after his ...
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New York Daily News
Senate Poised to Advance Domestic-Violence Law
Wall Street Journal (blog)
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate this week will take another stab at a high-profile bill lawmakers failed to finalize last Congress, the extension of a domestic-violence law that lapsed at the beginning of the year. The Senate was poised late Monday to ...
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Herbalife Drops After Report of Law-Enforcement Probe
Bloomberg
The FTC, responding to a Freedom of Information Law request from the New York Post, released 188 complaints against the company and said in correspondence with the newspaper that the agency redacted some information because of a law-enforcement ...
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Bloomberg
N.Y. poll: 65 percent back gun law
Politico
Most New Yorkers support a stringent new state law that tackles gun control, a poll out Monday showed. According to a survey from Siena Research Institute, 65 percent of those polled back the measure, which was passed last month in the wake of the ...
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Politico
Football panel to consider changing offside law
NBCNews.com
ZURICH (AP) -FIFA's rules-making panel will consider changing how the offside law is interpreted at its annual meeting next month to clarify when attackers can legally influence play. FIFA said Monday the panel, known as IFAB, will also examine closing ...
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NBCNews.com
'Dani the Deer' case could change Indiana law on caring for injured wild animals
WRTV Indianapolis
Jeff Counceller said he doesn't want the law completely repealed, but in cases like Dani's -- where the animal is seriously wounded and there's no other help available -- he said in a phone interview that people should be able to help. "As long as ...
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Ranking the farm systems
ESPN
To kick off my look at the best prospects in the minor leagues this week, I've ranked all 30 MLB farm systems from top to bottom, considering only the players who are currently in their systems and who have not yet exhausted their rookie of the year ...
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Gunster law firm opens Orlando office
Orlando Sentinel
A South Florida law firm with offices from Jacksonville to the Keys is opening an Orlando branch with three local attorneys and a consultant. West Palm Beach-based Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart P.A., which describes itself as one of Florida's oldest and ...
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Treasury nominee Jack Lew accused of breaking Medicare law by Republicans
Washington Times
Senate Republicans are sending a letter Monday to the White House budget office arguing that President Obama's nominee to be treasury secretary, Jacob "Jack" Lew, was complicit in breaking a Medicare budget law. The letter comes the same day that Mr.
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Washington Times
Kasich backs Obama law's Medicaid expansion
The Hill (blog)
States can choose whether to enact the Medicaid expansion because of the Supreme Court's decision, which made the policy optional while upholding law's mandate to buy insurance last summer. Kasich proposed Monday to extend coverage to adults living ...
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Easley gets license back, can again practice law
News & Observer
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley is again allowed to practice law, two years after his license was suspended following a felony plea. The North Carolina State Bar on Monday reinstated the two-term Democratic governor and former ...
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Grant County prosecutor seeks gun control law
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP) — Grant County Prosecutor Angus Lee wants the Legislature to change the law that allows gun rights to be restored to the mentally ill who have been involuntarily committed. Lee says current law makes it too easy for those with serious mental ...
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Ryan Blasts Obama for Breaking Law by Refusing to Submit Budget
The Weekly Standard (blog)
Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, blasts President Barack Obama in a statement for breaking the law by refusing to submit an annual budget. "President Obama is required by law to submit his budget request for Fiscal Year 2014. For the ...
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The Weekly Standard (blog)
China tests the limits of the law of the sea
Washington Times
In late January, the government of the Philippines served official notice that it plans to bring China before an arbitral tribunal over the latter's persistent violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — the multilateral treaty ...
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Washington Times
Google's Eric Schmidt on 'Hidden People' and 'Virtual Genocide'
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Law Blog has pored over an unreleased galley of Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt's new book, "The New Digital Age," published by Alfred A. Knopf with an April 23 release date. The book, co-written with Google Ideas director Jared Cohen, offers a ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Study: Law Firm Partners Are Overwhelmingly White Men
ThinkProgress
A study by NALP, a legal employment group previously known as the National Association for Law Placement, finds that the overwhelming majority of partners in law firms are white men. Moreover, an even larger disparity exists among equity partners ...
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Blogs14 new results for law
 
Rule of Law » Going to Court in the Allen West Contest
By J. Christian Adams
Today, True the Vote filed a federal lawsuit against the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections regarding the contest for the 18th Congressional District in Florida — the Allen West race. The case is brought under the 1993 Motor Voter law.
Rule of Law
Prison Planet.com » Utah Governor: "Utah Will Adhere to the Law ...
By admin
Governor Gary Herbert of Utah recently called a pro-gun rights bill sponsored by a Utah state representative "an exaggeration" and encouraged the lawmaker to "adhere to the law." This is not the level of support citizens of the Beehive State ...
Prison Planet.com
'Martial law': Rehman Malik asks CJ to take notice of Qadri's statement
By noreply@tribune.com.pk (Ferya Ilyas)
Interior minister says Qadri's statements are always against the law.
The Express Tribune
Illinois Rep. Introduces Bill To Change 'Facebook Law' « CBS St. Louis
By Justin Wingerter
The law allows employers to see public Facebook profiles only. If a supervisor asks for the information they are subjected to fines and penalties.
CBS St. Louis
Herbalife Denies Report of Regulatory Probe
Herbalife shares plunged Monday after a newspaper reported the seller of weight loss products is facing a law enforcement probe, which the company denied.
Top News and Analysis (pro)
Yankees rank tenth in Keith Law's farm system rankings | River ...
By Mike Axisa
Keith Law released his 2013 farm system rankings today (subs. req'd), which are predictably topped by the Cardinals. They have Oscar Taveras, a ton of MLB-ready power arms, and quality depth coming out of their ears. The Twins and Rays ...
River Avenue Blues
Life after 'Harry's Law' | TV and Media Blog
By John Kiesewetter
Tonight we'll see why "Harry's Law" producers didn't aggressively protest NBC's cancellation last May of Kathy Bates' legal drama fictionally set in Cincinnati. Executive producers David E. Kelley and director Bill D'Elia had aleady moved on to ...
TV and Media Blog
Speeding diplomats immune from law | thetelegraph.com.au
SOME foreign diplomats are running riot on Canberra's roads and getting away with it.
Daily Telegraph | Top Stories
Packing for Paris? Old law bans pants for women
If it isn't already daunting enough to pack for a trip to fashionable Paris, female visitors, beware: It's illegal to wear pants.
Strange News | WAVY TV
Keith Law's Organizational Farm System Rankings - Lone Star Ball
By Adam J. Morris
The Rangers check in at #9 in Keith Law's organizational farm system rankings.
Lone Star Ball - All Posts
Construction Law Update – February 2013Baldwin Haspel Burke ...
By admin
The Construction Law Update is published by Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, LLC for the benefit of its clients and others having interest in the construction industry. It includes discussions on Louisiana state and federal court decisions, ...
Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer...
Radio: Programs: "Anti-gay" law not really anti-gay says deputy ...
By Peter Lekarev
Izvestia talked with Elena Mizulina, head of the Duma committee for family, women's and children's affairs, who explained the deputies' position on allegedly anti-gay legislation. The workgroup she is heading is currently refining the bill which ...
Voice of Russia, News
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: Submitting to law reviews
By Brian Leiter
The highlights from this round of revisions include the following: First, there has been movement toward Scholastica and we have tried to track which law reviews prefer Scholastica or exclusively accept through that channel. Second, the chart ...
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
Keith Law ranks the Padres farm system 6th best - Gaslamp Ball
By jbox
ESPN's Keith Law ranked baseball's best farm systems. He's got the Padres ranked 6th just like SBNation's John Sickels. I had the Padres at 6 too. So now we can say definitively that all the...
Gaslamp Ball - All Posts

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Pants-less in Paris? Old law bans pants for women - CBS News
1800 decree says it's illegal for women to wear pants in France - but law is superseded by Constitution's equal rights clause.
www.cbsnews.com/.../pants-less-in-paris-old-law-bans-pants-f...
Lemon law attorney Vince Megna's YouTube videos a wild card in ...
Madison - Supreme Court candidate and lemon law attorney Vince Megna built up his name over the past year with a series of web videos, but those spoofs ...
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