Mar 12, 2013

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Reince Priebus touts Paul Ryan's 'lemon law'
Politico
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus says Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget would act as a "lemon law" against President Barack Obama's health care reform. "We hold used-car salesmen to higher standards, I think, than we hold this ...
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NU Law to cut class sizes, hold tuition in check
Chicago Tribune
(Heather Charles/Tribune). Northwestern University's law school said Monday it will reduce class sizes, keep tuition increases at record lows and broaden financial aid to account for a decline in applications and help students leave the program with ...
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The AM Roundup: Bloomberg Sugarcoats Defeat, More
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Sweet and sour: "It would be irresponsible not to try to do everything we can to save lives," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg, after a state judge canned the city's soda ban. Rick Hills, a law professor at New York University, said, "There's a sense that ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Buying In: The Pre-Law Tour
Above the Law
I propose the should-be-mandatory pre-law "grand tour." As in, if you want to go to law school, with the requisite fantastic odds that you will end up indebting yourself until the next bailout jubilee — you show you are serious. And know what you are ...
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Above the Law
Anti-abortion law makes Arkansas ground zero in intensifying national debate
Fox News
Arkansas has become ground zero in the battle over abortion rights and limitations in the country. Just last week, lawmakers overrode Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of a law that will ban most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy. Under the Arkansas ...
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Arizona: Most of Law on Ethnic Studies Is Upheld
New York Times
A federal judge has upheld all but one aspect of an Arizona law prohibiting school districts from offering courses taught from a specific racial or ethnic perspective, which targeted the Mexican-American studies program at some Tucson public schools.
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Restaurants, regulators haggle over new menu labeling law
Detroit Free Press
The 2010 health care law charged the FDA with requiring restaurants and other establishments that serve food to put calorie counts on menus and in vending machines. The agency issued a proposed rule in 2011, but the final rules have since been delayed ...
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Experts Answer 6 Vital Law School Questions
U.S. News & World Report
Careful planning is the name of the game these days for people considering law school. The overall percentage of new grads employed has fallen every year since 2007, with just under two thirds of the class of 2011 finding jobs that require bar passage, ...
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Sport-Russian law against match-fixing gets preliminary approval
Yahoo! Sports
According to the draft law, published on the parliament's official website (www.duma.gov.ru), offenders also face fines of up to one million roubles ($32,500). Match-fixing and corruption are rife in Russian sport, experts say, as the country prepares ...
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Mothers fight to pass Ava's Law for autism coverage
CNN International
If passed, Ava's Law would require insurance companies to pay for "evidence-driven treatment" -- or treatment that's been scientifically shown to help kids with an autism spectrum disorder. The law would not affect the self-insured plans offered by ...
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Top Law School Cuts Admissions
Wall Street Journal
Northwestern University School of Law, one of the country's top law schools, said it will reduce the size of its incoming class by about 10%, citing declining applications and a "shakeout" in the market for legal jobs. The admissions cuts, announced ...
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High Court: State must defend African migrant law
Jerusalem Post
In an unusual development, the UN filed a "friend of the court" brief with the court adding its request to those of the other petitioners who asked the court to annul the law. The UN's standing before the court is granted by a special procedure for ...
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Biden to visit University of Baltimore law school opening
Baltimore Sun
The John and Frances Angelos Law Center, which has been under construction since 2010 and is an anchor of development in the North Charles Street corridor, will also host Gov. Martin O'Malley and Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell ...
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Proposed Maryland anti-zero-tolerance law would tell schools to stop ...
Boing Boing
Proposed Maryland anti-zero-tolerance law would tell schools to stop suspending kids who point their fingers at each other and say "bang". Cory Doctorow at 6:37 am Tue, Mar 12. — FEATURED —. Book Review · Scowler: nightmare-fuel horror novel about a ...
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Attorney Seeking To Overturn California Rape Law That Doesn't Protect All Victims
CBS Local
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A young woman was raped and the man who did it was found guilty, but that conviction was recently overturned by a state appeals court because of an old law. A California law currently on the books doesn't protect all rape victims.
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The 2014 US News Law School Rankings
Above the Law
The U.S. News law school rankings are due out in a couple of hours. But Above the Law sources have given us a sneak peek at the Top 25, this time in order. And not just from anonymous sources. Mike Spivey of the Spivey Consulting Group claims he's laid ...
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Cyberbullying law takes effect this week
The News Journal
The new law, which was proposed by state Attorney General Beau Biden and Lt. Gov. Matt Denn, directs schools to treat cyber bullies in the same way they act on incidents that happen in the school. Often, schools have struggled with responding to online ...
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What will mining law bring first, jobs or a legal challenge?
Capital Times
"I find it amazing that they are signing a bill (into law) and telling the workers of Wisconsin, who need jobs, that the jobs are just around the corner," says Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, who chaired last year's Senate Select Mining Committee and ...
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Maine voters shoot down law requiring a gun in every home
Washington Times
Byron, Maine, voters said no to a proposal that would have mandated all homeowners in the town to stow a gun and ammunition inside their houses. In the end, even the local government official who proposed the measure voted against it, CNN reported.
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Washington Times
Union's attempt to sidestep right-to-work law killed by Saginaw County ...
MLive.com
SAGINAW — Just weeks before Michigan's right-to-work legislation is set to go into effect, Saginaw County's largest employee union came to county leaders Monday, March 11, asking them to do an end run around the new law. The Office and Professional ...
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'Enemy' Davidoff, Nixon Peabody, Bird: Business of Law
Bloomberg
After Sid Davidoff was anointed public enemy number 12 by President Richard Nixon almost 40 years ago, the political operative for former New York City Mayor John F. Lindsay turned to the law. "It was a defining moment," the Davidoff, Hutcher & Citron ...
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Secretary of State Ritchie supports some election law changes
MinnPost.com
Although there are no state-wide elections scheduled this year, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is backing some election law changes at the state Capitol. Speaking to teachers in Brainerd this week, Ritchie said he supports these adjustments, reports ...
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Energized residents target gun control law
Albany Times Union
In fact, Busch acknowledged that a resolution to that effect would be likely to fail in the Democrat-controlled legislature, but she said residents deserved some outlet to voice their outrage over the law, which was passed in January and has triggered ...
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Police: Man stabbed his wife, sister-in-law overnight
The Tennessean
Police are looking for a man they say stabbed both his wife and his sister-in-law during an overnight spree. Donnell A. Simpson, 40, allegedly stabbed his sister-in-law in the chest with a knife on Melvin Jones Drive near the airport, according to ...
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A proposed Texas law would promote correcting incorrect news, online and off
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
digital-media-law-project-dmlp-cmlp Editor's note: Our friends at Harvard's Digital Media Law Project — recently renamed from the Citizen Media Law Project — noted a bill in Texas that could have significant implications for what happens when false ...
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Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
Gaps Remain in Law Requiring Coverage for Autism Therapy
NJ Spotlight
The law required insurance coverage of therapy based on applied behavior analysis, a technique that involves intensive interventions to modify behavior. Family members and advocates for children with autism said there are several reasons why children ...
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MK backs 'infiltrators law' which 'saved Israel'
Jerusalem Post
Shaked mentioned a hearing on Tuesday at the High Court to discuss a petition by NGOs against the so-called "infiltrators law," which she said "saved the country from a crawling conquest." Related: Assailants throw firecracker at TA Eritrean pub ...
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Law School Making Excuses About Its Low Ranking Before US News Is Even ...
Above the Law
The U.S. News 2014 Law School ranking should be leaked sometime this evening (check back in with Above the Law and we'll post it when we get it) and will be officially released sometime tomorrow. Each year the U.S. News list is met with criticism ...
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Above the Law
Judge upholds most of Arizona law banning ethnic studies
azcentral.com
State officials have won a significant legal battle in a long-running saga over a controversial Tucson schools ethnic-studies program, with a federal judge ruling that a law designed to ban it is constitutional. Authorities instrumental in the law's ...
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Free Range Kids » Right to Bear Gun-Shaped Pop-Tarts Law Drafted
By lskenazy
The proposed law begins: FOR the purpose of prohibiting a principal from suspending or expelling a student  who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun, or any ...
Free Range Kids
Pre-law prep free to disadvantaged students | law, school, program ...
News: Pre-law prep free to disadvantaged students | law, school, program, free, college, disadvantaged, applications, prep, student, students.
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For-Profit Law School Refunds Bar Exam - Business Insider
By Rebecca Baird-Remba
Florida Coastal School of Law and the Charlotte School of Law are offering the refunds to students who finish rigorous prep courses before trying to take the bar. Charlotte Law will give $10,000 to students who fail the bar exam more than once ...
Business Insider
'Lucky Moose law' extending powers of citizen's arrest takes effect ...
The Criminal Code has been amended to make it easier for people to make citizens' arrests without fear of being arrested themselves.
CTV News - Toronto
Cabinet meet on anti-rape law begins- Politics News- Politics-IBNLive
The Cabinet meet on anti-rape law begins. The Delhi gangrape case of December 2012 triggered the government's proposed new anti-rape law. The Cabinet will take it up the new law on Tuesday. But consensus has eluded the government ...
IBN Top Headlines
Watch LIVE: Minnesota House Committee on Civil Law Hearing on ...
By Andy Towle
The first marriage equality hearing has begun before a Minnesota House committee. Those interested can tune in here. As I noted last week, the chances look very good for the bill to get to both the Senate and House floors.
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U.S. Anti-Violence Law Aims to End Child Marriage Worldwide » US ...
By DGN
U.S. legislation signed into law March 7 renews and strengthens an almost 20-year-old law designed to prevent and respond to violence against women, but the 2013 version reaches beyond the U.S. population to the world at large in an ...
US Mission Geneva
VA says it won't follow New York gun law - Marine Corps Times
ALBANY, N.Y. — The federal Department of Veterans Affairs says its mental health professionals won't comply with a new gun law in New York that requires them to report the names of patients they believe likely to hurt themselves or others.
Marine Corps Times - News
W.E.N.N » Steven Tyler Thrilled About New Hawaiian Privacy Law
By wennnewsdesk
Steven Tyler Thrilled About New Hawaiian Privacy Law. click image to enlarge. March 12, 2013 | 4:56am EST. Steven Tyler has spoken out about new laws he introduced in his adopted Hawaii that prevent paparazzi from targeting celebrities.
W.E.N.N.
Collateral Consequences of the UBS and RBS LIBOR Settlements ...
By Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation,
Collateral Consequences of the UBS and RBS LIBOR Settlements - The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation - A law and economics blog from the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate ...
The Harvard Law School Forum...
Law enforcement warns Snapchat is a perfect tool for child predators
An app called Snapchat boasts 50-million snaps a day, but each of the images come and go in a matter of seconds.
News | KSHB
Arizona's voter registration law heads for Supreme Court review
By Mary Shinn
To Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, the state law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration is "common sense," not a burden. To opponents, Arizona's Proposition 200 is just another obstacle that would restrict access to the polls ...
All Headlines | TucsonSentinel.com
New York Judge Strikes Down Bloomberg's Big Gulp Law ...
By jonathanturley
Tingling focused on the obvious "loopholes" in the law that barred sales for some establishments while allowed the drinks to be sold by other establishments "even within a particular City block, much less the City as a whole." The judge also ...
JONATHAN TURLEY

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Bin Laden's son-in-law, once al Qaeda's 'mouthpiece,' held by U.S. ...
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, who has served as an al Qaeda spokesman, was captured and is in U.S. custody, U.S. officials said Thursday.
www.cnn.com/2013/03/07/world/.../bin-laden-relative-capture...
Judge won't overturn insanity law in Aurora, Colo., shooting case
DENVER (AP) — The judge in the deadly Colorado theater shootings has denied a request by defense lawyers to declare a state law on the insanity plea ...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/.../1973247/
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine - Sunshine Laws Training
The Sunshine Law Certification Training, provided by the Ohio Attorney General's Office, is a three-hour certification training session provided to all elected ...
www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/legal/.../sunshine-law-training


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