Mar 13, 2013

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BHP Billiton denies breaking law in Olympics deal
NBCNews.com
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -Global mining giant BHP Billiton is under investigation by U.S. and Australian law enforcement for potential violations of anti-corruption laws through its sponsorship of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The U.S. Justice Department ...
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Rely on Law Enforcement, but Demand More
New York Times
Wendy Murphy is a former prosecutor specializing in sex crimes who now represents abused women and children. An adjunct faculty member teaching sexual violence law at New England Law in Boston, she has helped lead efforts to reform federal law on ...
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From 'WarGames' to Aaron Swartz: How US ...
CNET
"In 20 years, we've seen the law become broader and the penalties become more Draconian," says Hanni Fakhoury, a former federal public defender who's now an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "And as a result, we have this ...
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Judge upholds Arizona law banning ethnic studies classes
Los Angeles Times
TUCSON — An Arizona law that put an end to ethnic studies courses in Tucson schools has been largely upheld as constitutional by a federal judge, but supporters of the program say their legal fight to restore the program will continue. U.S. Circuit ...
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Europe Seeks Update of Law on Fliers' Rights
New York Times
The proposed changes would also seek tougher oversight and enforcement of airlines' compliance with the law. But the proposal is not completely pro-passenger. As announced in Brussels by the European Union's transport commissioner, Siim Kallas, would ...
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Ark. panel considers school choice law rewrite
San Francisco Chronicle
Johnny Key's proposal to rewrite a 1989 school choice law that a federal judge struck down last year. Key's proposal removes the part of the law that the judge rejected, which uses race as the main factor in deciding whether a student can transfer to ...
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KfW to Avoid ECB Oversight in Draft Law Backed by Merkel Cabinet
Bloomberg
That's a reversal from plans by Merkel's coalition in November to use at least part of the bank's profit to reduce the budget deficit. "Also in future, KfW won't be a normal banking institution" under German law, according to the statement. "There is ...
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Gun law claim goes awry
PolitiFact
Some gun control organizations regularly rank each state based on its gun laws. The most prominent group, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, gave Georgia an 8 on a scale of 100 in terms of the toughness of its gun laws in 2011. Liz Flowers, a ...
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Appeals court refuses to reinstate union law
The Courier Life News
Last year's ruling overturned the law as it pertained to school and local government workers, but there has been confusion over whether that applied statewide or just in Milwaukee and Madison, the two cities where public workers filed the original ...
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First-year law course merger leads to 200-student class at Law School
CU Columbia Spectator
After a merger of two sections of a first-year constitutional law course created a 200-student class at Columbia Law School, both students and faculty are seeking to make the best of an unexpected situation. The class combination occurred after ...
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Tightening Illinois Gun Law Conceals Divide on Pistol Use
Bloomberg
Illinois has less than three months to comply with a federal court order requiring the nation's fifth most-populous state to enact what is already law in the other 49 -- allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons. Lawmakers must balance the intent of ...
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Scott Brown To Join Boston Law Firm
Harvard Crimson
Scott Brown, perhaps Massachusetts' favorite Republican, is moving back into the private sector. The former U.S. Senator will transition from making laws to reading them when he joins Nixon Peabody, a respected Boston law firm, both parties announced ...
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Sheriff: Law that keeps fugitives from collecting tax refunds nets 100 arrests
CapitalGazette.com
Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman says a new law, which allows Maryland to withhold state tax refunds of those with outstanding warrants, has resulted in some 100 arrests in recent weeks. The legislation was signed into law last May by Gov.
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SD law allows use of dogs to hunt mountain lions
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
PIERRE — South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed into law a measure allowing the use of dogs for mountain lion hunting. The bill also allows a leashed dog to be used to track and retrieve any big game animal that is wounded or presumed dead.
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License law closer to an end
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The House is expected to vote today to reverse a 2012 law that required Canadians and other foreign visitors in Florida to obtain an international driving permit before they could operate a vehicle. The Senate is scheduled to take up the bill Tuesday ...
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Virginia anti-sodomy law overturned in Colonial Heights case
Richmond Times Dispatch
A divided three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned Virginia's anti-sodomy law in a Colonial Heights case. The majority ruled that Virginia's "Crimes Against Nature" anti-sodomy provision is ...
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City explains law that led to a ticket for hungry, homeless man
Houston Chronicle
Civil libertarians, volunteer groups and religious leaders were opposed, however, saying the law "criminalized charity." Houston attorney Randall Kallinen, a key opponent of the feeding ordinance, is representing James Kelly, 44, who was ticketed last ...
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Menu labeling law isn't ready, FDA chief says
Kansas City Star
Some non-restaurants have lobbied hard to be exempted from the 2010 law that charged the FDA with requiring chain restaurants and other establishments that serve food to put calorie counts on menus and in vending machines. Volt, Prius charge. General ...
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Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn, Police Chief James Sheppard personify gun law division
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
As guest speakers at the Rotary luncheon, O'Flynn and Sheppard were a law enforcement personification of the division over the SAFE Act — gun rights supporters questioning whether the law will keep illegal guns from criminals and gun control advocates ...
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Corbett and His Wife Took Over $15000 in Gifts from Law Firm Representing Oil ...
StateImpact Pennsylvania
During his time as State Attorney General and Governor, Tom Corbett and his wife took thousands of dollars in gifts from an influential Philadelphia law firm whose clients include oil, gas, and chemical companies fighting state and federal ...
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Marijuana law becomes part of budget talks
Albany Times Union
ALBANY — A bid to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana is among the non-fiscal items that could work their way into the state budget as negotiations draw to a close. Gov. Andrew Cuomo convened legislative leaders at his Capitol office for an hour ...
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Appeals court strikes down Va. anti-sodomy law
Washington Times
Virginia's so-called "crimes against nature" law served as the basis for William Scott MacDonald's felony conviction. A judge in Colonial Heights convicted MacDonald, then 47, of criminal solicitation for allegedly demanding oral sex from a 17-year-old ...
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California environmental review law backers rally at Capitol
Sacramento Bee (blog)
The battle over the future of California's environmental review law waged on Tuesday, as a coalition of environmental groups, tribal organizations and labor unions rallied against the prospect of changes. A push to rewrite the California Environmental ...
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Mayors want tougher cold medicines law
WISH
Some local officials want a law requiring a doctor's prescription to buy pseudoephedrine-based products. Mayors from Evansville, Muncie, Warsaw and Plymouth are expected to attend an Indiana House committee hearing on the issue Wednesday.
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Bill to consolidate Alabama law enforcement agencies headed to governor
al.com (blog)
MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- A bill to consolidate law enforcement and public safety agencies as part of an effort to make government more efficient won final passage tonight in the Alabama Senate. The Senate also gave final passage to a bill to create a ...
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Above the law
Washington Post
Madison, "has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men." This principle — grounded in the Constitution, enforced by an independent judiciary — is central to the American creed. Citizens have rights, and fundamental to these is ...
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Economy changes law firms' shape
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Before the 2008 recession, the layout of many law firms looked something like this: private attorney offices hugged the windowed walls and, outside their doors, secretarial work stations served every office occupant. Now many of those work stations are ...
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Coalition forms to defend California environmental law
Record-Searchlight
A new coalition of environmental and labor groups announced their opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown's effort to overhaul California's landmark environmental law. The coalition, calling itself Common Ground, say CEQA serves a vital role in protecting the ...
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Without law, there is no justice (Your view)
The Birmingham News - al.com
The Supreme Court had to be desperate to use a law written in 1899 to overturn a judge and an Appeals Court's unanimous decision to deny a search warrant for the Attorney General's office. The rule of law in Alabama doesn't seem to apply to our elected ...
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Blogs14 new results for law
 
Daily Kos: NBC: If senators gut background check law, NRA will not ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Meteor Blades)
Senators negotiating a bill mandating background checks for all gun buyers are privately expecting the National Rifle Association not to fight the measure—provided the legislation does not to require private gun sellers to maintain records of ...
Daily Kos
Guns of Law-Abiding Husband Confiscated After Wife's Single ...
By Liz Klimas
Just last week, the California Senate approved a $24 million funding bill to expedite the process of collecting guns from owners in the state who legally acquired them but have since become disqualified due to felony convictions or mental ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Amnesty law could free many convicted for arson attacks - The Nation
Amnesty law could free many convicted for arson attacks. Damage to provincial halls, TV station estimated at hundreds of millions of baht.
NationMultimedia.com - Politics
Porno-copyright trolls Prenda Law get hauled in front of a very angry ...
By Cory Doctorow
Popehat's Ken White attended a hearing in United States District Court Judge Otis D. Wright II's California courtroom. Judge Wright is the judge most likely to put a halt to the astounding shenanigans of the notorious porno-copyright trolls ...
Boing Boing
U.K.'s SRA 'Intervenes' in Law Firm, Tells 250 ... - Legal Blog Watch
By Bruce Carton
U.K.'s SRA 'Intervenes' in Law Firm, Tells 250 Employees to Clear Out Desks. In the U.K., there is a regulator called the Solicitors Regulation Authority. According to its website, the SRA regulates more than 120,000 solicitors in England and ...
Legal Blog Watch
Jude Law Joins Western 'Jane Got A Gun', Michael Fassbender ...
By Ben Pearson
When it was announced that Natalie Portman would produce and star in a western called Jane Got A Gun for We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay,
FirstShowing.net
Law & Order Reunion! S. Epatha Merkerson May Join Jesse. L ...
By Christopher Dehn
The BEST source for Broadway Buzz, Broadway Shows, Broadway Tickets, Off-Broadway, London theater information, Tickets, Gift Certificates, Videos, News & Features, Reviews, Photos, New York Hotel & Theater Packages.
Broadway.com - Latest Buzz
Capitol Confidential » David Soares pushes for marijuana law ...
By Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol bureau
Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares joined a press conference held by members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus to change the state's marijuana laws in order to close a "loophole" that has led to ...
Capitol Confidential
Jude Law Revealed To Be 'Serious' - Entertainmentwise
Jude Law's alleged new girlfriend has been revealed to be model Alicia Rountre.
Celebrity News - Entertainmentwise.com
Group wants referendum on casino law - WPRI.com
By By Tim O'Coin
An anti-gambling group wants voters to decide if casinos should be allowed in Massachusetts.
Top Stories | WPRI.com
Elon University Law dean speaking at Bennett College
By WS Chronicle
George R. Johnson Jr., dean of Elon University School of Law, will be the keynote speaker for Bennett College's Charter Day Convocation, an observance of the 124th anniversary since its chartering as a four-year institution by the state of ...
Winston Salem Chronicle
Kilah's Law passes NC House, heads to Senate for vote - WGHP-TV 8
By Web Staff
RALEIGH, NC (WBTV) -- The NC House unanimously passed the bill known as Kilah's Law on Tuesday with 118 votes, WBTV reports. If passed, the bill would permit harsher sentences for those who inflict permanent physical debilitating ...
MyFOX8.com
Rule of Law » Breaking: Inspector General Report on Racialist ...
By J. Christian Adams
Former Voting Section Chief Chris Coates and I both testified about the hostility towards race-neutral law enforcement by the Justice Department. Today's report paints a disgusting portrait, confirming our accounts. Chris Coates, in response to ...
Rule of Law
Joe. My. God.: Feds Overturn Virginia's Sodomy Law
By Joe
The majority ruled that Virginia's "Crimes Against Nature" anti-sodomy provision is unconstitutional in light of a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating state laws that make sexual activity between consenting adults crimes.
Joe. My. God.

Web2 new results for law
 
Bin Laden's Son-in-Law Is Held in New York - NYTimes.com
A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who once served as a spokesman for Al Qaeda will appear in court Friday to face terrorism charges that could bring a life ...
www.nytimes.com/.../bin-laden-son-in-law-is-being-held-in-a-...
Mark Kelly Breaks the Law as a Strawpurchaser - Katie Pavlich
Mark Kelly Breaks the Law as a Strawpurchaser - Katie Pavlich: Over the weekend, husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and.
townhall.com/.../mark-kelly-breaks-the-law-as-a-strawpurchas...


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