Mar 15, 2013

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NYC Law Aims to Protect Unemployed from Discrimination
Fox Business
Despite a veto from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the laws will take effect in three months and makes New York City among a handful of other cities in the U.S. with similar protections in place. New Jersey was the first state to enact a similar law ...
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Employers Blast Fees From New Health Law
Wall Street Journal
Insurance companies, which helped put the fee in the law, say the fee is essential to prevent rates from skyrocketing when insurers get an influx of unhealthy customers next year. The fee is part of a new insurance landscape created by the health law ...
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Wall Street Journal
Alabama: Governor Signs Law Granting Private School Tax Credits
New York Times
Gov. Robert Bentley signed a law on Thursday granting tax credits to families who want to send their children to private schools or better-performing public schools. The act was passed amid heated controversy, not only about its substance, but about ...
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McConnell vows to repeal Obama health care law
U.S. News & World Report
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is vowing to repeal President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law. McConnell spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference next to a tower of 20,000 pages of ...
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Osama Bin Laden's Son-In-Law Turns War On Terror Into War On Confusion
Forbes
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, was recently arrested in Jordan and arraigned in Manhattan federal court where he was charged with conspiracy to kill Americans. Prosecutors do not believe that he served in an operational capacity ...
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The AM Roundup: Health Law Fees; A Defining Moment for Roberts, More
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Eyes on Roberts: Chief Justice John Roberts doubtless knows "that history is going in a certain direction," even if he isn't persuaded that the Constitution requires invalidation of laws denying recognition to gay marriages, said Richard Pildes, a law ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Boston victims decry visit to church with Law link
Boston Herald
ROME — To the dismay of church sex abuse victims, Pope Francis made his first stop yesterday at the church where Boston's disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law was assigned as archpriest after the scandal engulfed the worldwide Catholic community.
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Can Arizona Make You Show Your Birth Certificate to Vote?
Slate Magazine
The groups challenging Arizona's law, in addition to the Inter Tribal Council, include the League of Women Voters, the League of United Latin American Citizens Arizona, and the Hopi tribe. The groups say they represent Native American and Latin ...
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Slate Magazine
Jude Law Sues Fireplace Company -- I'm Too Hot For You!
TMZ.com
Jude Law is HEATED over allegations his face has been hijacked by a Canadian fireplace company ... and now, he's filed a lawsuit. Jude filed the lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court, claiming Paloform illegally used his face in advertising on its ...
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TMZ.com
Lawmakers tussle over health law's effect on premiums
The Hill (blog)
In the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Health, GOP members strongly predicted that the law would raise premiums, particularly on younger people in the individual and small-group markets. Democrats defended the law's anti-discriminatory ...
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Why does Hawaii oppose Jessica's Law?
Fox News
He said he would think about I guess is Jessica's law and here this is Jessica's law that's right it's my bill which is exactly modeled after Jessica's law. Instead. A bill came forth that. Was supported by the local prosecutors and by the Judiciary ...
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Jennifer Garner: It's Against the Law Not to Wear Sunscreen!
Just Jared
Jennifer Garner chats on the phone while heading for lunch at R+D Kitchen on Thursday (March 14) in Santa Monica, Calif. Earlier in the day, the 40-year-old actress was spotted walking hand in hand with her adorable daughter Seraphina while exiting ...
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Just Jared
Covington, Milbank, Clifford Chance: Business of Law
Bloomberg
Berman, who will be senior of counsel at Covington, said he considered joining several law firms after returning to the private sector after 40 years. "At every one of these place I talked to there was somebody I had a good relationship with but there ...
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Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate Change
Bloomberg
Lawyers and lobbyists are now waiting for the White House's Council on Environmental Quality to issue the long bottled-up standards for how agencies should address climate change under the National Environmental Policy Act, signed into law by President ...
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Bloomberg
Three Entertainment Law Veterans Launch New Hollywood Firm
Hollywood Reporter
A graduate of Loyola Law School in 1996, the attorney also represents Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Claire Danes and Lena Dunham. STORY: Hollywood's 25 Top Power Lunch Restaurants. Mirell is a publicity rights expert with strength in First Amendment ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Morningstar Law adds practice area
Triangle Business Journal (blog)
MORRISVILLE – The Morningstar Law Group expanded Thursday with a new practice area, in employment law, attorneys with the firm said. Amie Carmack joined the firm on Thursday as a partner. She was most recently with the Raleigh office of K&L Gates.
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Governor signs law making concealed carry permits good for 5 years
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Larry Rhoden, of Union Center, has said that he eventually wants to change the law so that once people get concealed weapons permits they would not have to undergo separate background checks every time they buy a gun. That would require issuing ...
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State cites 11 businesses for liquor law violations
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
SPRINGFIELD — Eleven area businesses face discipline from the Illinois Liquor Control Commission for violations of state liquor control laws. Among those cited are six Champaign County businesses that were checked for underage violations on Feb.
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The List: Silicon Valley IP law firms
Silicon Valley Business Journal
To learn which IP law firm topped the list and for a sneak peek at the rest of the top 5 IP law firms, check out the slide show at right. This week the Business Journal published a list of the top IP firms in Silicon Valley*. The list was the total ...
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India army chief opposes ending tough emergency law
GlobalPost
India's army chief said on Friday he opposed ending tough emergency laws in insurgency-hit areas of Kashmir and the northeast that offer security forces near complete legal immunity. The statement by General Bikram Singh, India's chief of army staff ...
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Mississippi law hobbles effort to curb obesity in fattest state: Editorial
NJ.com (blog)
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg went too far banning large-size sugary sodas in some stores and restaurants. A New York Supreme Court justice was right to strike down the law as capricious and arbitrary. Now Mississippi legislators are overreaching ...
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Gunman's Mother Fights for 'Laura's Law'
NBC 7 San Diego
"Laura's Law" is a California law that could treat severely mentally ill patients before they turn violent. Right now in San Diego if a mentally ill person over the age of 18 refuses treatment, there is virtually nothing family members or doctors can ...
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NBC 7 San Diego
Mother angry over delay in 'Kilah's law'
Charlotte Observer
The North Carolina Senate has delayed a bill that would mean more time in prison for child abusers. The bill is called Kilah's Law, named after a Charlotte-area girl who suffered severe brain damage. Police say Kilah Davenport's stepfather threw her ...
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Charlotte Observer
Small Businesses Pursue Health Law 'Loophole'
Kaiser Health News
NorthBay Adventure is the kind of small business that could be expected to buy medical insurance for workers under sweeping health-act rules taking effect in 2014. But executive director George Comfort says that's not likely to happen. Instead ...
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In Mass., the public records law exempts gov.
Worcester Telegram
James Eldridge, a Democrat from Acton, agrees the governor and the Legislature shouldn't be exempted from the public records law. Like Wilmot, he also concedes that persuading lawmakers to subject themselves and the governor to the law is a tough sell.
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Court: Hijacking ex-employee's LinkedIn account violates PA law
Ars Technica
Last year we covered the case of Linda Eagle, whose former employer, Edcomm, kept control of her LinkedIn account after firing her. In his October ruling, Judge Ronald Buckwalter of the District Court in Eastern Pennsylvania rejected the theory that ...
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Quirk in water law allows SV project to move ahead
Arizona Daily Star
When deciding if a development should be blocked, Arizona water regulators lack the power to consider whether groundwater pumping for the project could lower the neighboring San Pedro River. That's the new ruling by an administrative law judge, who ...
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Medical law and ethics: portrait of a partnership
OUPblog (blog)
In many textbook titles and university courses, 'medical law' and 'ethics' are spoken of in the same breath, as one might speak of Darby and Joan. It's often assumed that there's a solid, uncomplicated marriage, in which each partner knows his or her ...
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OUPblog (blog)
In Mass., public records law exempts governor
Boston.com
The law covers a broad array of documents made or received by ''any officer or employee of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth.'' Among those who say they aren't covered by the ...
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Online bullying law now in effect
The News Journal
Bullies aren't just a playground menace anymore, and a new state law to battle bullies who target victims through online communication went into effect this week. Schools often have struggled with responding to online bullies, saying they don't have a ...
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Blogs15 new results for law
 
New York City Unemployment Discrimination Law - Business Insider
By Vivian Giang
New York City passed a bill yesterday making it illegal for employers to reject job applicants based on their unemployment status. While the new law makes New York City the biggest protector of unemployed job-seekers in the nation, it could ...
Business Insider
'Need for law' on public debt - The Nation
'Need for law' on public debt. Experts want Parliament to control govt spending on populist projects.
NationMultimedia.com - Business
Odisha Law Minister quits after his daughter-in-law files dowry case
Odisha Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty resigned from his position on Friday after his daughter-in-law filed a dowry case against him, his son, his wife and his daughter. Raghunath Mohanty met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and ...
IBN Top Headlines
The NYPD Declares Martial Law in Brooklyn | uscop.org
By Gregory Malandrucco
On the heels of three nights of protests over the police slaying of 16 year old Kimani Gray, the NYPD has turned the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn into a State of Exception, claiming emergency powers to suspend the constitutional ...
uscop.org
Ignorance of the law is legally an excuse for police officers | Cop Block
By Georgia Sand
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse." Undoubtedly, everyone has heard this tired mantra before. Many people do in fact break the law because they in all earnestness were not aware that whatever petty, trivial transgression they had committed ...
Cop Block
2013 MLB Draft: Keith Law's Top 50 Prospects, Chat - The Crawfish ...
By jsams
Keith Law released an updated ranking of his Top 50 MLB Draft Prospects today, and answered a lot of follow up questions in his chat. Law's top 3 are Appel-Manaea-Meadows, but after that, I find most of his rankings to be a little bizarre.
The Crawfish Boxes - All Posts
Law enforcement — and leprechauns - The Salt Lake Tribune
This St. Patrick's Day weekend, leprechauns across the Wasatch Front have a message for those who choose to imbibe: "Keep yer pot o' gold. Don't drive drunk." Statuettes of leprechauns, courtesy of the Utah Highway ...
All - The Salt Lake Tribune
State lawmaker wants to repeal renewable energy law | MyFOX8.com
By Mitch Carr
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A North Carolina state representative has proposed a bill to repeal a 2007 law that requires Duke Energy to get some of its energy from alternative sources, such as solar power. Rep.
MyFOX8.com
Conoy Township passes law restricting drone use | WPMT FOX43
By trangfox43
Conoy Township, Lancaster County is the first municipality to pass a law restricting the use of drones.
WPMT FOX43
Pope can't alter Catholic law on celibacy, female priesthood – Priest
By adekunle
Umuahia – A Catholic Priest in Umuahia, Rev. Fr. Leo Amafili, has said that the new Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, cannot alter the Catholic doctrine on celibacy and female priesthood. Amafili, the Parish priest of St. Finbarr's Catholic Church, ...
Vanguard News
Utah Legislators Object To Domestic Violence Law Out Of Concern ...
By jonathanturley
Utah flag What was expected to be a simple correction of its domestic violence statute in Utah to include non-married couples, triggered a disturbing outburst of homophobic and extremist views. The bill was opposed by the Gun Owners of ...
JONATHAN TURLEY
Employment law 2013: Compliance quiz for managers — Business ...
By The HR Specialist
Legal complaints filed by employees against their employers have risen dramatically over the past decade. Managers can do their part to prevent legal disputes by knowing the basics of employment law. How well do you know the law?
Business Management Daily
Legal Theory Blog: Hovenkamp on "Law's History" by Rabban
By Lawrence Solum
Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Iowa - College of Law) has posted Rabban's Law's History on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is a brief review of David Rabban's new book: Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic ...
Legal Theory Blog
Removing Mayawati's wallpapers crashed Law & Order: Akhilesh ...
By Pagal Patrakar
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has come up with an explanation for deteriorating law and order situation in the state. He blames Mayawati for sabotaging his government.
Faking News
Law Suit Against NY Gun Law Thrown Out by Supreme Court Judge ...
By C. Zawadi Morris
Judge denies a law suit by Second Amendment supporters who claim state's new gun law violates the Constitution.
Prospect Heights Patch


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