Mar 16, 2013

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California: Judge Strikes Down Law on National Security Letters
New York Times
A federal judge on Friday struck down a law that allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation to secretly seize subscriber information from Internet companies and other communications service providers without a court warrant. The ruling, by Judge Susan ...
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Fish Populations in the United States Rebound
New York Times
Many commercial fishing stocks off the United States coast that were depleted by decades of overfishing are returning to abundance, thanks largely to a 1996 law that effectively ordered limits on catches until the fish populations had rebounded, a ...
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Tougher NY law now restricts private gun sales
Wall Street Journal
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's new gun control law now requires federal background checks for private firearms sales. The provision taking effect Saturday requires checks by a licensed gun dealer, who can charge $10 and issue a form showing the ...
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Criminal Lawyer Is Barred From Working in US Court
New York Times
Ivan S. Fisher, a prominent criminal defense lawyer, has been barred from practicing law in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the site of many of his celebrated trials, including representing a New York mafia boss in the well-known pizza connection ...
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Secretary who stole $123000 from law firm sentenced to 3 years in prison
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
ROXBURY — A legal secretary who stole nearly $125,000 from the law firm where she worked was sentenced today to three years in prison, officials said. The sentence is approximately the same amount of time Kathleen Lawes, of Roxbury Township, had ...
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Jude Law Lawsuit: Actor Sues Fireplace Maker For Using Images Of Him In Ads
Huffington Post
According to E! Online, the suit -- filed this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court -- states that Law is one of "the most recognized, highly regarded, critically acclaimed, and commercially valuable motion picture actors in the world" and that ...
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Jude Law Lawsuit: Actor's Career Too Hot for Fireplace Ads
Moviefone
The actor filed suited against Canadian fireplace company Paloform on allegations that they used his face in their marketing materials. Law claims that Paloform used unauthorized images of himself in advertising on their website, as well as on the ...
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Gun law's focus on mentally ill stirs anger and confusion
Syracuse.com
Under a new law that takes effect today, mental health providers are being asked to report to the state the names of patients they believe are at risk of harming themselves or others. That information will be used to determine if the patient has a gun ...
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Law Schools and Other Shameless Schemes
Wall Street Journal
The mechanics of the Law School 419 Scam are very similar to those of the legendary Nigerian con job. First, the pigeon is asked to pony up a substantial amount of money to attend his first year in law school, despite the fact that law schools are ...
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Wall Street Journal
Maggie Brooks: County workers not ready for gun law change
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
N.Y.'s new gun law nabs first arrest: A Silver Creek, N.Y. man was arrested for attempting to sell two semi-automatic assault weapons to an undercover police investigator, violating the state's new SAFE Act.
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Judge Strikes Down Secretive Surveillance Law
Wall Street Journal
A federal judge this week struck down a controversial set of laws allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to seek people's records without a court's approval, saying the strict secrecy orders demanded by the laws are not constitutional.
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GOP Lawmaker Who Pushed Tough Immigration Law Wants it Overturned
Fox News Latino
It took a young woman, who put a human face on the immigration issue, to get a former Utah legislator to rethink a tough immigration law he pushed. Republican Stephen Sandstrom, a former state representative in Utah, said this week that it would be ...
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Tough new gun law in New York state nets first arrest
USA TODAY
A 33-year-old man from western New York state is the first person to be charged under the state's strict new gun law that was passed in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings. Prosecutors said Benjamin Wassell, of Silver Creek, N.Y., was ...
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Obscure law can speed up Franklin County demolition
Columbus Dispatch
Franklin County officials are turning to a little-used provision of state law to demolish blighted properties without first filing for foreclosure.It's a way to start work while they wait for Prosecutor Ron O'Brien to hire lawyers to handle the glut of ...
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Columbus Dispatch
DC anti-SLAPP law goes before federal appeals judges
Washington Post (blog)
The Sherrod case, along with a number of other cases under litigation, have raised the issue of whether the local law can apply in the federal courts here — a crucial test for the D.C. law, which has been invoked in numerous cases involving, among ...
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Mississippi food law draws scoffs from Bloomberg
Columbus Dispatch
NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday that he was shocked when a judge this week invalidated an anti-obesity law that would have blocked sales of super-sized sodas, and he took a jab at Mississippi politicians for passing their ...
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In Defense of the Suicidal Columbia Law Mother
Above the Law
Elie's story earlier today about Cynthia Wachenheim, a Columbia Law School graduate and New York court attorney who took her own life and almost killed her infant son, has generated a lot of controversy. See, for example, the more than 100 comments on ...
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Above the Law
Supreme court justice explains history of water law
Fort Morgan Times
(This is the first part of a two-part series on a water forum held at Morgan Community College this week.) In the 1970s, agriculture used 93 percent of Colorado's water -- but today it only uses 86 percent. That shows how much water has been ...
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Panicked porn troll Prenda Law now dismissing pending lawsuits
Ars Technica
The embattled copyright trolling firm Prenda Law is seeking to contain the fallout from a looming identity theft scandal by voluntarily dismissing lawsuits filed by the shell company AF Holdings. A Minnesota man named Alan Cooper has charged that ...
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The Best Law Schools For Getting Rich Quick
Above the Law
Apparently there's no such thing as "rankings fatigue" in this world, because hot on the heels of the release of the 2014 U.S. News law school rankings, we've got another set of rankings. These rankings, brought to us by Forbes, focus on one of the ...
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Above the Law
Brazil's oil revenue-sharing law goes into effect; producing states file ...
Washington Post
SAO PAULO — A new oil law that gives a greater share of royalty revenues from Brazil's vast oil fields to non-producing states went into effect Friday and producing states filed appeals against it with the Supreme Court. The law was published in the ...
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'Heartbeat' abortion ban almost law in North Dakota
Columbus Dispatch
Jack Dalrymple generally opposes abortion but has not said whether he will sign the bill into law. It's one of several anti-abortion measures the state legislature has weighed this session. The vote came with almost no debate in the Senate and after ...
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Christian County officials address records law
Springfield News-Leader
The Sunshine Law requires that each request for access to a public record be acted on no later than the end of the third business day following the date the request is received by the custodian. If access is denied, the custodian must explain in ...
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University of Oregon adjunct law professor cited for theft, harassment ...
OregonLive.com
jamesolmsted.jpg View full size Adjunct law professor James L. Olmsted, left, arguing with unidentified students during a confrontation Thursday on the University of Oregon campus. YouTube. An incident Thursday on the University of Oregon campus ended ...
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Uh Oh: Bieber Crosses Line But Not The Law On Lohan Tax Remarks
Forbes
I would agree that this might be true in some circumstances, such as disclosure to attorneys, but I would assert that many of those disclosures are barred not so much by federal law but by ethics rules (such as for attorneys and tax preparers) and ...
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Forbes
Fetal-pain law primed for Supreme Court showdown
WND.com
A federal judge has struck down parts of an Idaho law granting legal protection to some unborn children and limiting the gestational age at which babies can be aborted, saying that the provisions of the law include "an impermissible purpose and an ...
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WND.com
Law Firm Files Class Action Suit Against Atlantic Power
Motley Fool
Law firm Robins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announced this week that it's suing Atlantic Power (NYSE: AT ) for alleged false and/or misleading statements concerning the utility's business and finances. The official complaint (link opens in PDF) charges ...
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Law enforcement targets drunken driving on St. Patrick's Day weekend
Newsday (subscription)
Motorists can expect special traffic initiatives aimed at curbing drunken driving for the St. Patrick's Day weekend, law enforcement agencies on Long Island said Friday. State Police and police from Suffolk and Nassau counties said the crackdown on ...
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Newsday (subscription)
Oil-rich Brazil states rebel against revenue law
GlobalPost
Two of the biggest oil-producing states in Brazil rebelled against a new revenue-sharing law that kicked in Friday, filing a constitutional motion against the measures in the Supreme Court. The action from Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo states, both ...
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Blogs13 new results for law
 
The PM Roundup: Abortion Ban Advances; Spy Laws Struck Down ...
By Jacob Gershman
Surveillance laws struck down: A federal judge this week struck down a controversial set of laws allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to seek people's data without a court's approval, saying the strict secrecy orders demanded by the ...
Law Blog
California's mental gun law - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
By Leslie Eastman
Lynette Phillips of Upland, Calif., told TheBlaze in a phone interview Monday she had purchased a gun years ago for her husband, David, as a present. That gun, as well as two others registered to her law-abiding husband (who does not have ...
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate ... - Prison Planet.com
By yihan
In taking the step, Obama would be fulfilling a vow to act alone in the face of a Republican-run House of Representatives unwilling to pass measures limiting greenhouse gases. He'd expand the scope of a Nixon-era law that was first intended ...
Prison Planet.com
Wisconsin's New Concealed Carry Law (and a Former Marine) Just ...
By Billy Hallowell
A West Allis, Wisc., man stumbled upon a dangerous -- and potentially deadly -- situation while driving home at 4 a.m. on Tuesday. Charlie Blackmore, a Marine Corps veteran, saw a woman on the ground being repeatedly kicked in the head ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Law to prevent crime against women will be passed soon: Sonia ...
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said a law will be passed soon to prevent crime against women in the country. Sonia, who was speaking after the foundation stone laying ceremony of Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of ...
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Denied by your insurer? Health law provides a new way to fight back ...
Jacy Morgan-Barnum heeded recommendations for avoiding Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and put her baby boy, Bradley, to sleep on his back. As a result, like a growing number of infants, he developed a flattened ...
All - The Salt Lake Tribune
Law Enforcement Prepare for Holiday Weekend | WKBW News 7 ...
Patrols, other measures to combat DWI this St. Patrick's Day.
WKBW - News - Local
Sharpton pushes back against Snyder over Emergency Manager ...
By Morgan Whitaker
Acknowledging the poor condition of Detroit's finances, Sharpton argued that Snyder "undermined the will of the voters" when he signed new emergency manager legislation into law only a few weeks after Michiganders repealed it in the ...
MSNBC
Law School Rankings Continue to Measure What's Probably Not So ...
By Daniel Luzer
A number of law school deans immediately attempted to diminish the rankings' value. Above The Law gathered responses from University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Michigan State University College of Law and Brooklyn Law School all ...
College Guide
Experts calling for tanning bed law change | KFOR.com
By KFOR-TV
Getting a tan in the winter is not a hard thing to do. Indoor tanning is extremely common, the laws that regulate the industry vary widely by state, with some allowing children as young as 10 to tan without parental consent.
KFOR.com
[snap] Argentina's foreign law bonds downgraded by Moody's ...
By beyondbrics
beyondbrics, from the Financial Times, brings news and comment from more than 40 emerging economies, headed by China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia and South Africa. We cover politics and economics, finance and business ...
beyondbrics
Federal Circuit to Reconsider De Novo Review of Claim ... - Patently-O
By Jason Rantanen
Patent Law Analysis by Professors Dennis Crouch and Jason Rantanen. « Welcome Judge Taranto | Main ... It goes without saying that these questions have tremendous significance for patent law. One peripheral thought - will the court hold ...
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
Oops! Implementation of RH law begins Easter Sunday
By Rappler.com
The controversial Reproductive Health Law vigorously opposed by the Catholic Church will be implemented starting Easter Sunday, March 31.
RAPPLER

Web3 new results for law
 
Home | International Programs | Columbia Law School
International Programs offers double-degree and semester study-abroad programs, a growing number of international internships has grown significantly, and ...
web.law.columbia.edu/international-programs
Practicing family Law - NCAA.com
Adam Law has a baseball pedigree. Both his grandfather and father played in the major leagues. And now it is his turn to carry on the legacy and make a name ...
www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/.../practicing-family-law
Mike Godwin on Godwin's Law and Nazi Comparisons -- Daily ...
When you first proposed Godwin's Law, it stated, simply, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler ...
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