Mar 22, 2013

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Microsoft discloses requests from law enforcement agenies worldwide
Boston Globe
NEW YORK — Microsoft on Thursday disclosed for the first time the number of requests it had received from government law enforcement agencies for data on its hundreds of millions of customers around the world, joining the ranks of Google, Twitter, and ...
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NRA joins lawsuit challenging New York's gun control law
Fox News
ALBANY, N.Y. – The National Rifle Association on Thursday joined the the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, other sportsmen's groups, firearms businesses and individual gun owners in a lawsuit challenging the state's strict new gun control law.
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Colorado governor signs civil unions into law
Fox News
DENVER – Civil unions for gay couples were signed into law in Colorado, ending a dramatic turnaround in a state where voters banned same-sex marriage in 2006. Colorado will join eight U.S. states that have civil unions or similar laws. Nine states and ...
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Judge rejects Louisiana law barring felons from owning guns
Fox News
NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans judge says a state law forbidding certain felons from possessing firearms is unconstitutional in light of an amendment passed last year that makes the right to bear arms a "fundamental right" in Louisiana. District Judge ...
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Area law enforcement to take part in global Tweet-a-Thon
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Baltimore-area police departments are among the law enforcement agencies worldwide expected to take in part Friday in the first Global Police Tweet-a-Thon on Twitter. Annapolis, Baltimore and Salisbury are among the departments in Maryland that are ...
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Critics say India rape law opens way to more abuse
Los Angeles Times
In India, there's often a disconnect between law and practice. The legal marriage age is 21 for men and 18 for women, for example, but 47% of Indian women marry younger than 18, according to a 2012 United Nations report, a higher percentage than in ...
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Senate Votes Against Key Health-Law Tax
Wall Street Journal
Republicans quickly claimed the vote as a partial victory in repealing the health-care law. "Today's bipartisan vote to repeal the medical-device tax is an important step in the right direction," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said in ...
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Obama Health Law Anniversary Finds 2 Americas
NPR
Insurance markets, or exchanges, are one prong of Obama's law, providing subsidized private coverage for middle-class households who currently can't get their own. The other major piece is a Medicaid expansion to serve more low-income people. And at ...
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Law Enforcement Blindsided By Public 'Panic' Over Drone Privacy
U.S. News & World Report
Law enforcement groups were blindsided by the public outcry over drone surveillance and are now struggling to convince lawmakers to avoid making laws that would restrict their use, several industry sources said Thursday. Proponents of unmanned aircraft ...
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U.S. News & World Report
New Yorkers boldly flout law to keep pigs
Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK — Pigs have long gotten a bad rap. The four-legged ungulates are considered so messy and stinky that they're synonymous with slovenliness: Eat too much and you're pigging out. Forget to clean up and your house is a pig pen. And when is a ...
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Colorado Civil Unions: Hickenlooper Signs Bill Into Law
Huffington Post
Supporters of civil unions say the passage in Colorado also is telling because in 1992, voters approved a ban on municipal antidiscrimination laws to protect gays. Four years later, the U.S. Supreme Court said the law, known as Amendment 2, was ...
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NY Gun Groups Sue Over Law as Maryland Permits Upheld
Businessweek
Organizations led by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association are seeking to enjoin the law to "vindicate the right of the people of the state of New York to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution," according to a ...
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As Health Reform Law Turns Three, What Should You Expect Next?
PBS NewsHour
Three years after the Affordable Care Act became law, a roundtable of reporters weighs in on what's changed for consumers, businesses and state governments -- and what you should expect next. A transcript follows.
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Chen: Barack Obama's health care law can reduce the deficit. Here's how.
Newsday
Republicans in Washington have repeatedly called on President Barack Obama to make changes to the Affordable Care Act as a part of their efforts to deal with long-term budget deficits. Although complete repeal of the law is desirable, such an outcome ...
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Newsday
Appeals court upholds key provision of Maryland's gun-control law
Washington Post
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a key provision of Maryland's gun-control laws, maintaining the state's tough restrictions on carrying handguns in public places. Gov. Martin O'Malley, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and grass-roots ...
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Experts to Congress: US law should require logs of billions of private text ...
Daily Caller
Its law enforcement and information security senior counselor Richard Salgado recently authored a report concerning National Security Letters (NSLs) — user information requests sent to Google by the FBI in the name of U.S. security. Salgado said that ...
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Daily Caller
State by state: Implementation of Obama health law
San Francisco Chronicle
A look at how states are putting in place President Barack Obama's health care law, including health insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid coverage, along with the number of people in each state who don't have health insurance: ...
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Stanley Chesley, Sidley, Paul Hastings: Business of Law
Bloomberg
Dale Kildee, a Democrat from Michigan who served 18 terms in Congress, is joining Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a senior consultant in its American Indian law and policy practice as well as affiliated Ietan Consulting LLC as a policy adviser.
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Alabama sex education law requires teachers to say that being gay is illegal
Salon
Two Alabama high school students and an unlikely team of state legislators want to repeal a 1992 law requiring educators to teach that being gay is a crime and "not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public." While there is no evidence to suggest ...
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Microsoft Finally Releases Info About Law Enforcement Snooping On Skype ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
The report reveals that in 2012, Microsoft and Skype received a total of 75,378 law enforcement requests, 4,713 of which were specific requests targeting Skype. These requests affected some 137,424* user accounts of services including Skype, Hotmail, ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)
The AM Roundup: Disabled Sue Over Web Shopping
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Window into requests: Microsoft disclosed on Thursday the number of requests it had received from government law enforcement agencies for data on its hundreds of millions of customers, joining the ranks of Google , Twitter and other Web businesses that ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Halfmoon OKs ethics law
Albany Times Union
Councilman Craig Hayner, who chairs the ethics panel that drafted the new law, issued a statement Thursday calling the rules "a comprehensive, all-inclusive, practical set of updated ethics laws that can be easily understood and implemented by the Town ...
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Judge Partially Blocks Georgia Immigration Law; Kansas Hearing Gets Emotional
Fox News Latino
A federal judge in Georgia permanently blocked the state from enforcing a key part of its sweeping immigration law, according to The Atlanta Journal Constitution. The part in question would have punished those who transport or harbor undocumented ...
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Impact of gun law debated
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Scott Armstrong, a former lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, argued that the New York law does not address the issue of violence, and Judge Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, said he expects many issues to ...
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Federal judge: 'Clipping' news articles violates copyright law
Raw Story
Meltwater was backed in the case by the online activist groups Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with legal assistance from Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. These groups argued that an unfavorable decision ...
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Raw Story
How the gun-law backlash made the NRA stronger
The Week Magazine
A series of high-profile shootings last year, capped by the Sandy Hook massacre, sparked widespread outrage and renewed calls for tighter gun laws. After Sandy Hook in particular, which left 26 dead, most of them children, the NRA faced its most ...
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The Week Magazine
Which Law Schools Had the Highest Yield Rate?
Above the Law
With LSAT takers down to a 30-year low, and with law school applications dwindling by the day, law schools are hoping that only the best and brightest will choose their institutions. Schools will do anything to protect their coveted yield rate, the ...
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Above the Law
Andrew Cuomo objects to gun control law he signed two months ago
Twitchy
The gun-control law, approved in January, banned the sale of magazines that hold more than seven rounds of ammunition. But, Mr. Cuomo said Wednesday, seven-round magazines are not widely manufactured. And, although the new gun law provided an ...
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Tenn. AG to defend tort law in meningitis lawsuit
Knoxville News Sentinel
Reed's attorneys claim the law that caps damages at $750,000 for non-economic damages and $500,000 for punitive damages is unconstitutional. The lawsuit says that it deprives him of his protected right to trial by jury and usurps the powers of the ...
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Blogs14 new results for law
 
Michelle Malkin » Gov. Cuomo: Our gun law permitted something ...
By Doug Powers
Gov. Cuomo: Our gun law permitted something that doesn't exist, so we're asking you to pretend it does anyway.
Michelle Malkin
Microsoft posts its first Law Enforcement Requests Report, shows ...
By Jon Fingas
Civil liberty advocates have had access to Google's Transparency Report and a handful of equivalents to understand just how frequently governments want.
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Liberal Law Prof: Sen. Feinstein's Gun Ban Full of Loopholes, Likely ...
By Ken Shepherd
While much of the media reaction about Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to scrap the assault weapons ban has been predictably shrill and overwrought, to its credit the Daily Beast ran an interesting analysis from a liberal law professor ...
NewsBusters - Exposing Liberal...
Changes to teacher eval law could ease city-labor dispute (again ...
By Geoff Decker
For the second year in a row, legislators are revising the state's teacher evaluation law in part because of New York City's difficulties in complying with.
GothamSchools » Newsroom
LobbyPlag – Who is really writing the law? | Open Knowledge ...
By Martin Virtel
Looking into the details of Privacy Law is not normally a crowd-pleaser, and like most laws this one was being made out sight, watched over only by a few specialists. This is the norm especially for the EU parliament, which still doesn't attract a ...
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Gun Companies Boycotting Law Enforcement In Anti-Gun States ...
By Kate
A number of gun companies have taken some major steps to show that they do not support, and will not tolerate, the double-standard practiced by individuals labeling themselves law enforcement in regards to firearms. Tim Brown shared the ...
Cop Block
Civil unions signed into law in Colorado | The Salt Lake Tribune
Denver • Civil unions for gay couples got the governor's signature in Colorado on Thursday, punctuating a dramatic turnaround in a state where voters banned same-sex marriage in 2006 and restricted protections for gays two ...
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Southern Poverty Law Center alleges bullying of gay student in ...
By csteube@sunherald.com (CHRISTINA STEUBE)
MOSS POINT -- The Southern Poverty Law Center claims that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students have been harassed by students and faculty members within the Moss Point School District.
The Sun Herald -- Homepage
University of Hawaii Law school's intellectual property student moot ...
By hawaiireporter808@gmail.com (Malia Zimmerman)
William Richardson School of Law A student moot court team from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa swept the.
Hawaii Reporter
Baldwin County law enforcement and beach cities warn about ...
By Marc D. Anderson | manderson@al.com
As the county's roughly 30000 students get ready to enjoy spring break as soon as the bell rings Friday afternoon, District Attorney Hallie Dixon, county law enforcement and the mayors of Baldwin's beach cities are warning students, parents ...
Real-Time News from Mobile
Microsoft got over 75,000 law enforcement info requests in 2012 ...
By John Callaham
Microsoft has released its first ever yearly Law Enforcement Requests Report, stating that in 2012 it received over 75000 requests for customer account information from law enforcement agencies.
Neowin
Constitutional Law Prof Blog Features Students' Discussions of ...
By cunylaw
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments next week in the case challenging the constituationality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This week, leading up to those arguments, four CUNY Law students examine, in guest posts ...
CUNY Newswire
Speaker urges appeal of state conscience law
By Mary Farucci
Speaker of the House Tim Jones is urging Attorney General Chris Koster to appeal the court ruling throwing out the state's conscience law on contraception insurance coverage. A federal judge says federal law takes precedence over state ...
Missourinet
Obama health law anniversary finds two Americas - seattlepi.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years, two elections, and one Supreme Court decision after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, its promise of health care for the uninsured may be delayed or undercut in much of the country ...
seattlepi.com: Health News From...

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Top Philippine court hits pause on divisive contraception law - CNN ...
The Philippine Supreme Court has held up the introduction of a controversial new law to provide government-funded contraception and sex education classes.
www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/world/asia/philippines-health-law
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