Apr 22, 2013

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Law school dean regrets 'censorship' of Chief Justice Roberts visit
Washington Post
It was quite a coup for Lewis & Clark Law School to land Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to preside over its moot court competition earlier this month. But the event has not produced the kind of headlines that Dean Robert Klonoff had hoped. Indeed ...
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Top Court Denies Free-Speech Challenge to Tobacco Law
Wall Street Journal
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a tobacco industry challenge to a 2009 federal law that required graphic warning labels on cigarettes and expanded marketing restrictions on tobacco products. The challengers, including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
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Law Firm Quits Political Intelligence Work After Senator's Query
Bloomberg
The law firm being questioned by a U.S. senator over whether one of its lobbyists obtained and shared confidential government information on Medicare rates will no longer work with so-called political intelligence firms. Greenberg Traurig LLP has ...
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Law enforcement elite set to question Boston bombing suspect
MSNBC
Once Tsarnaev is able to speak, he will be questioned by the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG), a coalition formed through a 2009 Executive Order, of experienced interrogators from across law enforcement, intelligence, and national security ...
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Fordham Law and the Woodrow Wilson Center Release Report on Privacy ...
Wall Street Journal
The Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) at Fordham Law School and the Commons Lab of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today issued a report titled "Privacy and Missing Persons after Natural Disasters," prepared as ...
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Law minister silent, but opposition continue to pressure Congress
Firstpost
Until recently, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar was always willing to give his opinion or jump into a debate on any issue, whether or not he was directly involved. He would also take the onus on himself to defend the Congress Party and the Prime Minister's ...
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Internet rights activists launch #CISPABlackout over 'Big Brother law'
euronews
The US House of Representatives may have voted in favour of the controversial online security law Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) on April 18, but privacy rights activists are not giving up the fight. Among them, hacktivist group ...
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Video: Bruins give law enforcement officers the shirts off their backs
Boston.com (blog)
The Bruins also honored law enforcement on Saturday by taking the ice before the game wearing the caps of the Massachusetts State Police, the Boston Police, and the Watertown Police in homage to the efforts those departments had made over the ...
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Law governing in-state guns is largely political - The Hutchinson News
Hutchinson News
Legislators who pushed for the new law have said they're trying to rein in a federal government that threatens to careen out of control and violate the right to bear arms guaranteed by both the U.S. and Kansas constitutions. The new law, signed by ...
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Anti-gay marriage protests ahead of new French law
guardian.co.uk
Thousands of people gather in Paris to protest against an imminent bill that will allow gay couples to marry and adopt children. The law is due to be approved on Tuesday as it goes to vote in the majority-socialist parliament on Tuesday. Progress of ...
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Gun Control Law? Not now.
DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
The United States Senate tried to address the question "should there be new laws regulating guns?" The Senate is dominated by small rural states such as Wyoming, North Dakota, and yes Iowa. These states with tiny populations get two Senators.
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Law and Politics: The Boston legal issues
MSNBC
Benjamin Wittes, an author and co-director of the Harvard/Brookings Project on Law and Security, has a detailed argument against that tack on the Lawfare blog, called, Four Reasons Sens. Graham and McCain are Wrong. More broadly, attorney Glenn ...
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Zimbabwe Prepares Law to Seize Company Stakes Without Paying
Bloomberg
Zimbabwe's government is preparing a law that would allow it to seize controlling stakes in companies without compensation, according to a draft of the legislation obtained by Bloomberg News. The law would be an amendment to a 2007 act that compels ...
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Reporters Need a Federal Shield Law
Wall Street Journal
Although most states provide some protection for journalists in the form of a reporter's "privilege," or "shield law," the extent of these provisions varies. Fewer than half of the states (including such key media markets as New York, California and ...
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Stricter law to protect tribal women needed
Times of India
VISAKHAPATNAM: CPM politburo member Brinda Karat on Sunday called for the need to amend the criminal law to protect tribal women against the atrocities by officials and guards of forest department. Expressing concern over the increase in crimes against ...
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More amendments needed to make anti-rape law stronger: Mayawati
NDTV
New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday said an all-party meeting should be held to suggest amendments to tackle any shortcomings in the anti-rape law and also called for death penalty in cases of barbaric rapes. Participating in ...
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NDTV
German City of Hamburg Fines Google for Violating Privacy Law
Wall Street Journal
The commissioner for data protection of the German city of Hamburg said Monday he has fined Google Inc. (GOOG) for violating privacy law when collecting data for its Street View service. Commissioner Johannes Caspar ordered the U.S. Internet company to ...
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For States, Rejecting The Health Law's Medicaid Expansion Comes With ...
Kaiser Health News
The Associated Press reports on the wrinkles that state leaders will face as a result of opting against the sweeping expansion. Meanwhile, states and federal officials note possible points where flexibility will be in play. Also, news outlets report on ...
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Media law
Times of India
The three-member team comprising Harshad Pathak, Divya Srinivasan and I took part in this competition, which was based on media law. It involved balancing and analysing the conflicts between the freedom of speech and expression of citizens in a ...
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Law alone cannot prevent rape: Speaker
Hindustan Times
"Law alone cannot, however, prevent such incidents. A change in the attitude of people and society only will check such inhumane crimes against children and women," Kumar said making a reference to the gang rape of a five-year-old by "senseless persons ...
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Hood supports Indian adoption law
San Francisco Chronicle
The Clarion-Ledger reported (http://on.thec-l.com/ZgKeCG) Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has joined 17 other state attorneys general in supporting the law, known as the Indian Child Welfare Act, as the Supreme Court reviews a case known as ...
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Strong law just a small part of rape battle: PM Manmohan Singh
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday admitted that the country still had a long way to go in ensuring safety of women and conceded that passing a strong law was only a small part of what was needed to be done to prevent cases like the ...
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Economic Times
Jumblatt says willing to show flexibility over vote law
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said his party is ready to show flexibility in order to facilitate consensus over a hybrid electoral law for June's parliamentary elections. "With the emergence of positive signs [that rival ...
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The Daily Star
Law centre fears funding cut
Otago Daily Times
''Publicly the Ministry of Justice may say that we are being treated the same as all other law centres but in our recent national hui and in past verbal correspondence with the Ministry of Justice staff made it clear that Maori land is not a priority ...
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Otago Daily Times
Nova Scotia proposes a logical 'cyberbullying' law
National Post
The government of Nova Scotia wants a new law that would criminalize the distribution of "intimate images" without consent, and Premier Darrell Dexter is taking that message to Ottawa on Tuesday. "We all want to know that bullies and cyberbullies can ...
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National Post
Parliament won`t function unless Law Minister clarifies: BJP - Zee News
Zee News
Parliament won`t function unless Law Minister clarifies: BJP New Delhi: BJP on Monday said reports that the government had vetted the CBI report on coal mines scam show it has been interfering with the functioning of constitutional bodies and announced ...
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Supremacy of law not vandalism - The Frontier Post
Frontier Post
In his hay days at the highest military office, the man trampled the law at his will to capture the reign of power, put the honorable judges under house-arrest and used the state force to eliminate the opposition to his rule. Hence routed through the ...
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Blogs12 new results for law
 
'There Is the Law, and There Is Reality': Blaze Readers Weigh in on ...
By Madeleine Morgenstern
A decorated Army veteran and prominent military blogger described how he was arrested during a hike with his son and accused of "rudely displaying" his AR-15 in Texas. Army Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham said the officer treated him like a "street ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
How much do you know about environmental law? | OUPblog
By Alice
Happy Earth Day from our environmental law team!
OUPblog
Report: Many Ind. districts flout law on contracts - Wish TV 8
A report says more than 25 percent of Indiana school districts aren't complying with a year-old state law requiring them to post their superintendents' employment contracts on the districts' websites.
Indiana | WISH TV
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar vetted CBI's report on coal block ...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in an affidavit, is set to tell the Supreme Court of India that the probe agency's report on coal block allocation scam was shared with the Law Ministry on its request and the latter had also vetted the ...
IBN Top Headlines
Hawaii Journalism Shield Law Protects the Public's Right to Know ...
By hawaiireporter808@gmail.com (Malia Zimmerman)
Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee members voted on a version of the journalism shield bill pushed by its chair, Clayton Hee, that journalists.
Hawaii Reporter
Protesters in final bid to block France gay marriage law - Vanguard
By mbgolu
PARIS (AFP) – Thousands of opponents of a gay marriage bill thronged the streets of Paris Sunday in a last-ditch bid to block the legislation, under the watchful eye of police after recent violence over the divisive issue. The mass protest comes ...
Vanguard News
The Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Ireland
By JA Hodnicki
The importance of competition was recently emphasised when the EU/ECB/IMF 'Troika' included a number of competition specific conditions to the terms of Ireland's bailout. Both Irish and Community law recognise the right for parties injured ...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog
Not So Gladd: Clinton Heckled In Receiving Award For Opposing ...
By jonathanturley
Clinton called on the Supreme Court to strike down DOMA which he made law without acknowledging his key role. GLADD attempted to help him in this piece of historical revisionism not only with the award but the omission of his inglorious ...
JONATHAN TURLEY
Patent-Conscious Preparation for a Summer at the Beach - Patently-O
By Dennis Crouch
Last month, while preparing a presentation on U.S. IP law for a class of fashion design and communications students in Milan, Italy, I came across a patent that changed my perspective on a summer beach vacation. U.S. patent 8,371,043 ...
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
Political Advertising TV Ban (Just) Upheld, Bad Law and ...
By Daniel Isenberg
Brodies LLP's Public Law Blog covers a recent decision of the Scottish Court of Session in Whyte and Mackay Ltd v Blyth & Blyth Consulting Engineers Ltd (see also David Hart QC's UKHRB post here). The Court held that to enforce the ...
UK Human Rights Blog
Vox explains Dalrock's Law | Dalrock
By Dalrock
Read between the lines. All women should try it at least once… because that will make this long-haired woman more attractive by comparison. And more importantly, note that women will readily say anything, no matter how ridiculous, in their ...
Dalrock
Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Talk Slides on Section 230, Anti ...
By Eric
Talk Slides on Section 230, Anti-SLAPP Laws and Housing Anti-Discrimination. By Eric Goldman. On Friday I presented at the California State Bar's Fifth Annual Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Symposium. My topic was to discuss ...
Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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Gunmaker says new law forcing it to leave Connecticut - CNN.com
A manufacturer of military-style rifles says it is leaving Connecticut and is encouraging other companies to do the same after last week's signing of sweeping gun ...
www.cnn.com/2013/04/10/us/connecticut-gun-manufacturer
Newtown families: We'll keep fighting for gun law - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON (AP) — Disappointment. Disgust. Grossly unfair.
news.yahoo.com/newtown-families-well-keep-fighting-gun-la...
EU seeks to avoid housing bubbles with mortgage law deal | Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union negotiators are expected to finalize the bloc's first common rules on mortgage lending on Monday, in an attempt to ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-eu-mortgage-idUSBRE93K0EZ20130...
United Nations News Centre - Turkish law on protection of ...
The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed a new Turkish law on foreigners as an important advancement for international protection and pledged ...
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44637
BATTLEFIELD USA: De Facto State of Martial Law Declared In ...
April 20, 2013. This is what America looks like under martial law: ShelterinPlacesigninBostoncourtesyjconline.com_. Boston-martial-law14. Boston -martial-law2b ...
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Respect State Marijuana Laws Act Introduced In Congress | NORML ...
United States Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), along with a bipartisan coalition of three Republicans (Reps. Rohrabacher, Rep. Justin Amash [R-MI], ...
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