Apr 4, 2013

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Tension spikes over assaults on law enforcement officials
Washington Post
KAUFMAN, Tex. — Law enforcement officials already on edge after the killings of two Texas prosecutors and a Colorado prison director got more reasons to worry Wednesday, as a West Virginia sheriff was fatally shot, and authorities in this northeastern ...
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Egypt's new law faces uncertain prospects
Xinhua
CAIRO, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament on Wednesday passed a new law which removes a controversial clause banning religious slogans in election campaigns. The passage of the draft law has triggered a walkout ...
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In wake of Newtown, Connecticut Governor due to sign new gun law
Reuters
(Reuters) - Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is expected on Thursday to sign a tough new gun law that restricts sales of the sort of high-capacity ammunition clips that a gunman used to massacre 26 people in minutes in a December attack on a school.
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New Jersey pols push anti-bullying law
Politico
In the wake of the firing of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, two members of Congress from New Jersey are renewing their call for passage of an anti-bullying law named after a student from the same school. Democrats Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep.
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Politico
The AM Roundup: Pro-Gun Laws Outnumber Restrictions, More
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Pushback: Five states this year have passed seven laws that strengthen gun restrictions, while 10 states have passed 17 laws that weaken them, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which tracks and promotes gun-control laws. WSJ ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Law firms prepare class action suit in chemotherapy drug case
CBC.ca
Two law firms say they are preparing a claim against Hamilton's Marchese Health Care on behalf of cancer patients in Ontario and New Brunswick who reportedly received chemotherapy cocktails at lower-than-prescribed doses. Law firms Siskinds LLP and ...
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Georgia town's new law says you must have a gun
WQOW TV News 18
ABC News - A small town in north Georgia unanimously passed an ordinance that requires every household to own a gun and ammunition. But the new law, which goes into effect in 10 days, seems to be more in reaction to talk of gun control rather than to ...
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NC renewable energy law diminished in House bill
Businessweek
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A House panel on Wednesday narrowly approved an effort to scale back and ultimately repeal a 2007 law requiring North Carolina electric utilities to generate a percentage of their power through alternative sources and locate ...
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Virginia's campaign finance law needs more teeth
Washington Post
But the Williams-McDonnell symbiosis casts an unflattering light on Virginia's anemic disclosure laws, which exempt gifts and donations of any size to a politician's immediate family. When Mr. Williams paid $15,000 to cover the food at the wedding of Mr.
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The end of Moore's Law is on the horizon, says AMD
PCWorld
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku believes Moore's Law has about 10 years of life left before ever-shrinking transistor sizes smack up against limitations imposed by the laws of thermodynamics and quantum physics. That day of reckoning for the ...
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Law enforcement leads the way in overturning convictions, group says
NBCNews.com (blog)
"To the extent that they are focused … on correcting errors that have been made, that's really good news," said Professor Sam Gross, editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a project of the law schools at the University of Michigan and ...
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NBCNews.com (blog)
Maryland: A tough new firearms safety law
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
A sweeping new law, passed Wednesday by the Maryland House of Delegates, will require the fingerprinting of gun buyers, mandate background checks, restrict availability of weapons to the mentally ill, and ban certain kinds of assault weapons and ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Mother of 'goth victim' welcomes hate crime law change
Telegraph.co.uk
She said dressing as a goth or an emo should not be treated differently in law to being gay or being from a particularly race or religion: "I believe that the majority of people who belong these sub-cultures are born with a propensity to be like that ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
The law of politics: Unemployment, Greece, gay rights
MSNBC
The stock market just hit record highs, which means nothing to most Americans. Since 2000, the last time the S&P 500 was at this level, most people's economic lives have tanked: [D]uring that stretch, economic output has grown by an average of 1.7% a ...
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MSNBC
New Colorado law shows U.S. what's possible on gun control - Obama
GMA News
DENVER - Stricter gun laws passed by Colorado's state government show it is possible to require background checks for all gun buyers without infringing on gun ownership rights, President Barack Obama will argue in a speech in the state on Wednesday.
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Kuwait Parliament Passes Law to Rescue Indebted Citizens
Businessweek
Kuwait's parliament passed a law requiring the government to pay 744 million dinars ($2.6 billion) to purchase citizens' loans taken before March 30, 2008 and write off all interest before rescheduling payments. The law, approved by 50 lawmakers out of ...
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Gov. Brewer signs anti-synthetic marijuana law
San Francisco Chronicle
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law Wednesday another ban on synthetic marijuana, touting it as a new tool for law enforcement officials struggling to go after the evolving chemical configurations that make up synthetic drugs.
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U.N. members approve global gun control with Obama's support
Examiner.com
Specifically, the lawmakers' letter demanded that the U.N. treaty exclude small arms and ammunition -- which it didn't -- and recognize an individual right to personal self-defense. The U.S. government already enforces laws regarding weapons sales to ...
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Groups suing over state's right-to-work law given go-ahead
The Detroit News
Mason, Mich. — An Ingham County judge on Wednesday rejected Attorney General Bill Schuette's request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the week-old right-to-work law on grounds the public was unlawfully locked out of the Capitol during heated debate on ...
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Convicts slip past Internet cafe law in Florida
MiamiHerald.com
Under Florida law, owners and operators of Internet cafes do not have to pass any criminal background checks to be in business. And only those companies that operate electronic sweepstakes games with prizes valued at more than $5,000 must register with ...
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Sharia law bill unnecessary, religious leaders say
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Supporters lauded Carona for fighting the sinister effort of foreign nations, and specifically sharia law, to subvert American ideals and subjugate women. One Houston-area woman read a letter from a friend who couldn't make it, describing the Pakistani ...
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Website to 'shed light' on child law
RTE.ie
A new website aimed at providing an insight into why children are taken into State care goes live today. Small children being left without food or heating and the circumstances surrounding the abandoning of a baby in a wheelie bin are among the details ...
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Local law enforcement officials shaken by string of shootings
Daily Mail - Charleston
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Local law enforcement officials are no strangers to death threats, but a recent string of killings across the country, including the shooting of Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum on Wednesday, left many feeling shaken. Kim Aaron, a ...
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Florida overturns law which stopped Britons renting cars with their UK driving ...
Daily Mail
A new law which banned holidaymakers from driving cars in Florida unless they had an international driving permit has been repealed. The U-turn comes after British visitors carrying a UK driving licence suddenly found themselves unable to hire cars in ...
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Daily Mail
Top officials review law, order scene in region
Times of India
KANPUR: In view of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, DGP A C Sharma and Principal Secretary (Home) R M Srivastava convened a high-level at the Circuit House here on Wednesday. They issued necessary instructions to the IG, DIG, ...
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Hawaii senators restrict scope of shield law
San Francisco Chronicle
"It is an outrage," said Jeff Portnoy, an attorney for the Hawaii Shield Law Coalition which represents 16 media organizations including the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and The Associated Press. "After all the work we did five years ago, this is a ...
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Political parties criticise law enforcers who insist there aren't any no-go areas
The Express Tribune
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MPA Adil Khan, who won this seat in the previous elections, blamed the government, the law enforcers and even the Awami National Party (ANP) for allowing this neighbourhood to become a no-go area. Clarifying that ...
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Law change needed for rape cases
Stuff.co.nz
Changes are needed to the provision that can see a rape complainant's sexual history publicised in court, the Law Commission says. Under the Evidence Act 2006, a rape-case defendant can submit evidence on a complainant's sexual experience during a ...
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Novartis judgement historic, reaffirms position of Indian law: Sharma
Hindu Business Line
It reaffirms the position of Indian law and, in particular, provisions of Section 3D which mandates the need for a substantive innovation while deciding on a case for grant of a fresh patent," Sharma said in an official statement to the media. The ...
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Hindu Business Line

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Connecticut lawmakers pass tough gun control law — RT USA
By RT
Connecticut lawmakers have approved what seems to be one of the toughest gun control laws in the US.
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Connecticut Passes Nation's Strictest Gun Law In Wake Of Sandy ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers pass wide-ranging gun control law in response to Newtown school shooting.
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Nevada Sued Over Gay Teen Sex Law - Business Insider
By Erin Fuchs
"This outdated, discriminatory law should have been removed long ago. This lawsuit seeks to ensure that no Nevadan can be prosecuted under this unconstitutional, discriminatory law again," ACLU Interim Executive Director Tod Story said in ...
Business Insider
Law enforcement leads the way in overturning bad convictions ...
By Miranda Leitsinger
The number of cases in which prosecutors or police helped exonerate people convicted of crimes surged in 2012, passing 50 percent for the first time, a research group said Wednesday. Authorities led or cooperated on investigations into 34 ...
Newsvine - U.S. News - Articles
Sponsor of Gun Law Doesn't Know How Guns Work | Washington ...
By Washington Free Beacon Staff
Sponsor of Gun Law Doesn't Know How Guns Work. Follow @FreeBeacon. BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff April 3, 2013 5:56 pm. A lead sponsor of legislation that would limit magazine capacity does not appear to know how firearm ...
Washington Free Beacon
Top Va. Republican Urges Court to Keep Anti-Sodomy Law | NBC4 ...
By DOMENICO MONTANARO
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) is urging a panel of state judges to overturn its decision declaring an anti-sodomy law unconstitutional.
NBC4 Washington - Top Stories
Daily Kos: Ken Cuccinelli asks court to reinstate Virginia sodomy law ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Hunter)
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli has filed a petition with the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond asking the full 15-judge court to reconsider a decision by a three-judge panel last month that overturned the state's sodomy ...
Daily Kos
Law enforcement salutes slain Mingo County, WV sheriff
It has been a day full of tears and disbelief as more and more people learned of Sheriff Eugene Crum's death. Members of law enforcement and others that knew him well say he leaves behind a crime and drug fighting legacy that will live on.
WKYT - Home - Headlines
Say Anything North Dakota Senate Passes Tougher Voter ID Law ...
By Rob Port
The North Dakota Senate today passed HB1332 on a 30-16 vote. The bill would toughen the state's voter ID laws, requiring an ID to vote (or the ID of someone who is vouching for another voter). According to Democrats, this will disenfranchise ...
Say Anything
Bad Law of the Week: S. 33AA Liquor Act (NT) - moral panic posing ...
By Bob Gosford
Moral panic or good law and policy? S. 33AA of the NT Liquor Act as a blunt instrument of social control.
The Northern Myth
Colorado gun law could push company to move business to ...
A new Colorado crackdown on firearm magazine capacity may possibly send jobs and business to Logansport.
News | WLFI TV
Petition law overhaul advances in Senate (AUDIO)
By Bob Priddy
Petition law overhaul advances in Senate (AUDIO). April 4, 2013 By Bob Priddy. An overhaul of Missouri's petition process is on the verge of approval by the state Senate. The bill does not tackle some of the big issues—the large amounts of ...
Missourinet
Christian leaders decide to shelve the Orthodox law | Ya Libnan ...
By Ya Libnan
Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai held a meeting in Bkerke with several Christian officials to discuss the electoral law for the upcoming elections . Change and Reform Bloc Leader MP Michel Aoun, Marada Party Leader MP ...
Ya Libnan

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Rhode Island: Marijuana Decriminalization Law Takes Effect ...
Legislation signed into law last year decriminalizing minor marijuana possession offenses takes effect on Monday, April 1. Presently, possessing cannabis in the ...
blog.norml.org/.../rhode-island-marijuana-decriminalization-la...
Virginia Gov. Candidate Cuccinelli Defending Law That Forbids Oral ...
Last month, three judges on the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit deemed a Virginia anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. The provision, part of the state's ...
www.motherjones.com/.../cuccinelli-wants-rehearing-virginias...
Connecticut Passes Nation's Strictest Gun Law In Wake Of Sandy ...
WASHINGTON -- Both houses of the Connecticut legislature passed some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation Wednesday night and early Thursday ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../connecticut-gun-control-sandy-h...


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