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• Ohio Chief Justice Race: Petro Out

  
  Weapons of Mass Discussion — Authority: 496
  From some highly placed sources, I have heard that former State Attorney General Jim Petro is dropping his bid to run for Chief Justice. This leaves current Supreme Court Justice Maureen OConnor as the only candidate for the Republican side. In related news, Supreme Court Justices Judith Lanzinger and Paul Pfiefer ...
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• Argentine judge suspends 1st gay marriage

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  An Argentine judge has overturned a ruling that would have allowed the first gay marriage in Latin America. Argentine judge suspends 1st gay marriage is a post from the Out Gay Life Family of Websites. Arizona: Tucson Phoenix California: Los Angeles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Colorado: ...
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• Kerchner V Obama, Three Enablers ad, Washington Times, November 30, 2009, Congress, Courts, Media, Attorney Mario Apuzzo, Constitutional Crisis of the Usurper in the Oval Office

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 567
  From Charles Kerchner, CDR USNR (Ret), and lead plaintiff in Kerchner V Obama and Congress, November 30, 2009. “This pointed and hard-hitting ad is running today in the Washington Times National Weekly addition as a full page on page 9.  Would you give it some note in your blog and do a post on it.  We need to ...
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• SCOTUS Overturns Detainee Photo Release Order

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 684
  The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a decision by the 2nd Circuit (in which Sonia Sotomayor took part) on detainee photographs. The justices sent the case back to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan, which ruled in 2008 that the pictures should be released to the public. But ...
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• Cert. Denied in Buell-Wilson

  
  California Punitive Damages — Authority: 122
  The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order today denying Fords cert. petition in Buell -Wilson v. Ford . This appears to be the end of the line for Ford, which must now pay $55 million in punitive damages (plus another $27.6 million in compensatory damages). As far as I know thats the largest punitive damages award ...
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• Torture photos will not be disclosed, says The Supreme Court

  
  WagerWeb Entertainment — Authority: 452
  The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their U.S. captors. In doing so Monday, the high court cited a recent change in federal law that allows the pictures to be withheld. The justices issued a brief, and expected, order Monday ...
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• Roby v. McKesson: Cal. Supreme Court Reduces Punitive Damages to 1-to-1 Ratio

  
  California Punitive Damages — Authority: 122
  The California Supreme Court has issued its opinion in Roby v. McKesson . I havent had a chance to read it in detail yet, but from a quick skim I see that the Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeal that the jurys $15 million punitive damages award was constitutionally excessive, and further held that any ...
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• Supreme Court Gives White House Another Chance to Block Torture Pics [Sigh]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Barack Obama said he wanted torture photos released, but then he changed his mind. The ACLU won its suit to have them released, but now the Supreme Court is sending that victory back to the Second Circuit to be reconsidered. The ACLU has been trying to get these photographs of US prisoner abuse released for ...
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• Book Review: Joan Biskupics Biography of Justice Scalia, "American Original"

  
  Reproductive Rights Prof Blog — Authority: 139
  Slate Magazine: The Alienator, by Emily Bazelon: Making sense of Justice Scalias personality—and his theory. In Joan Biskupics new biography of Antonin Scalia, American Original, the justice wears a wreath of superlatives. He is the most quoted member of the...
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• Women face extra Olympic hurdles - The Chronicle Herald

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  VANCOUVER — In the run-up to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, several female runners launched a court challenge against Olympic officials in the United States and abroad, claiming the decision not to include women’s 5,000- and 10,000-metre Continue .. Douglas MacArthur was a fellow who apparently was ...
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• Supreme Court Overturns Decision on Detainee Photos

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The Supreme Court set aside a lower court’s order that called for the release of photographs of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan being abused by American military personnel.
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• Lessons The Next Big Torrent Sites Will Learn From Mininova

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  In June 2005 when the now-famous Grokster decision was handed down, initial reaction was almost unanimous. The Internet was alive with this historic defeat – Grokster had been savaged by the Supreme Court, lost their case in the biggest possible way and would have to shut down. No other outfit would dare get ...
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• Attention Politico.com, Ben Smith, John Harris, Obama not eligible, Internet billboard, Natural born citizen, Obama attorneys, Obama birth certificate, Obama’s father Kenyan British citizen, Obama spends millions to avoid

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 567
  I am glad that Politico has lowered Obama’s status from Messiah to prophet and actually covered some of the no brainer negative aspects about his personality and administration. I am glad that Politico covered some real problem aspects of Obama, but this is still fluff journalism. “7 stories Barack Obama ...
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• Supreme Court Denies Ford Explorer Appeal

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 565
  The U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-ditch effort from Ford Motor Co. Monday to reverse an $82.6 million decision in a product-liability case involving the Ford Explorer, according to the Wall Street Journal. California resident Benetta Buell-Wilson and her husband sued Ford in 2002, the year the Ford ...
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• NIL DESPERANDUM

  
  The Barrister Bard — Authority: 100
    The first major judgment of the newly created Supreme Court is, on any view, a major disappointment. I refer to the long running saga of bank charges, and whether or not the banks can impose these charges with impunity without having to justify them to anybody, least of all their long suffering customers.   ...
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• Cert. grant in Morrison v. National Australia Bank: Is there federal subject-matter jurisdiction over "foreign-cubed" securities class action?

  
  Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog — Authority: 429
  Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd. (08-1191). The questions presented are: 1) Do anti-fraud provisions of U.S. securities laws extend to transnational frauds when (a) foreign-based parent company conducted substantial business in United...
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• An Honest Debate

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 614
  Few would dispute that employees owe a duty of honest services to their employer. And a secret scheme by an employee to take money from an agency or company certainly sounds like a crime.
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• Supreme Court sides with government in detainee photo case

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff No surprise here: The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their U.S. captors. In doing so Monday, the high court cited a recent change in federal law that allows the pictures to be withheld. Ive written ...
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• Supreme Court Nixes ACLU Bid for Release of Detainee Abuse Photos

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 614
  Citing a new federal law that allows the government to withhold photographs of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq reportedly being abused by their United States captors, the nations top court has overturned an appellate court ruling agreeing with the American Civil Liberties Union that the Pentagon must make the images ...
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