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• Case Clothed

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Somewhere between Milton Berle yukking it up in a dress in the early days of television and 1999’s gender drama Boys Don’t Cry, the appropriate reaction to seeing someone in the duds of the other gender got a whole lot more complicated.
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• Taking Techs to Trial

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  It’s one thing to demand that the prosecutor produce a technician to testify on the lab report at a criminal trial. It’s quite another to shift the burden to the defendant to find and bring in the lab tech.
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Corruption in High Office

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 526
  Legal Dictionary Main Entry: bribe Function: noun : a benefit (as money) given, promised, or offered in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust (as an official or witness) —compare KICKBACK Main Entry: bribe Function: transitive verb Inflected ...
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• Did Technician’s Faulty Forensic Work Over 15 Years Affect Case Outcomes?

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Following an inspector generals report that castigates a New York state police forensic scientist for faulty work that went undetected by his supervisors over a 15-year period, some are questioning why this situation apparently hasnt resulted in any overturned convictions. "Unless they are saying that a man worked for ...
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• Polanski Child-Sex Case Survives But Appeals Court Seeks Probe of Long-Ago Trial Judge

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Renowned movie director Roman Polanskis bid to dismiss a child-sex case has been denied by a California appeals court. But, referring to allegations of misconduct by the now-deceased trial judge in the decades-old case and that a plea agreement wasnt honored, the three-judge appellate panel called for an investigation ...
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• Judge Gets 30 Days for ‘Stupidity’ of Seeking Relationship With Defendant

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Defense lawyers argued that a middle-aged Texas judge had been waylaid by the feminine wiles of a 20-something defendant in a drunken-driving case on his call. But a jury decided otherwise, convicting Harris County Criminal Court-at-Law Judge Donald Wayne Jackson of official oppression on Friday for seeking a ...
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• Among Decade’s 25 Key Legal Trends: Lawyer Pay, Terror Law, Social Sites

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  In a sweeping review of the top 25 topics and trends of the decade that have impacted the legal profession, the National Law Journal puts the war on terror and its test of the limits of the law at the top of the list. In second place is the roller-coaster ride for associates, concerning not only pay but the ...
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• Lawyer Who Survived Hostage Ordeal Talks About Aftermath

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Praised for her calm attitude and the resourcefulness that helped her escape in July from a Connecticut home in which, authorities say, she was held hostage by her ex-husband in a 13-hour ordeal, attorney Nancy Tyler says she is still jumpy in the aftermath of the situation. But the Connecticut medical malpractice ...
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• Findlaw Case Summaries: Constitutional Law

  
  Criminal Law Library Blog — Authority: 131
  December-14-18, 2009. To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, December 17, 2009 Mosher v. Nelson, No. 09-1636 In plaintiffs civil ...
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• The Individual Mandate : Unconstitutional, and an Alarming Precedent

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 524
  Health insurance: The individual mandate. Illustration from Slate.Going too far?Health care reform and the individual mandate If Congress gets away with this, there is no stopping point and Big Business will have succeeded in making Americans into involuntary consumers whenever it so chooses.By Sheldon H. Laskin / ...
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• Is Supreme Court’s Lab Testimony Ruling at Risk?

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  On Jan. 11, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider when and how lab analysts must testify to satisfy a June ruling that holds crime lab evidence can’t be used at trial unless the analysts are subject to cross-examination. The issue in Briscoe v. Virginia is whether Virginia’s procedure meets the requirements of the ...
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• Right to Life Group Challenges Public Funding of Judicial Elections in Wis.

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  A new law in Wisconsin that provides public funding for Supreme Court candidates is facing a First Amendment challenge. The Christian Science Monitor calls Wisconsin a "pioneer" in trying to reduce the influence of special interests in judicial elections. The new law, which took effect Dec. 16, aims to level the ...
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• California Court Strikes Down State Law Criminalizing Possession of Body Armor By Ex-Felons

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 647
  A California appellate court has struck down the state law barring ex-felons from possessing body armor. The law was passed in 1998 and the Congress passed a similar federal law in 2002. The California law was passed in response to case like that of Lee Boutwell, who fatally shot San Francisco Officer James ...
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• Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Country Attorney Thomas Charge Judge Who Sent Deputy to Jail

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 647
  We have been following the latest controversy of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in his support of a deputy who committed an outrageous act in rifling through the papers of a criminal defense attorney and then removing and copying notes about her client ( here ). Many questioned the actions of County Attorney ...
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• FLOG THE BLOG: Vote Now or the Orcs Will Inhabit the Blog

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 647
  It has come to this. We are facing a 50 vote deficit with ten days left in the battle for the blogoshere. It is time to pull out the video that most captures the moment (as supplied by Mespo). You are not the first to face an overwhelming army with many assuming certain defeat. Do you want the orcs to win? Do ...
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• Iran to Sue for World War II Reparations

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 647
  Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to the United Nations announcing the intention for Iran to seek compensation for World War II damages. Putting aside his country’s support of terrorism around the world and repressions at home, Ahmadinejad believes the world owes his country for invading Iran ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Rep. Grayson Asks Holder to Prosecute On-Line Critic at “Mycongressmanisnuts.com”

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 647
  Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) has written Attorney General Eric Holder to ask that he investigate and prosecute Republican activist Angie Langley for her website “mycongressmanisnuts.com.” In his letter below, he claims that Langley has misrepresented the purpose of the site in raising funds against him. The ...
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• California Man Triggers Protests After Creating Lawn Display of Jesus Shooting Santa

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 647
  There is a controversy brewing in Nipomo, California over the right of a resident Ron Lake to display a decoration on his lawn depicting Jesus shooting Santa Claus. Neighbors want the display removed, but Lake insists that it is a work of art. Lake insists that it is a political statement against the commercialism ...
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