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• Sotomayor Opts for Red Nails and ‘a Friend with No Strings Attached’

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor had doubts about taking a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Three weeks before the nomination was announced, Sotomayor confessed to a friend that she was considering withdrawing her name from consideration, Latina magazine reports. The Associated Press has the highlights. Sotomayor was worried ...
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• DA: Judge’s ‘Deep-Seated Bias’ Requires Recusal in 74 Domestic Violence Cases

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Repeated "frivolous" comments by a Texas judge during domestic violence hearings "trivialize" the seriousness of the cases and demonstrate a "deep-seated bias" that requires the recusal of criminal Court-at-Law Judge Reagan Helm in 74 pending cases, the Harris County District Attorneys Office argues in filings ...
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• Justice O’Connor’s Husband Dies at 79

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  The husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died. John O’Connor, a lawyer who worked at Miller & Chevalier and Bryan Cave, was 79, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. He died of complications from Alzheimers disease. The O’Connors met at Stanford Law School. Justice ...
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• No to Gay Marriage in Maine, Yes to Domestic Partners in Washington State

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 780
  Last week, the results of two votes on gay marriage painted a clear picture of the current mood on the topic.
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• Can we have our revered Judges back?

  
  Rumble of Thoughts — Authority: 98
  If there was a news over the last week (heard on TV too) that warmed my heart it was this:Justice Dinakaran’s name withdrawn from list for SC appointmentBy ANINovember 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chief... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Remember Back When the Right Hated The Filibuster?

  
  Right Wing Watch — Authority: 686
  Once upon a time, activists on the Right were vehemently opposed to the use of the filibuster against judicial nominees, declaring on principle that its use was flagrantly unconstitutional and calling on Senate Republicans to do away with the Democratic minoritys ability to use them against President Bushs nominees. ...
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• Law Firm & Ex-Associate Litigate Badmouth Blog Battle in State & Federal Court

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation. The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes ...
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• Anti-Money Laundering Efforts Improving

  
  American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free — Authority: 439
  Since September 11, 2001, the United States has established tools to address the threat to the US financial system of money laundering and terrorist financing. One such tool is Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit US financial institutions from ...
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• Statement by Ms. Jayanthi L.G Naidu, former secretary of Datuk VK Lingam

  
  The New Politickler — Authority: 124
  Statement by Ms. Jayanthi L.G Naidu, former secretary of Datuk VK Lingam10 November 2009I had heard in the media the announcement by Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz that the MACC had cleared Datuk VK Lingam and Tun Eusoff Chin of any wrong doing or corruption, I also read that the MACC had closed the [...]
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• Chief Justice Featured on Baseball Card

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  The publication that created Supreme Court bobbleheads for its subscribers is coming out with a new item: Supreme Court Sluggers baseball cards. The first baseball card (PDF) issued by the Green Bag law publication features Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the pose of Chicago Cubs pitcher Mordecai "Three Fingers" ...
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• The Most Unwanted U-Turn

  
  Fight for justice — Authority: 119
  This is a true story based on a funny incident involving three friends. Vishal, Das and Suraj are three friends and also members of an NGO fighting for men’s rights. Suraj has filed cases against a State Government for alleged injustices against him. He wanted to ensure whether warrant has been served on the ...
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• Re-Open Investigations on Tun Dr. Mahathir,VK Lingam and the rest

  
  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger — Authority: 479
  November 10, 2009 I attended a press conference this morning by the MP for Subang R. Sivarasa and his Pakatan Rakyat colleagues where Ms. Jayanthi Naidu read out her statement (below). It is clear to me that the Najib government does not have the political will to implement the recommendations of the Haider ...
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• Federal Judge Calls Courtroom Tweets Banned Broadcasts Under Rule 53

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A federal judge in Georgia has banned reporters from sending live-action tweets from his courtroom, saying that Twitter is a form of broadcasting and hence prohibited under Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. But the ruling by U.S. District Judge Clay Land only extends as far as the courtroom door, ...
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• The Torrent At Tarrant

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 134
  NRA: Texas: Judge allows students to hold Right-to-Carry protest at Tarrant County College A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Friday allowing two Tarrant County College students to stage their “empty holster” protest at the community college campuses. U.S. District Judge [*****] said in his ...
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• “Finally” a Lebanese Cabinet

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Reuters is reporting that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has announced the formation of a unity government.  Lebanon has been without a government since the June elections.  According to the Xinhua news agency, Hezbollah will hold the Agriculture Ministry and State Ministry for Administrative Reform, ...
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• New Trials in Iran

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  The U.S. has tried to  resuscitate the nuclear deal  with Iran by sending back-channel messages that it is willing to store Iran’s nuclear stockpile in a neutral, trustworthy country like Turkey. But Iran has not responded to these proposals, instead offering that the uranium should be stored in the ...
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• MACC ‘clearance’?

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 119
  It would seem unfair that the primates above had to be dragged from the comfort of their natural habitat only to get themselves entangled with what looks like a babe in the woods. But then, today’s event in Malaysia’s Parliament seems to warrant the very physical appearance of these expressive monkeys.
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• PAC proposal to investigate CKC for cbt – testimony of MACC impotence/failure

  
  Lim Kit Siang — Authority: 432
  Why must Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) wait for Public Accounts Committee (PAC) recommendation for further investigation into former Transport Minister Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy for possible offence of criminal breach of trust in the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal when the first report ...
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• VK Lingam is safe

  
  MageP's Lab — Authority: 122
  Finally, VK Lingam is certified to be “morally wrong, but legally correct“, if Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz has his way. “His actions can undermine and erode the integrity of the judiciary, but things must be viewed from a legal perspective…moral and legal must be ...
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• The curious case of Alan Duffus

  
  Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest — Authority: 513
  True to its long tradition of misinforming the public, BBC News informs us that Mr Duffus was convicted of the lesser charge of driving dangerously What the BBC account doesn’t reveal is that this is the third time that Duffus has been involved in killing another road user . The jury was not told of his ...
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