Legal Issues

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• Was the Digital Economy Bill Consultation a Whitewash?

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 731
  Last week, details finally emerged concerning the Digital Economy Bill. In a nutshell, the bill aims to turn elements of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report into law. Internet users will face being monitored by the music and movie industries, and their ISPs forced to pass on infringement notices based on rights ...
  4 hours ago

• Kate Gosselin refuses Jon’s roses at their divorce arbitration

  
  Cele|bitchy — Authority: 715
  The end of our national nightmare might be coming to a close very soon. In addition of TLC’s airing of the final Jon & Kate Plus Eight episode tonight , it looks like Jon and Kate’s divorce might be finalized a lot faster than everyone was expecting. Jon and Kate (and their lawyers) met on Saturday for a ...
  6 hours ago

• What do you understand by Tax Lien?

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 138
  A lien is method by which a lender is able to secure, restrict the use of, or encumber property if debts owed are not paid in a timely fashion. A tax lien tends to refer to the government’s right that gives rights to a lender to encumber property when taxes owed are not paid. There is a slightly difference ...
  22 hours ago

• Britney Spears’ ex tossed in jail

  
  Britney Groupie — Authority: 126
  Remember when sleazy paparazzo Adnan Ghalib hooked up with Britney Spears , taking advantage of the fact that she was right in the middle of a massive psychological meltdown? Instead of spending time in Brit’s hotel room, now Adnan gets to spend 45 days in jail after pleading guilty to fleeing the ...
  22 hours ago

• AG Eric Holder’s path to setting the nation on its ear aided by AZ’s two senators

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 484
  “ Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards .”   Attorney General Eric Holder Attorney General Eric Holder, acting on behalf of President Obama, has ordered ...
  2 days ago

• Use of Workload Analysis for Caseload Establishment in the Recruitment and Retention of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  Personnel shortages have been a persistent challenge in the field of special education. In particular, shortages in the ranks of speech-language pathologists have been acute for many years. The inability to recruit and retain speech-language pathologists may result in underserving a vulnerable and growing student ...
  2 days ago

• Minneapolis Activist Indicted for Conspiracy to Violate Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

  
  GreenIsTheNewRed.com Green Is The New Red Eco-terrorism and civil liberties — Authority: 505
  Scott DeMuth, a Minneapolis activist, has been indicted for conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act , apparently in relation to a 2004 Animal Liberation Front raid at the University of Iowa. He faces up to 5 years in prison. His indictment marks a continued expansion of the scope of the new ...
  2 days ago

• Roman Polanski “will not accept extradition to the United States”

  
  Cele|bitchy — Authority: 715
  Roman Polanski’s lawyer just gave an interview detailing the status of Polanski’s extradition and imprisonment in Switzerland. The lawyer, Herve Temime, also claims that Polanski’s wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, two children Morgane and Elvis are “very upset psychologically by this separation that is a true ...
  2 days ago

• Police raid Surf City rental service

  
  Lansner on Real Estate — Authority: 614
  Huntington Beach police are conducting a felony investigation of Golden State Rentals, a troubled rental listing service that’s accused to giving out bogus listings and failing to refund customers’ money. Investigators served a search warrant on Golden State Rentals in early October after an undercover officer ...
  2 days ago

• Senator Graham Questions (e.g., Destroys) Attorney General Eric Holder -- Plus! Patrick Leahy Saying We Dont Need To Iterrogate Bin Laden... The Dems Do Not Understand the War on Terror

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 450
  We Wouldnt interrogate him merely for convicting him but to get connections and information on the terror network.  This needs to be done without Miranda warnings or Federal Court oversight or legal opportunities to have evidence thrown out.  Eric Holder (above) and Obama have a fundemental misunderstanding (as does ...
  3 days ago

• Update On The “Fighting Facebook” Teachers

  
  Straight from the "A" [SFTA] ~ Adventures of an ATLien! — Authority: 570
  I just read an update regarding the two Rex Middle school teachers who were jailed in Clayton county after fighting over a love triangle involving facebook . In case you missed it, Chaka Cobb and Ebony Smith were arrested for arguing and fighting in front of students after discovering they each were involved with the ...
  3 days ago

• UK Anti-Piracy Plans Slammed By Liberal Democrats

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 731
  Today Lord Mandelson will present the Digital Economy Bill which will include measures aimed at reducing illicit file-sharing. Yesterday parts of the bill leaked out , revealing that the legislation could lead to jail terms for file-sharers and unprecedented powers handed to private entertainment companies. If this ...
  3 days ago

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  Hosting Discussion — Authority: 152
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  3 days ago

• In Fort Worth Parishes file Plea in Intervention

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Forty seven parishes and missions of the diocese have filed a Plea in Intervention in the lawsuit against the diocese that is currently before the 141st District Court. Collectively, the 47 churches are termed the “Intervening Congregations.” The plea asks the court to acknowledge through a declaratory judgment ...
  3 days ago

• Black Bear Blog on Lynx Lawsuit

  
  Trapping Today — Authority: 413
  Here at TrappingToday we broke a story about the Federal Court’s decision supporting trapping in Maine (the Maine Lynx Lawsuit) several days back.  More recently, Tom Remington at the Black Bear Blog has put together an interesting analysis on the judge’s ruling, and has uncovered a few notable observations that ...
  3 days ago

• Elementary School Placements of African American Students Who Are Profoundly Deaf

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  Data from the third wave (2003—2004) of the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study are used to generate nationally representative estimates of current school and classroom placements of elementary school—aged students who are African American and profoundly deaf. These students are found to have less ...
  3 days ago

• Using Twitter, Facebook or MySpace at Your Station? DWT Seminar to Provide Employers Guide to Legal Issues of the Social Media

  
  Broadcast Law Blog — Authority: 462
  At more and more broadcast conventions, station owners have been asking questions about their legal liability for the use of social media .  What is their liability for the use of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or other services?  Could owners have liability if their station maintains its own page on ...
  3 days ago

• Can Wife of Defense Contractor Collect Workers Comp Under Defense Base Act for Husband’s Suicide in Iraq Resulting from PTSD

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 140
  How Would You Decide:  Surviving Spouse of Defense Contractor’s Employee in Iraq Fails to Establish Husband’s Suicide Was Caused By Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Here’s what Tom Robinson, J.D., writer for Lexis Nexis Workers Comp Law Center reports. Here’s What Happened: Decedent, who worked ...
  3 days ago

• Avoid Pitfalls of fileing OSHA Reporting Form 300 and Workers Comp C-2 in NY

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 140
  NEW YORK:   Avoidable Pitfalls In New York ,  an  OSHA Form 300 must be completed whenever an Employer’s Report of Injury (C-2) is filed with the Work Comp Board. This is due to the fact that the threshold reporting requirements are identical for each form. A recent GAO  report claims that employers ...
  3 days ago

• On the Green or In the Park?

  
  Diner's Journal — Authority: 663
  The future licensee for the Tavern on the Green space said he might rename it Tavern in the Park to avoid a trademark battle.
  3 days ago

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