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• Robert Tsai on ‘Eloquence and Reason’

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a new book on constitutional interpretation and language by my colleague, Washington College of Law professor Robert Tsai — Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture .  Constitutional rhetoric and interpretation are not my areas, but I started reading the book and ...
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• A New Challenge on the First Amendment

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 541
  A state Supreme Court case looks at whether media outlets can protect the identities of anonymous online commenters. We’ll look at this case and what it may mean to the future of online posting.
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• North American Governments Agree to Protect Wilderness

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed this week to work together to protect wilderness areas across North America. The cooperation agreement establishes an intergovernmental committee to exchange research and approaches that address challenges such as climate change, fire control, and invasive species in land, ...
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• Journalist Charged with Pornography for Sending Pictures of Woman in Unassisted Child Birth to Government Officials

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 632
  There is a disturbing trial being held in Zambia where the news editor of The Post , Chansa Kabwela, sent photos of a when giving birth in a hospital car park without assistance to highlight the costs of a nursing strike and poor government policies. She was right. The officials, including Zambia’s President, ...
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• ‘Religious Convictions”: When Children Die, Religion Should Be No Defense

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 632
  Here is today’s column from the Washington Post on the benefits of a new type of “good-faith” defense. While “religious convictions” are usually a reference to personal faith, it turns out that the it has a distinct and disturbing meaning for criminal sentencing. “Suffer little children to come to ...
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• Tories deny ‘deal’ with Murdoch

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 459
  The Conservatives dismiss claims of a “contract” with media mogul Rupert Murdoch as “absolute nonsense”. Read the original post:  Tories deny ‘deal’ with Murdoch
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• Witchcraft Charges Against Samoan Traditional Healer Dismissed

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Samoan  Supreme Court has dismissed charges of practicing witchcraft against a Samoan couple. In dismissing the charges, His Honour Lesatele Rapi Va’ai, said witchcraft may mean a spirit or power that can cure sicknesses. However the defendant said she has never practiced witchcraft but she was only a ...
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• Jewish School Admission In Court

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 424
  Admittance into Jewish Private School is getting a little more difficult in Britain, so much so that the Supreme Court is getting involved. The core issues in Britain are which students are Jewish, based upon which criteria. The criteria are what are mostly in question for different schools.A Times article brought ...
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• World Lovefest for Obama not found in Philippines

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 130
  Obama is the 3rd term of Bush. Bayan and other cause-oriented groups are expected to launch protest rallies near the US embassy in Manila today. The groups were protesting the permanent and continuing presence of US troops in the Philippines under the Visiting Forces Agreement and the reported additional military ...
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• Government Development Turns Into an Empty Lot

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 473
  Kelo. For those who follow eminent domain abuses by the governments and the courts, the name Kelo will always be associated with injustice.  A brief history: The council of New London CT decided it wanted to rebuild a neighbourhood, Fort Trumbull.  It wasn’t a blighted neighbourhood, but the local ...
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• Divorce, Equitable Distribution and Appreciation of Separate Property

  
  Rochester Family Lawyer — Authority: 106
  One issue that comes up periodically in divorce cases has to do with appreciation of separate property brought into the marriage by one spouse.  If that separate property is a business that appreciated during the marriage, did that appreciation come as active spousal effort, which would render the appreciation ...
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• Kerchner V Obama, Appeal, November 14, 2009, Update, Charles Kerchner, Mario Apuzzo, U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Philadelphia PA, Obama not natural born citizen

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 588
  Just in from Charles Kerchner, lead plantiff in Kerchner V Obama, Congress, November 14, 2009. “The Kerchner v Obama & Congress lawsuit has been appealed and is now formally Docketed by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia PA as docket number 09-4209. Copy available via this link.” ...
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• Obama shows proper way to kowtow

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 130
  but he didn’t apologize for Hiroshima yet! Then you have Cheney meeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito. Watching the video is even worse. It is like the old time comedy movies where the person doesnt know when to stop bowing. Obama bowed to Emperor Akihito then bows his wife then bows a couple more times . tags ...
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• Global Warming News: Campaign I could get behind

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 130
  Contestants vying for the Miss Earth 2009 crown pose with placards and plants in their swimsuits in front of press photographers in Manila on November 4, 2009. 87 beauties championing green causes took part in the Miss Earth beauty pageant, with the aim to spread awareness on environmental issues. The winner will be ...
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  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Adolescents and Life Without Parole

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  The United States Supreme Court is presently discussing whether it is or is not appropriate to condemn and adolescent who has committed a crime to life imprisonment without parole. A decision in 2005 has already abolished the death penalty for juveniles. In commenting on these matters, the psychologist Laurence ...
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• Cleveland Update: Legislating From the Bench Edition

  
  Weapons of Mass Discussion — Authority: 431
  Here is a story that hasnt gotten a whole lot of play but it is important on several fronts. The 8th District Court of Appeals is thumbing its nose at the Ohio Supreme Court and a ruling by that body that settled the issue of whether or not local gun control laws had any teeth. The answer to that question was ...
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• Patterico asks an interesting question

  
  Common Sense Political Thought — Authority: 141
  Our friends on the left are (mostly) elated that some of the high-value prisoners being held in Guantanamo will be brought to the United States and given a fair trial in federal court. But a fair trial includes the possibility that the defendant will be acquitted! “If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Is Acquitted, ...
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• SHCBA elections today

  
  AIndiaNews.com — Authority: 460
  KARACHI: The annual elections of Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) will be held today. The senior lawyer leaders said lawyers’ movement still going on will continue until achievement of rights of common man. In a dinner hosted by SHBA for senior lawyers, Hamid Khan Advocate said lawyers of Karachi ...
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