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• 9th Circuit Upholds Ban on Class Actions by Legal Aid Lawyers

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 532
  A federal appeals court has upheld restrictions on legal aid lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp., including a ban on filing class actions. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the rules, enacted along with LSC budgets each year since 1996, in an opinion on Monday, the San Francisco ...
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• Stupak Amendment Energizes Both Sides Of Abortion Debate [Roe Vs. World]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  After the election, some predicted that abortion would cease to be a contentious issue in America. The reaction to the Stupak Amendment — on both sides of the issue — shows how wrong those people were. The New York Times s David Kirkpatrick writes that despite the relatively small role abortion played in ...
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• A Special Kind of Eminent Domain Abuse

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  In federal eminent domain cases, the “scope of the project” rule requires that in determining “just compensation” under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, any increase or decrease in property value caused by the federal project be disregarded.  As it turns out, the federal government had discussed the ...
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• ACLU files suit defending anti-Islam shirts (even a broken clock…)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Monday on behalf of the Dove World Outreach Center claiming the Alachua County school district’s policy against anti-Islamic T-shirts intrudes upon the wearers’ freedom of speech. The shirts, which read “Islam is of the devil,” raised controversy when ...
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• Bill for women’s quota in urban bodies in Lok Sabha

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) A bill seeking 50 percent reservation for women in urban local bodies was introduced Tuesday in Parliament.Introducing the constitutional (112th Amendment) bill in the Lok Sabha, Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy said: “Enhancement of reservation for women in urban local bodies will ...
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• NAACP v. Civil Rights

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 117
  All of the current amicus curiae briefs in McDonald v. Chicago are now posted on Alan Guras site.The NAACP has submitted theirs, and its one that really bothers me.They argue against revisiting the Privileges or Immunities clause at all, claiming,The Court should turn to the largely unexplored Privileges or Immunities ...
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• McDonald v. Chicago: Brady Weighs In

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 117
  So, they got theirs up just under the wire.  The Brady Campaign brief is pretty much exactly what I expected.The whole thing is about "reasonable regulation" and "public interest." Without weighing in on incorporation, they simply beg for a standard of review thats as close to rational basis as they can get without ...
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• Op-ed at New York Times: GPS and Privacy Rights

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 139
  The New York Times has an editorial concerning GPS (a location-tracking technology) and how it affects individual privacy rights.The Supreme Court has not considered the question of whether the police need a court order to install a GPS device. The government has tried to draw an analogy to a 1983 case in which the ...
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• Look whos defending Muslim Mafia

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 624
  By Art Moore Pentagon Papers attorney takes case brought by CAIR Widely regarded as a "legendary" First Amendment advocate who has represented the likes of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and Andrei Sakharov, New York lawyer Martin Garbus has agreed to defend the co-author of "Muslim Mafia" and his son ...
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• A “Public Option” for Media? The Free Press Plan to Put Journalists on the Public Dole

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 548
  Free Press, the radical pro-regulatory media activist group, recently filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the agency’s upcoming workshop on “ How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age ?”  The Free Press comments provide an enlightening glimpse into the mind of how many on the ...
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• State Legislators File Amicus Brief Supporting NRAs Stance in Pivotal Supreme Court Case

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  ·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683 State Legislators File Amicus Brief Supporting NRAs Stance in Pivotal Supreme Court Case Monday, November 23, 2009 Fairfax, Va. -- A large bipartisan group of state legislators and other elected officials from all 50 states have signed an ...
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• BART cop caught on video shoving man into glass that shatters on impact

  
  Photography is Not a Crime — Authority: 532
  By Carlos Miller Less than a year after a Bay Area Rapid Transit cop shot and killed an unarmed man on video, another BART officer was caught on video smashing a suspect’s head into a glass window, causing it to shatter. The video immediately went viral. The video shows a man who is apparently drunk and ...
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• Gun Owners of America Letter

  
  USA Carry — Authority: 155
  Slimy Politics Help Advance ObamaCare In The Senate -- But we still have a chance to kill this bill Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 Gun Owners of America "Gun Owners of America sent out an action alert to its 300,000 ...
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• Bipartisan Majority of Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Supporting NRAs Stance in Pivotal…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  ·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683 Bipartisan Majority of Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Supporting NRAs Stance in Pivotal Supreme Court Case Monday, November 23, 2009 Fairfax, Va. -- An overwhelming, bipartisan majority of attorneys general have signed an amicus curiae, ...
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• Julian Heicklen’s 2009-11-23 FIJA outreach and arrest

  
  blog of bile — Authority: 121
  I arrived at he U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan at 11:45 am on Monday, November 23, 2009. The weather was cold and windy. I stood in the middle of the plaza in front of the courthouse. I passed out 10 of the FIJA pamphlet entitled “True or False: Factual ...
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• What is the BEST way deal with the current congress?

  
  USA Carry — Authority: 155
  What is the best way to deal with the current congress? Leave them be? Write them letters and e-mails? Call Them on the phone? Vote them out of office? Drag them out of office kicking and screaming? File Treason paperwork against them in their home states and have them arrested on sight and tried? Tar and ...
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• Libertarianism -- Going Old School

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 140
  I rarely run across a thinker with whom I can agree on every point of their thought, but, so far, everything Ive read from Frank Chodorovs work rings true. Since politics covers so many areas of life, its almost impossible to have a deep understanding of all the issues involved, but armed with a few overarcing ...
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• VIDEO: Abortion rights Round 2: Chris Matthews calls out Bishop Tobin

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 686
  By GottaLaff If these organizations arent up for a good fight, then fuggetaboutit: To their credit, NARAL and Planned Parenthood are have already shown their willingness to do whats necessary to win this next round . They have threatened to withhold funding from Ciro Rodriguez and Harry Teague, the two ...
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• Artist Arrested for 42nd Time, This Time on the High Line

  
  City Room — Authority: 791
  A vendor who successfully established New York City artists rights to sell was arrested on Saturday for selling on the High Line on Saturday.
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• McDonald v. Chicago: Dave Kopel's Brief

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 117
  Dave Kopel has posted a brief in conjunction with the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA). The argument is summed up in the first sentence: Guns save lives.This one isnt about the 14th Amendment at all.  Rather, its an ancillary brief written to underscore the point that firearms ...
  18 hours ago

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