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• Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page ...
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• Planned Parenthood drops lawsuit against former director (from pro-abortion to pro-life)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  BRYAN, Texas — Planned Parenthood has quietly dropped its lawsuit against the former director of its Bryan health center who quit her job after observing an abortion procedure. Among other accusations, Planned Parenthood falsely claimed she violated a confidentiality agreement and breached an employment contract, ...
  10 hours ago

• Justice Dept. Says Acorn Can Be Paid

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress enacted a law banning the government from providing funds to the group. The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed ...
  19 hours ago

• Anil Ambani makes a surprise appearance at Supreme Court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 24(ANI): Industrialist Anil Ambani, who heads the Reliance Natural Resources Limited (RNRL), made a surprise appearance at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The court was hearing of the gas price dispute row between RNRL and Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on tapping the gas in the Krishna-Godavari Basin ...
  4 days ago

• Pennsylvania Court Orders Sperm Donor To Lesbian Couple To Pay Child Support?

  
  Surrogacy & Egg Donation Issues — Authority: 117
  Here is a story that declares beware all over it.  Attention those using sperm donors – do it right or this could happen to you.“A sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple conceive two children is liable for child support under a state appellate court ruling that a legal expert believes might be the first [...]
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• World weightlifting body to take strict action against India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has said it will take strong disciplinary action against the dope tainted Indian federation for the repeated offences of its lifters.IWF legal counsel Monika Ungar said the executive board is waiting for all the pending cases of the six Indian ...
  1 week ago

• Won’t You Help Jay Bybee Against Those Who Want to Hold Him Accountable for Torture?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 750
  Michael Isikoff reports : The federal judge who helped draft Justice Department memos on torture has set up a legal defense fund to pay the costs of defending against possible disciplinary or impeachment proceedings. Jay Bybee, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge in Las Vegas, quietly set up the fund last July following ...
  1 week ago

• Did Greg Craig Bungle Dawn Johnsen’s OLC Nomination?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  Greg Craig announced his departure as White House counsel on Friday, and you can Google for yourself all the Internet-dispersed acrimony and recriminations that his vexed tenure has inspired. This, however, via Marcy Wheeler , is news to me. Marc Ambinder : The White House was also dissatisfied with Craig’s ...
  1 week ago

• IOA to conduct fresh elections for IWF

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Tuesday said fresh elections will be held for the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after its executive board stepped down taking “moral responsibility” for the series of doping violations.The International Weightlifting Federation’s executive ...
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• International Justice Group Takes Aim at Bush Officials

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  The International Center for Transitional Justice usually focuses on bringing to light and holding perpetrators accountable for such heinous crimes as genocide, mass murder and systematic torture, often in far-off war-torn countries with dismal human rights records. So it’s significant that today they’ve ...
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• Fannie and Freddie: Let’s Try The Honor System

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  Well at least the government -subsidized mortgage industry is efficacious and legally astute in one respect.  The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim has this investigative report on Fannie Me and Freddie Mac getting rid of its own inspector general : There is no independent auditor overseeing the federal agency ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can We Stop Giving Carrie Prejean Airtime?

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 150
  Even conservatives that want to get behind Carrie Prejean for her one time stand at the Miss USA Pageant have had enough of Carrie Prejean’s antics and attempts to create celebrity for herself. Here is some quick background. She’s making the rounds on TV talk shows in response to her news worthy event surrounding ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYT Slams Federal Appeals Court for Rendition Decision

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  Praising an Italian court’s recent ruling that CIA agents broke the law in an extraordinary rendition case, The New York Times today highlights a growing phenomenon that hasn’t received sufficient attention: European courts appear more willing than their American counterparts to enforce the laws protecting basic ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Yoo asks that torture lawsuit be dismissed

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 477
  University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School Professor John Yoo – widely recognized as an architect of Bush Administration policies on torture and detainee rights – has filed a brief asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to toss a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner.American citizen Jose Padilla ...
  2 weeks ago

• Declassified Docs Reveal Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  The Justice Department released more documents — or, at least, less-redacted documents — late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the government’s obligation in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. These latest documents provide a glimpse of the early struggles between the FBI and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Learn How to Resolve Unsecured Credit Card Debt Issues

  
  IENACE — Authority: 142
  You’ll understand that its reasonably easy to take care of your credit card debt if you actually focus and discipline yourself to stick to a solid plan and budget. US taxpayers are getting torn up the claws of a bear market and the deepest swallows of a recession. People are falling past due on their payments and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grand Prairie Law Firm, MMA Gear, Reverse Craigslist Software

  
  The Management Guidance Group — Authority: 133
  We serves  individuals and businesses based out of our offices in Waxahachie, Texas, Grand Prairie Law Firm The Hale Law Firm work with clients throughout Dallas and Ellis County, including but not limited to: Ovilla, Waxahachie, Midlothian, Red Oak, Glenn Heights, Ferris, Ennis, DeSoto, Cedar Hill, Lancaster, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Former OLC Director Not Opposed to Criminal Investigation of OLC Lawyers

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  Former Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin, who headed the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush after the departure of Jack Goldsmith, said this morning that “I personally am not opposed to criminal investigation of my conduct and others during the period in ...
  3 weeks ago

• PurchasingProperty in Spain: the Legal System Explained

  
  Horse Hubs — Authority: 128
  Once youve chosen your ideal property and found a Spanish mortgage how do you go about completing the purchase? Buying property in Spain is highly regulated. The best thing you can do to protect yourself and your money is to hire an English-speaking lawyer or legal counsel to help you during the purchase and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama DOJ shovels out more grist for foreign prosecutions of Bush officials

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Saturday, October 31, 2009 Obama DOJ shovels out more grist for foreign prosecutions of Bush officials   [Andy McCarthy] Well, the hyper-"transparent" Obama administration wont share any of its internal deliberations on matters about which there is no good reason to keep the public in the dark — e.g., its ...
  4 weeks ago

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