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• Obama slow on judicial nominations

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 142
  Law professor Jonathan Adler over at the Volokh Conspiracy, notes that the Obama administration has been much slower nominating federal judges than the Bush administration was at a comparable point in time. As the NYT has also noted, by this point Bush had nominated 28 appellate judges and 36 district court ...
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• Grand Jury Indicts Daniel Goncalves On Domain Theft Charges

  
  Domain Name News — Authority: 561
  New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in a press release today that Union, New Jersey resident Daniel Goncalves was indicted today.  Criminal Justice Director Deborah Gramiccioni stated that the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes/Computer Analysis & Technology Unit obtained a seven-count ...
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• Grand Jury Indicts Daniel Goncalves On Domain Theft Charges

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 159
  New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in a press release today that Union, New Jersey resident Daniel Goncalves was indicted today.  Criminal Justice Director Deborah Gramiccioni stated that the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes/Computer Analysis & Technology Unit obtained a seven-count state ...
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• CANADA Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer Files Libel Lawsuit For Defamation

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 140
  The Royal Canadian  Mounted Police (RCMP) officer who fired a Taser at Vancouver’s airport leading to the death of a Polish immigrant two years ago has moved ahead with a libel lawsuit against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). According to  a writ of summons filed in British Columbia Supreme ...
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• Domain Names as Property Subject to Creditor Claims – Bosh v. Zavala

  
  Domain Name News — Authority: 561
  The following is a guest post by Venkat Balasubramani – Venkat is a co-founder of Focal PLLC , a law firm focused on internet and technology issues. He blogs at Spam Notes and Professor Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog . Follow him on Twitter: @VBalasubramani . This post was previously ...
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• The Coming 9/11 Show Trials

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 643
  It is quite possible that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may go free after masterminding the 9/11 attacks.  Why?  Because AG Holder’s decision to move KSM and the other al-Qaeda suspects out of the military courts and into the civilian courts may throw a lot of evidence out the window.  This is the ACLU’s wet dream.  ...
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• PA: ‘Whites only’ club sinks to the bottom of the pool - Valley Club files for bankruptcy

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 162
  by Pam Spaulding Welcome back to post-racial America friends, where some people believe that electing a black man as POTUS erases all vestiges of racism from American culture. Sometimes there is justice in the world , and in some ways it takes a sad form in the context of the big picture. If The Valley Club had ...
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• Leaked Documents Reveal Anti-Piracy Cash Operation

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 716
  In 2007, UK lawyers Davenport Lyons (DL) got into the lucrative business of threatening to sue file-sharers. Their clients used anti-piracy tracking companies to harvest the IP addresses of many thousands of users allegedly sharing video games. This information was used to get court orders which forced ISPs to hand ...
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• Westchester County Judge Agrees to Waive Publication of Trans Name Change

  
  Leonard Link — Authority: 422
  Finding that transsexuals are at risk of being victimized by hate crimes, New York Supreme Court Justice William J. Giacomo (Supreme Court, Westchester County) has granted a request by a transsexual man that the usual requirement that a name-change notice be published in a local newspaper be waived in his case, and ...
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• In Southern California Oceanside congregation loses legal battle with Episcopal Church

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Sundays sermon at St. Annes Anglican Church in Oceanside will be about "standing on the authority of Gods word" in light of a recent court ruling that could force the congregation to find a new home. Father Joe Rees, rector of the church at 701 West St. near the former Ditmar Elementary School, said he and his ...
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• A Local Editorial on Attorney General Eric Holder’s Decision: Wrong way to try terrorists

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  No less an authority on terrorism trials than Judge Michael Mukasey has spoken out strongly against trying the 9/11 plotters in federal court. Judge Mukasey, who was Mr. Holders predecessor as attorney general, presided over the 1995 trial of Sheik Omar. He has written that terrorism trials become targets for ...
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• Universal Studios Promotes Movie with Fake News Articles

  
  The Art of the Prank — Authority: 502
  Studio settlement reported for fake movie news 1010WINS November 12, 2009 Fairbanks, Alaska (AP) — Universal Pictures has agreed to pay $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club to settle complaints about fake news archives used to promote the movie “The Fourth Kind,” the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. The ...
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• Why not try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed here?

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 142
  I saw a few people interviewed on Fox News early this morning, and a bunch of people on my Facebook page terribly upset that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged “mastermind” of the 9/11 attack (along with four codefendants) is to be brought to New York and tried in a civilian court. For the life of me I can’t ...
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• An Overview of Avista Capital Partners

  
  Raster Gang — Authority: 131
  The New York-based private equity business, Avista Capital PartnersM/a>, was created a year after Larry Schloss’ resignation from DLJ Merchant Banking Partners . His departure was brought about by his decision to form Diamond Castle Holdings, another middle market-targeted private equity business. The firm ...
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• Teacher Fired Over Facebook Profile

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 496
  A former Georgia high school teacher is suing the school district that fired her after finding what they deemed to be inappropriate pictures and language on her Facebook profile. From CBS Atlanta : “A former high school teacher is suing a north Georgia school district, alleging she was forced to resign over ...
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• Who are these “Christian Converts”?

  
  B Shantanu's Blog — Authority: 126
  Thanks to Sh KSV Subramanian for alerting me to this. In a comment yesterday, he asked: Kerala government has announced writing off loans upto Rs.25,000 to converted Christians . Is this not discrimination on the basis of religion?” I decided to dig further. Here is what I unearthed…courtesy the Budget ...
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• AFACT v iiNet: Safe Harbor Protection Intact, Says iiNet

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 716
  The trial continues in the copyright infringement case of AFACT – representing several Hollywood studios – and Aussie ISP iiNet (multiple links to all our earlier coverage can be found here and here and here ) The case continued in the Federal Court, with iiNet barrister Richard Cobden beginning his closing ...
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• Religion of Peace update: Feds seize mosques, skyscraper

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 484
  Federal prosecutors have taken steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a ...
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• A Work Comp Investigators Death Claim Depends On The Tools of His Trade

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 140
  How Would You Decide:  Death of Workers’ Compensation “Private Eye” Did Not Arise Out of Nor Was it in the Course of the Employment Here’s What Happened… Anderson worked  for Veracity Research, investigating workers’ compensation claimants who were suspected of fraud.  He was killed in a ...
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• Britain the abortion capital of Europe: Terminations for teenagers leap by a third

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  More abortions are carried out in Britain than any other country in Europe, research has shown. It has overtaken France - which has a larger population - to become the abortion capital of the continent. The rising rate has been pushed up by abortions among teenage girls, which increased by nearly a third over the ...
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