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• Democrat demands hearing on KSM trial

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 709
  Brace yourself, an ounce of common sense has been found in a Democrat! Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) penned a letter to Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggesting military trials would be a more appropriate venue for the accused terrorists. “As a former prosecutor, I am not yet convinced that the right ...
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• I Now Unpronounce You…..

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  From the Star Telegram : Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the ...
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• Thousands demonstrate against Nicaragua’s president Ortega

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Managua (Nicaragua), Nov 22 (DPA) Thousands of protestors in the Central Americancountry of Nicaragua took to the streets of Managua against President Daniel Ortega, who opposition parties and citizens’ groups accuse of attempting to set up a dictatorship.There were fears about the protestors resorting to clashes ...
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• Memorializing Dread Scott

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 501
  The state of Maryland commissioned a plaque commemorating the infamous Dread Scott decision. Nearly 150 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a seemingly knockout blow against those that wanted freedom for all peoples within the our nation, crushing the hopes of Dred Scott and all enslaved Black people that ...
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• This is Why Elections Matter

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 589
  Because presidents get to appoint federal judges to lifetime positions : As consolation prizes go, Louis Butler cant complain. After being twice rejected by Wisconsin voters for a place on the state Supreme Court, the former judge has instead been nominated by President Obama to a lifetime seat on the federal ...
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• The Return of Abortion as a National Issue

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  King Solomon said in the Book of Ecclesiastes there’s nothing new under the sun. Women have killed or attempted to kill their unborn babies throughout human history, way before 1973, when the Supreme Court found a long-hidden, deeply buried “right of privacy” in the U.S. Constitution to have abortions. Roe v. Wade ...
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• Is "The White House Butler" an outrageously racist headline?

  
  Althouse — Authority: 756
  Theres been some discussion here in Madison, Wisconsin, where former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler is a visiting professor at the law school, about whether that headline, on a Wall Street Journal editorial , is racist. The editors begin: As consolation prizes go, Louis Butler cant complain. After ...
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• Nicolas Cage dances with Somali pirates

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Cage, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime, seems more concerned about the pirates than the crime victims. Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean. Inmates danced for the movie star and shook ...
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• Is Obama dissing jews with WH Hanukkah party?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  He doesnt want to offend his Muslim “friends”. As the White House prepares for its annual Hanukkah party and candle-lighting, many previous attendees are going to find themselves left in the dark as the number of invitations is set to shrink to half of last years. Though several Jewish leaders expressed ...
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• 10 Interesting Links From November 20th

  
  Greg In The Desert — Authority: 121
  9NEWS.com | Colorado’s Online News Leader | Huge ball of ice crashes through woman’s roof – Then she heard a huge explosion after something fell out of the sky right into her kitchen. Thankfully Hagan was not sitting in the room. The two of them had just left the kitchen and no one in the home was injured. "It ...
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• Even More on Costs and “Sufficient Reason” to Sue in the BC Supreme Court

  
  ICBC Personal Injury Claims Lawyer Erik Magraken | Victoria & Vancouver Island BC — Authority: 127
  Further to my previous posts on this topic , reasons for judgement were released today considering whether to award a Plaintiff Supreme Court Costs in an ICBC Claim where the judgement amount was within the Small Claims Court’s jurisdiction. In today’s case ( Mohamadi v. Tremblay ) the Plaintiff was awarded ...
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• Court Orders Dissolution of Standard Oil Co.

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  In the equivalent of an appeals court decision, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has been ruled "an illegal combination operating in restraint of trade." Frank B. Kellogg, United States special prosecutor, said the government won the case on every point argued.
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• IT department conducted Searches and Seizure in various states

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 449
  The Minister of State for Finance, Shri S. S. Palanimanickam, gave the below information in written reply to a question raised in Lok Sabha.The Income Tax Department, assisted by the Enforcement Directorate, has conducted searches and seizure... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
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• NY Gitmo trails may not start for a year

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  but where are the terrorists going to be kept before and during the trail. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said he thought there was little chance that Mr. Mohammed would be acquitted. But he argued that Mr. Holder’s decision was a mistake for a different reason: in the future, he said, ...
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• S2781: The “Don’t call them retarded” Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  More political correctness because someone was offended by the term of mentally retarded. S. 2781 To change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual ...
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• HR4111: The ‘Don’t 7-11 captured Islamic Terrorists” Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Don’t mirandize enemy combatants caught on foreign soil. Don’t treat them like they robbed the local 7-11. H. R. 4111 To prohibit the prosecution of unprivileged enemy combatants by the Department of Justice. Source: Thomas LOC Don’t allow enemy combatants caught on foreign soil tried on US Soil in the ...
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• Pledge of Allegiance to Dissent: An Intolerant ‘Excess of Liberty’?

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 806
  “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”     An Arkansas fifth-grader made news recently by claiming there is no “liberty and justice for all” in America as his reason ...
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• The Jones Day Lawyers Looking to Take Down SOX

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 730
  The LB looks at a Business Week story profiling two Jones Day lawyers challenging the constitutionality of Sarbanes-Oxley.
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• Washington Redskins to Keep Name

  
  SportsJudge Blog — Authority: 431
  Earlier this week the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Suzan Harjo v. Pro-Football, Inc. , the case that could have forced the Redskins to change their name.  Back in September, Harjo petitioned the court to hear the case as the latest move in a 17 year battle by a group of Native Americans to force the football ...
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• Merit selection gets support

  
  The Daily Briefing — Authority: 610
  Supporters of changing how justices are elected to the Ohio Supreme Court were buoyed today by the results of a survey showing support for reforms. Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer , Ohio State Bar Association President Barbara J. Howard and League of Women Voters President Meg G. Flack said today that they ...
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