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| Preserving Court Funding Will Require Effective Political Efforts by the Judiciary and Its Allies | Whether they like it or not, leaders of the judiciary must be willing to play politics in efforts to preserve funding for their state and local court systems. That was the collective message voiced by several court administrators, members of the judiciary and legislators who engaged in blunt discussions on court funding today with members of the ABA Task Force on Preservation of the Justice System. The task force convened during the ABA's 2012 Midyear Meeting in New Orleans. "The courts are nonpartisan, and support for the courts is nonpartisan," said Gail Stone, the law and justice policy advisor for… |
| Scalia Denies Abortion Views Influenced by Religion, Calls His GPS Opinion ‘Defendant Friendly’ | Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t shy from controversy, even before a large crowd of ABA members. On Saturday during the ABA Midyear Meeting in New Orleans, Scalia answered questions posed by Boston University law dean emeritus Ronald Cass and then from the audience. Topics included abortion, religion, lawyer pay and the justice's recent opinion on police use of a GPS device to track a criminal suspect. The only topic that was off limits—and it was Cass who said Scalia couldn’t answer—was on the Constitution and same-sex marriage. Scalia didn’t hesitate when an audience member asked him whether his Catholicism influenced his… |
Google legal news
| | Super Bowl Madness: 7 Big Legal Questions (and Answers) - Hollywood Reporter | |
| Orca legal bid 'a strategic error' - The Press Association | |
Orca legal bid 'a strategic error'The Press AssociationA legal bid to free five orcas from captivity on the grounds they are enslaved in violation of the US constitution is a "strategic error", conservationists warned. The case brought by campaigners People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ...and more » |
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Jurist
| | Pentagon official denies extension for 9/11 suspects | [JURIST] Bruce MacDonald, the senior Pentagon official overseeing war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo [JURIST backgrounder], on Friday denied a request to extend the filing deadline for pre-trial motions [JURIST report] for prisoners accused of planning the 9/11 attacks [JURIST backgrounder]. The prisoners' lawyers stated that they needed the extension because of delays in getting security clearance [AP report] and new restrictions on legal mail between the attorneys and their clients. The prisoners' arraignment is set to occur within months. In... |
| EU asks Google to delay new privacy policy | [JURIST] The European Union's data protection authorities wrote a letter [text, PDF] to Google Thursday asking it to delay implementation of its new privacy policy, which is supposed to take effect March 1. The EU is concerned the privacy policy, which will combine various policies of more than 60 of its products into one, may be in violation of EU laws. Google released details of its new privacy policy [corporate website] last week, saying it will make it easier to... |
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| | Madison Matters: Groups hope to stop Wis. ID law - CanadianBusiness.com | |
Madison Matters: Groups hope to stop Wis. ID lawCanadianBusiness.com(AP) — When Florence Hessing tried to get a state-issued photo identification card to comply with Wisconsin's new voter ID law, the 95-year-old was told she needed her birth certificate. But she didn't have one. She wrote to county officials in Iowa ...and more » |
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| MURPHY'S LAW: Why Russia Loves Arab Tyrants - Strategy Page | |
MURPHY'S LAW: Why Russia Loves Arab TyrantsStrategy PageFebruary 5, 2012: Russia is using its veto in the UN Security Council to prevent the organization of a UN military aid operation for the Syrian opposition. This prevents the kind of aid the Libyan rebels got. The Russians lost a lot of money when the ...and more » |
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Tax Law
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