Recent Updates
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Oregon House passes same-sex civil unions bill
Legal News Center 04/18/2007[##_1L|1313057676.jpg|width="120" height="91" alt=""|_##]A gay rights bill that would allow same-sex couples in Oregon to enter into contractual relationships affording them the benefits available to married couples passed in the Oregon House of Repr...
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U.S. Senate committee modifies earmark rules
Legal News Center 04/18/2007US Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) announced Tuesday that the Senate Appropriations Committee he chairs has agreed to adopt new standards governing so-called earmarks inserted by legislators into bills to fund special spending projects. The proposed ethics a...
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Attorney General Gonzales defends prosecutor firings
Legal News Center 04/15/2007[##_1L|1281991091.jpg|width="140" height="112" alt=""|_##]Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, fighting to save his job, said in prepared Senate testimony Sunday he has "nothing to hide" in the firings of eight federal prosecutors but claimed a hazy me...
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Bush to allow cell research on unviable embryos
Legal News Center 04/11/2007President George W. Bush will sign off on a bill providing funding for studies on embryos incapable of further development, but will refuse to endorse legislation that would subsidize stem cell research the White House announced Tuesday. The administ...
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DC Appeals Ruling Overturning Handgun Ban
Legal News Center 04/10/2007[##_1L|1268020550.jpg|width="150" height="100" alt=""|_##]The city government of Washington, DC on Monday asked the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals for an en banc rehearing of a case that led to a controversial ruling last month invalidating the city'...
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State Sen. Wayne Bryant pleaded not guilty
Legal News Center 04/10/2007[##_1L|1193065311.jpg|width="100" height="110" alt=""|_##]One of the most powerful politicians in Southern New Jersey pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges. Senator Wayne Bryant is accused of using his clout as head of the Senate Budget Co...
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DOJ and Inova Fairfax Hospital Reach Settlement Agreement
Legal News Center 04/10/2007[##_1L|1311517904.jpg|width="150" height="153" alt=""|_##]The Department of Justice today announced a comprehensive settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Inova Fairfax Hospital, a hospital serving the Virginia subu...
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Bush To Renew Effort On Immigration Plan
Legal News Center 04/09/2007[##_1L|1079995402.gif|width="135" height="114" alt=""|_##]President Bush returns to work Monday on the volatile issue of immigration, where his hope for a legislative breakthrough is complicated by cold relations with Congress. Bush will be back in Y...
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Reserve duty at issue in U.S. Attorney firing
Legal News Center 04/06/2007[##_1L|1069185302.jpg|width="130" height="111" alt=""|_##]The federal Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether the Bush administration's firing of David Iglesias, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico and a captain in the Navy Reserv...
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US intelligence chief criticizes surveillance laws
Legal News Center 04/05/2007John M. "Mike" McConnell, who succeeded John Negroponte as US Director of National Intelligence in February, delivered a policy address to the 2007 Excellence in Government Conference Wednesday criticizing federal surveillance laws as outdated and un...
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Bush calls on Congress to promote new fuels
Legal News Center 04/03/2007[##_1L|1238141137.gif|width="135" height="114" alt=""|_##]President Bush urged Congress on Tuesday to adopt his proposed targets for alternative fuel use as a way of combating greenhouse gas emissions a day after the US Supreme Court ruled in Massach...
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FCC order strengthens pretexting regulations
Legal News Center 04/03/2007The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new privacy rules for telephone and wireless companies on Tuesday aimed at strengthening safeguards against pretexting, the disclosure of personal telephone records to unauthorized individuals. The ...