Recent Updates
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New population count may complicate Obama 2012 bid
Legal News Feed 12/19/2010The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month's devastating elections.The population continue...
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Prop 8 fight reaches next judicial rung
Legal News Feed 12/06/2010A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on whether California's same-sex marriage ban is constitutional in a hearing to be televised nationally.The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear argumen...
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DOJ: Lawyer's recovered e-mails show no misconduct
Legal News Feed 11/10/2010The Justice Department reviewed newly found e-mails sent by a Bush administration lawyer and stands by a conclusion that the attorney did not commit professional misconduct in authorizing CIA interrogators to use waterboarding and other harsh tactics...
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Obama and Democrats count on Senate wins out West
Legal News Feed 10/19/2010President Barack Obama heads to California and Washington state this week to drum up support for endangered incumbents Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray in the last days of a campaign that finds his Democrats playing defense around the country.Wins in t...
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Special Agent Retaliated Against After Witnessing and Reporting Harassment
Legal News Feed 10/18/2010It’s yet another of case of discrimination within the United States Capitol Police (USCP). This time, the victim is a female Special Agent assigned to protect one the nation’s most powerful politicians. Special Agent Luanne Moran, who was assig...
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Administration launches China trade investigation
Legal News Feed 10/15/2010The Obama administration has decided to launch an investigation into various Chinese practices that a major U.S. union says are robbing American workers of jobs in the burgeoning field of clean energy such as solar and wind power.U.S. Trade Represent...
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Lawyer in Whitman flap mum on details, party ties
Legal News Feed 10/06/2010Republican Meg Whitman's former maid said Tuesday she's not a Democratic pawn in California's race for governor, but her attorney refused again to provide key details about her claims that Whitman employed her for nearly a decade despite knowing she ...
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Court denies Burris request to stop election
Legal News Feed 09/21/2010The Supreme Court says it won't stop a special election for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat that leaves out current Illinois Sen. Roland Burris.Burris earlier this month asked the high court to block plans for a special Senate election that ...
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Court won't order California to defend Prop 8
Legal News Feed 09/10/2010California's highest court on Wednesday refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state's attorney general to appeal a federal ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban.The state Supreme Court denied a conservative legal group's r...
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Court asked to keep stem cell money flowing
Legal News Feed 09/09/2010The Obama administration is asking a federal appeals court to lift an order blocking federal funding for some stem cell research, a day after being turned down by the judge who issued the order.The administration told a federal appeals court in Washi...
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Top Ga. court considers voter ID law
Legal News Feed 09/07/2010Georgia's top court is considering the legality of the state's oft-challenged law that requires voters to show photo identification before they cast their ballots.The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on a new type of legal chall...
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Ginsburg talks about television and the high court
Legal News Feed 08/30/2010Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says television has profoundly changed confirmation hearings but declined to say whether she'd oppose televising arguments.Ginsburg told a Colorado judicial conference Friday that TV has made Supreme Court co...