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Court tosses White House appeal on visitor logs
Legal News Feed 07/11/2008A federal appeals court on Friday set back the White House's efforts to keep the names of its visitors secret.The three-member panel of judges threw out the government's appeal in the case in which a watchdog group is trying to find out how often pro...
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Senate to pass bill overhauling eavesdropping rules
Legal News Feed 07/09/2008The Senate finally is expected to pass a bill overhauling rules on secret government eavesdropping, completing a lengthy and bitter debate that pitted privacy and civil liberties concerns against the desire to prevent terrorist attacks.The vote, plan...
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Court criticizes govt evidence in Guantanamo hearing
Legal News Feed 07/01/2008[##_1L|1196739836.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]A US federal appeals court has overturned the designation of a Muslim from western China as an enemy combatant and sharply criticized the government's evidence against him, court documents show...
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Beshear's former law firm to represent him
Legal News Feed 06/03/2008Gov. Steve Beshear has turned to his former law firm of Stites & Harbison to represent him and the governor's office in the lawsuit brought by Senate President David Williams over road funding. After deciding to outsource his legal representation...
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Supreme Court sides with Ala. governor
Legal News Feed 05/27/2008The Supreme Court has ruled for Alabama's governor in a dispute over his attempt to fill a county commission vacancy with a fellow Republican appointee.In a 7-2 ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Gov. Bob Riley did not need advance approval fro...
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McCain castigates Obama on judges
Legal News Feed 05/07/2008Republican John McCain criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for voting against John Roberts as U.S. chief justice, reaching out to the Christian right on one of their chief concerns: the proper role of judges in government.Conservatives contend t...
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Obama, Clinton court working families
Legal News Feed 05/01/2008Barack Obama teamed up with wife Michelle on Wednesday to court working families with a little kitchen table conversation about tax cuts. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton hitched a ride in a pickup truck to a gas pump to illustrate the pain inflicted on ...
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White House challenges release of visitor logs
Legal News Feed 04/22/2008A federal appeals court sought compromise Monday between a liberal group demanding the names of White House visitors and the Bush administration, which says releasing the names would erode the president's power. If released, the documents would show ...
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Paulson Urges Tighter Mortgage Oversight
Legal News Feed 03/13/2008Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday that a presidential working group wants stronger regulatory oversight of mortgage lenders to avert the kind of credit crisis that is dragging the economy down.In a new Bush administration initiative that...
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White House Denies Friction With Fallon
Legal News Feed 03/12/2008The White House on Wednesday rejected charges that it quashes dissenting views in the military, an accusation brought to light by the resignation of Navy Adm. William J. Fallon as commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East.For Fallon, the perception...
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Prostitution Scandal Threatens N.Y. Gov
Legal News Feed 03/11/2008As Gov. Eliot Spitzer faced mounting calls to resign amid a prostitution scandal, a law enforcement official said Tuesday that the governor first came under suspicion because of cash payments from several bank accounts to an account operated by a cal...
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Bush vetoes U.S. bill outlawing CIA waterboarding
Legal News Feed 03/08/2008[##_1L|1110717560.jpg|width="110" height="128" alt=""|_##]U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques. Lawmak...