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Congress, Society April 6, 2014April 6, 2014

Off The Reservation: Tribes Under Fire For Dropping Members Found To Be Not “Indian Enough”

There is an interesting story below on the nationwide trend of Native American tribes to exclude potentially thousands from membership…

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Courts, International, Media, Society April 5, 2014

Google Hit With $1.4 Million Fine For Not Having Easily Recognizable Cars

We have been following stories of how European courts have been hammering Internet companies in stripping posters of anonymity and…

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Environment, International, Politics, Society April 3, 2014April 3, 2014

Australian Government Moves To Ban Environmental Boycotts Under Competition Laws

We have been discussing the horrific rollback of environmental protections in Australia under Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Now, Abbott’s government…

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Bizarre, Criminal law April 3, 2014April 3, 2014

“Lord and Lady Chisholm” Arrested For Welfare Fraud In Florida

If the police are correct, Colin Chisholm III, 62, and Andrea Chisholm, 54, just may be the most outrageous welfare…

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Criminal law, Society April 2, 2014

Fool Me Once . . . : April Fool’s Day Prank Of Daughter Leads To Mother’s Arrest

Angela Timmons, 54, an employee at Virginia College in South Carolina, appears to have carried out an April Fools’ Day…

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Criminal law, Society March 31, 2014

Colorado Man Accuses Idaho State Troopers of Searching Car Due To His Colorado Plates After The Legalization of Marijuana

Not that long ago, we discussed a case where an elderly couple was pulled over by Tennessee police because they…

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Academia, Constitutional Law, Criminal law, Free Speech March 28, 2014March 28, 2014

Please Don’t Attack The “Outsiders”: California University Official Issues Letter In Miller-Young Controversy

We recently discussed the controversy surrounding a confrontation between Thrin Short, 16, and her sister Joan, 21, and Feminist Studies…

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Criminal law, Lawyering, Society March 27, 2014March 27, 2014

From Criminal Counsel To Mafia Moll: Arizona Lawyer Sentenced For Crimes With Gang Leader Husband (and Client)

Carmen Lynn Fischer Garcia, a Phoenix defense attorney, has pleaded guilty and received a three year prison sentence for crimes…

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Environment, International, Society March 26, 2014March 26, 2014

Exporting Smog and Surveillance: China Continues To Remake The World In Its Own Image

A new report from the World Health Organization details how 7 million people are dying from air pollution every year…

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Academia, Society March 26, 2014

Colorado Girl Shaves Head In Solidarity With Friend In Chemotherapy . . . School Suspends Girl For Violating Dress Code

In what has become the new normal for teachers and administrators, we have yet another case of a suspension based…

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Constitutional Law, Courts, Lawyering, Society, Torts March 25, 2014March 25, 2014

A Question of “Donning and Doffing” or Just Dumbing Down? Posner Rejects Workers’ Appeal Citing Videotaped “Experiment” By Court Staff Disproving Key Allegation

Despite my great respect for Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner (whose brilliant writings on legal theory have shaped much of…

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Congress, Constitutional Law, Criminal law, Free Speech, Media, Politics, Society March 25, 2014

New York Times’ Risen Calls Obama Administration “The Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom” In A Generation

I recently wrote a column on the wholesale attack on press freedoms under President Obama that parallel his attack on…

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Free Speech, Justice, Lawyering, Military, Politics, Society, Torts March 22, 2014March 22, 2014

City of Oakland agees to settle with Marine vet Scott Olsen for $4.5 million.

by Charlton “Chuck” Stanley, Weekend Contributor The city of Oakland has entered into an agreed order to pay former Marine…

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Filed under: Oakland Police Department, Occupy Oakland, Scott Olsen
Academia, Criminal law, Free Speech March 21, 2014March 23, 2014

California Professor Charged With Battery and Theft In Confrontation With Pro-Life Protesters

We recently discussed the controversy surrounding a confrontation between Thrin Short, 16, and her sister Joan, 21, and Feminist Studies…

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Constitutional Law, Free Speech, International March 21, 2014March 21, 2014

British Move Toward Censoring “Unsavory” Internet Speech

I have repeatedly written on the alarming erosion of free speech in the United Kingdom, particularly as a result of…

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