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Blagojevich Brother Wants 'Intimate' Phone Conversations Blocked

nbcchicago.com | Posted 12.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Politics, Court, Robert Blagojevich, Rob Blagojevich, Chicago, Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Scandal, Scandal, Fbi, Chicago News

Rod Blagojevich's brother is asking a judge to keep private hundreds of "intimate" phone calls he argues the FBI wrongly intercepted as part of its in...

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Stopping Drunk Drivers

Jay Winsten | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drunk Driving, Harvard, Court, New Year's Eve, Car Crash, Senator, Policy, Designated Driver, Politics News
Jay Winsten

Our courts can lock someone up for a long time after a fatal crash. But courts alone can't prevent that crash. Alcoholics, whether acknowledged or in denial, need personal interventions to keep them off the road.

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Blagojevich Attorney: Obama As Witness Would Be 'Awesome'

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 12.16.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — One of Rod Blagojevich's attorneys said Wednesday it was possible the defense could call President Obama to take the witness stand if ...

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Andrew Joshua Wirth Tackled After Courtroom Outburst (VIDEO)

Posted 12.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Court Drama, Court, Andrwe Joshua Wirth Taclked, Man Tackled in Court VIDEO, Andrew Joshua Wirth, Man Tackled in Court, Jennifer Luick, Gregg Peters, Home News

Suspect Andrew Joshua Wirth got agitated this afternoon in court. He attempted to get up during the session, but was quickly tackled and taken away by...

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Tareq Salahi Gives Up Watch Over Landscaping Debt; Party Crashers Accused Of Bouncing $24k Check For Liquor

AP | Posted 12.05.2009 | Home

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ROCKVILLE, Md. — The Virginia couple at the center of last week's White House security breach is now accused of bouncing a nearly $24,000 check ...

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Judges Siding With Some Homeowners In Mortgage Court Fights

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Court, Debt, Judges, Economy, Real Estate, Mortgage Note, Mortgage, Lender, Homelessness, Note, Homeless, Banks, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Bankruptcy Court, Business News

FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn't a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took ...

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Denver DA Employee Suspected of Torching Own Car

CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Forgery, Fraud, Foreclosure, Kia, District Attorney Office, Bankruptcy, Colorado, Allstate, Car Loan, Court, Denver, Arson, Da, Denver News

A former supervisor at the Denver District Attorney's Office is under scrutiny, suspected of involvement in torching his own car then sending himself ...

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Dan Rather's $70 Million Case Against CBS Moves Forward

Reuters | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Vietnam Record, Suit, Dan Rather Fired, Media, George W. Bush, Cbs, Military Record, Bush Military Record, Suing, Bush, Case, National Guard, Rather, CBS News, Sumner Redstone, Court, Sues, Dan Rather, Media News

NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - A New York judge on Monday rejected CBS Corp's (CBS.N) bid to dismiss former TV news anchor Dan Rather's $70 million law...

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Unrequited Love: Is There Ever an Upside?

Robert Fuller | Posted 11.21.2009 | Style

Read More: Court, Unrequited Love, Suitor, Love, Henry James, Yeats, Courtship, Suit, Style News
Robert Fuller

No suitor wants to admit it, but those who don't return our love often give us something as valuable as those who do.

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Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Gop, Bill of Rights, The People, Eighteenth Century, State, Wickard v Filburn, Secession, James Madison, Secede, Democratic, Scotus, Civil War, Perry, Governor, President, John C Calhoun, Republican, Jefferson, Pawlenty, Gonzales v Raich, New Yorker, Federal Government, Bonkers in Georgia, Union, Nullification Crisis, Rick Perry, Virginia Resolution, Kentucky Resolutions, States, State Sovereignty, Hertzberg, Alabama, States Rights, Democrat, Congress, Thomas Jefferson, Texas, 10th Amendment, Democrats, Minnesota, Hendrik Hertzberg, John Calhoun, Tenth Amendment, Nullification, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Madison, South Carolina, Georgia, Tim Pawlenty, Court, Calhoun, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.

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Homeowners: The War Games Have Begun

Iris Martin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Predatory Lending Lawsuits, Court, Debt, Judges, Bobby Flay, War, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Mortgage Audit, Securitization, Subprime Mortgages, Loan Modifications, Predatory Lending, Federal Government, Banks, Foreclosure, Iattorneys, Mortgage Wars, Business News
Iris Martin

Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.

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Women Criminals I have Known

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Parole, Randolph Hearst, Court, Secret Service, Fbi, Sharon Tate, Leno Labianca, Murder, Gerald Ford, Rosemary laBianca, Los Feliz, Leslie Van Houten, Sara Jane Moore, Waverly Drive, 1969, Stabbing, Patricia Krenwinkle, Charles Manson, Van Houten, San Francisco, Women's Rights, Living News
Geri Spieler

It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.

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The JusticeBot 9000

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Court, Baseball, JusticeBot 9000, Empathy, Racist, Judge Sotomayor, States Rights, Scotus, Racial, Confirmation Hearings, Republican, Robot, Judge, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Farce, Satire, Balls and Strikes, Sonia Sotomayor, Some Splainin to Do, Spoof, Racism, Sotomayor, Confirmation, Umpire, Justice, Republican Party, Justicebot, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.

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9 Shark Attack Victims To Testify Before Congress

Huffington Post | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

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On Wednesday nine shark attack victims will go before congress to testify in an effort to strengthen the ban on shark finning-- slicing off a shark's ...

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Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Nickolas, Supreme Court, White House, Autoworkers, Burris, Constitutional Crisis, Power Struggle, Founding Fathers, Detainee Deaths, Gingrich, President, War Crimes, Rnc, Courts, Princeton, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Sotomayor, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Pussy Galore, Un, Ralph Nader, Judicial Activism, Republican National Committee, Court, Twitter, Terry McAuliffe, Congress, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Constitution, Mddotw, Rod Blagojevich, Sonia Sotomayor, Truth Commission, Youtube, Banks, Hillary Clinton, Uaw, Bonuses, Up or Down Vote, Michael Guest, Same Sex, Nader, President Obama, Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, United Nations, Blaggy, Filibuster, Bankers, Obama, Scotus, Prejudice, Auschwitz, Blago, Republican, Government, Blagojevich, Lionel Sosa, Pelosi, Clinton, Activism, Federal Government, Bias, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Defense of Marriage Act, Legislating From the Bench, Benefits, Gm, Pyne Prize, Roland Burris, Philip Alston, Gay, State Department, Checks and Balances, Mcauliffe, Chris Kelly, Secretary of State, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Spousal Benefits, Nominee, Doma, Torture, Alston, Politics News
Chris Weigant

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

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Judge Who Ordered Judith Miller Jailed Appointed To Spy Court

Raw Story | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Thomas F. Hogan, Spy Court, Judge, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Wiretapping, National Security Agency, Court, Judith Miller, Politics News

The judge who ordered former New York Times journalist Judith Miller jailed for refusing to reveal her sources has been appointed to the Foreign Intel...

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Elderly Saudi Woman Sentenced To 40 Lashes For Mingling

CNN | Mohammed Jamjoom and Saad Abedine | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Court, Womens Rights, Human Rights, Middle East, Sentencing, Muslim Womens Rights, Saudi Arabia, Physical Abuse, Saudi Lashes Elderly Woman, World News

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two ...

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"Law & Disorder"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style

Read More: Marriage, Careers, Criminal Justice System, Humor, Sex, Celebrities, Jury Duty, Court, Trying to Get Out of Jury Duty, Court Cases, Excuses, Style News
Jerry Zezima

I am proud and slightly flummoxed to say that I do not (as yet) have a criminal record. On the advice of my attorney, who is in jail, I can't say anything except that I am disappointed I recently wasn't chosen for jury duty.

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Yet Another Reason to Fear a McCain Supreme Court

Nathan Robinson | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Civil Liberties, Court, Law, Exclusionary Rule, Police, Scalia, Evidence, Politics News
Nathan Robinson

Those who value their civil liberties have much more to fear from a McCain Court than the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as police gain greater and greater incentives to disregard our rights without consequence.

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OJ Simpson's Attorney Speaks Out

Graham Bensinger | Posted 10.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Football, Trial, Conversation, Prison, OJ Simpson, Nfl, Yale Galanter, Interview, Las Vegas, Alfred Beardsley, Bruce Fromong, Radio, Tom Riccio, Court, Tmz, Murderer, OJ Simpson Robbery, OJ Simpson Jail, OJ Simpson Trial, Entertainment News
Graham Bensinger

OJ Simpson is standing trial after being charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, assault, and kidnapping with a deadly weapon. Simpson's Attorney Yale Galanter spoke exclusively with me.

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A McCain Court: Likely Less Than Maverick

Alexander Heffner | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home

Read More: McCain Maverick, Court, Strict Constructionist, Supreme Court, Mccain, Nominee, John McCain, Conservative Court, Home News
Alexander Heffner

Presidential candidate McCain has pledged to appoint strict constructionists to the high court-- conservatives who would attack the kind of "maverick" legislation McCain has so famously backed.

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