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What I Want For Christmas: Mass Clemency

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, Pardons, Law, Capital Punishment, George W. Bush, War on Drugs, Media, Politics, Liberty, Christmas, Freedom, Ethics, Jail, Constitution, Justice, Illinois, Mercy, Crime, Drug War, Amnesty, Toney Anaya, Massachusetts, Forgiveness, Barack Obama, Compassion, George Ryan, New York, Clemency, Pardon-Power, Religion, Prison, Michigan, Jack Johnson, Governors, Politics News

A mass, collective pardon of nonviolent offenders would reunite hundreds of thousands of families, save billions of dollars in incarceration costs, and might foster a national spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation.

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Demonizing Dean Won't Absolve This Health Care Sham

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, House, Politics, Law, Senate, Clinton, Health, Health Care Reform, Scheer, Howard Dean, Obama, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Politics News

Dean deserves much better from the left than what he got after calling for the health reform bill to be killed. His concerns as a physician and a progressive politician are worthy of serious attention.

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Judge Throws Out Political Fraud Conviction, Orders New Trial

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 12.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Fraud, Law, Politics, Chicago Patronage Case, Chicago Political Fraud Conviction, Chicago, Chicago Trial, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A federal judge threw out the fraud conviction of Chicago's former streets and sanitation commissioner Tuesday and granted him a new t...

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Obama Won't Push Equal Rights Law in the Right Direction

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 12.25.2009 | Politics

While the Obama administration pretends that the law is a concrete inflexible animal incapable of multiple interpretations, LGBT rights in this country continue to languish. Strong leadership is needed.

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Beyond Fluoride: Pharmaceuticals, Drinking Water and the Public Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Law, Philosophy, Lithium, Green, Violence, Suicide, Prozac, Drugs, Green Living, Peter Kramer, Dentistry, Texas, Politics, Pharmaceutical Industry, Human Rights, Health, Water, Ethics, Environment, Utilitarianism, Japan, Tobacco, Libertarianism, Bioethics, Medicine, Michigan, Healthcare, Cocaine, Politics News

If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.

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O'Hare Airport Expansion: City Wins Legal Battle Involving St. Johannes Cemetery

chicagotribune.com | Art Barnum | Posted 12.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Law, O'Hare International Airport, Cemetery, O'Hare Airport Expansion, O'Hare Airport, Chicago, St. Johannes Cemetery, Bensenville, Legal Battle, Airport Expansion, Chicago News

A DuPage County judge ruled Friday that Chicago can proceed with acquiring the 6.3-acre St. Johannes Cemetery, which stands in the path of a new O'Har...

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Italy's Case Against Google Is a Bad Moon Rising

Leslie Harris | Posted 12.17.2009 | Technology

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Italy, User-Generated Content, Internet Service Provider, Law, Youtube, Google, Searching, Technology News

If platforms for expression like YouTube were held responsible for all the content posted by users, then companies would be forced to actively screen all content before it could be posted -- no small feat.

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The Year of the Man-Child

Catie Lazarus | Posted 12.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Google, Inauguration Day 2009, Oxford-Health, Ikea, Fist Bump, Morgan Stanley, Elliot Spitzer, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Wall Street Bonuses, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Nbc, JP Morgan Chase, Chris Brown, Copenhagen 2009, Duane Reade, Trader Joes, Lou Dobbs, Basketball, Michelle Duggar, Barack Obama, Driving While Texting, Drunk Driving, Hilary Clinton, Aol, Rahm Emanuel, Banking Crisis, CVS Pharmacies, Us Treasury, Mark Sanford, Law, Msnbc, Driving, Mitch McConnell, Woody Allen, Nadya Suleman, Sarah Palin Vice President, Immigration, Iphone, Infidelity, Time Warner, Finance, Rupert Murdoch, Fidelity Investments, Hamid Karzai, Rihanna, John McCain, Proctor & Gamble, Twitter, Ge, Oprah, Macys, Hbo, Howie Mandel, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, C-Span, Murder, Tiger Woods Affair, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Apple, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Jon Gosselin, Sarah Palin, Fox News, Joe Lieberman, Netflix, Andre Agassi, Comedy News

What Did You Learn in 2009? Test your knowledge by answering these objectively scientific questions about the celebrities, politicians and fifteen minute famers who made headlines.

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Feds on Your Friends List

Leslie Harris | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Law Enforcement Agency, Social Network Service, University of California Berkeley, Law, Facebook, Fbi, Federal Government of the United States, Technology News

Because social media is a largely unregulated environment, law enforcement is advancing into the field unchecked. We need to start laying down guidelines for law enforcement access to social networking data.

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Adultery Still A Crime In New Hampshire After 200 Years

AP | NORMA LOVE | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Hampshire, Adultery, Law, Crime, New Hampshire Adultery Law, Nh Adultery Law, Adultery Laws, Marriage Laws, Marriage, Politics News

CONCORD, N.H. — The original punishments – including standing on the gallows for an hour with a noose around the neck – have been so...

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Is Major League Baseball Going Broke? Why American Needle Makes Sports Leagues Nervous

Brian Ross | Posted 12.12.2009 | Sports

Major League Baseball appears to be hurting financially. The signs were there from the time we landed at the airport in Indianapolis, site of this year's Baseball Winter Meetings.

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The Death Penalty as Punishment for Being Gay - Apparently Uganda Doesn't Know it's 2009

Jenny Block | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Homosexuality, Anti-Gay Laws, Gay Rights, Holocaust, Nazi, Africa, Hitler, Museveni, Hillary Clinton, Uganda, Gay, Gay-Issues, Nazi Germany, Gay Marriage, Politics News

In television and film they call it jumping the shark. In real life we generally call it ridiculous. In this case the only word is appalling. On second thought, disgusting fits too.

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Smart Grid: Classic Struggle of Reward vs. Risk

Leslie Harris | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Security, Efficient Energy Use, Smart Meter, Law, Smart Grid, Technology, Privacy, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology News

The transition to the "Smart Grid" holds great promise for consumers, such as lowered energy costs, increased use of "green" technology and improved security from malicious hacking and outages.

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Putin's Big Lie About Khodorkovsky

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 12.04.2009 | World

Read More: Energy, Russia, Law, Sergei Magnitsky, Vladislav Surkov, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News

Blood libel is Putin's Big Lie, and it is the ultimate mendacious recourse that the Kremlin falls back upon in times of desperation.

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Harvard Stops Free-Tuition Program For Students Pledging To Go Into Public Law

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Boston, Law, Tuition, Larry Summers, Economy, Non-Profits, Harvard, Law School, Student Loans, Recession, Government, Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard Law, Public Law, Endowment, Cambridge, Home News

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University's law school will stop offering a year of free tuition to students who go into public service law after gr...

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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Rom Houben, Law, Culture Wars, Hoax, Liberals, Belgium, Civil Rights, James Randi, Euthanasia, Religion, Politics, Human Rights, Conservatives, Dalton Trumbo, Right to Die, Health, Coma, Ethics, Arthur Caplan, Morality, Technology, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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The Fall Of Greg Craig

TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...

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Gift Card Crackdown By Feds Aims To Protect Consumers

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Gift Card Crackdown, Law, Gift Cards, Crackdown, Gift Card Crackdown Holidays, Federal Government, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Monday proposed new rules to protect consumers from unexpected costs or restrictions on gift cards. More than...

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Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.

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Civilian Trials for Terrorists Highlight Differences Between Presidents

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Islam, Law, Muslim, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Terrorism, Bin Laden, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Politics News

For Obama, the ability to showcase our justice system in a case involving one of the world's most reviled accused terrorists represents an important opportunity to define America before history and the world.

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Health "Insurance": A Criminal Enterprise

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Politics, Human Rights, Crime, Harry Truman, Health Care Reform, Henry Waxman, Health Insurance, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, Barack Obama, Politics News

I have little doubt that the day will soon arrive when the CEOs of health "insurers" are dragged before Congress to face the same sort of interrogation to which the Waxman Hearings subjected Big Tobacco in the 1990s.

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The Lawyers Who Would Torture

David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.

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PepsiCo's $1.26 Billion Case: How Did This Happen?

Read More: Drinks, Law, Pepsi Co, Court Case, PepsiCo.'s $1.26 Billion Case, Court Cases, Pepsi Co Court Case, Beverages, Pepsi, Pepsico, Business News

PepsiCo has been hit with a $1.26 billion judgment for failing to respond -- at all -- to a lawsuit. If someone sues you and you fail to show up, the ...

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A Seedling of Sanity Takes Root in the War On Drugs

Rich Robinson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Medical Marijuana, Justice Department, Medicine, Marijuana, Pot, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Legalize Marijuana, Politics News

It is time to cast aside all of the misinformation and propaganda about what marijuana is and what it is not. At least we are on the right path.

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Cease and Desist: David, Goliath and Social Media (David's Sword)

Jamie Starr | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Brazil, Vermont, Trademarks, Documentary, Colorado, Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Level 1, WME, Warren Miller, Denver News

In cases like the lawsuit against the ski film company Level 1, social media outlets are acting as a sort of gatekeeper -- a check on corporate actions that people in general view as unreasonable.

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