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July 2009

Legal Research Meets Web 2.0

July 31, 2009

Free legal dictionary app for your iPhone
Download Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary for free from the iTunes Store. 
Nolo Press is a publisher of legal self-help books.  “Edited by a team of lawyers with expertise in all the vital areas of the law, Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary contains nearly 4,000 legal terms defined in everyday, understandable [...]

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Committee Action on Health Care Reform and Abortion Funding

July 31, 2009

     Today the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led by Rep. Henry Waxman, is likely to report the "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" bill to the floor of the House of Representatives.  Here are links to the bill and a summary of it.  Below the fold is a discussion of how the bill will [...]

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Karl Rove and the U.S. Attorney Firings

July 30, 2009

     Here are news reports in the wake of Karl Rove's testimony today before the House Judiciary Committee regarding his role in the firing of several U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration.

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Memorable Subprime Fraud Quotes

July 30, 2009

The Wall Street Journal reports today that:
A Senate panel has subpoenaed financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, seeking evidence of fraud in last year's mortgage-market meltdown, according to people familiar with the situation.  The congressional investigation appears to focus on whether internal communications, such as email, show bankers had private [...]

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Proposed Amendments to the Military Commissions Act: (3) The Right to Counsel

July 30, 2009

     The National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 amends the Military Commissions Act of 2006 by expressly protecting the defendant's right to choose the attorney who will represent him.

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Proposed Amendments to the Military Commissions Act: (2) Relevancy and Hearsay Rules

July 29, 2009

     As noted in yesterday's post, the 2010 Military Appropriations Bill (S. 1390)adopted by the Senate last week makes a number of modifications to the Military Commissions Act in order to bring that law into conformity with our obligations under the Geneva Conventions.  This post describes changes that the proposed law would make to the hearsay [...]

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The Posse Comitatus Act, the Insurrection Act, the Insurrection Act Rider, and the Lackawanna Six

July 28, 2009

     Lou Michel of the Buffalo News reports today that in 2002 former Vice-President Richard Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld proposed to President George W. Bush that the United States Army should carry out the arrests of six  suspected terrorists in Lackawanna, New York, and that they should be held by the military as "enemy combatants."

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Proposed Amendments to the Military Commissions Act: (1) Admissibility of Confessions

July 28, 2009

     It was big news last week when the Senate stripped funding for the F-22 from the 2010 Military Appropriations Bill.  Lost in the shuffle is that fact that the same bill makes important modifications to the Military Commissions Act in order to bring the law into conformity with our treaty obligations under the Geneva Conventions.  [...]

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How to Survive an ERISA Audit

July 27, 2009

The University of Akron School of Law will sponsor a continuing education program titled "How to Survive an ERISA Audit" on Sept. 10, 2009 at The University of Akron Martin Center. Compliance with Department of Labor Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under ERISA is complex. Entities which do not comply with audit requirements [...]

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Under Fire in Congress

July 27, 2009

     Congress is considering measures that would repeal the policy prohibiting gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

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The Professor, the Sergeant, and the President: The Invitation

July 26, 2009

     President Obama has invited Professor Henry Louis Gates and Police Sergent James Crowley to the White House and to discuss the incident in Cambridge over a beer.

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Ethics for the State Legislature

July 24, 2009

Can a state representative vote for raises for employees of the General Assembly in which his wife was recently hired.  Isn’t this an ethics violation?
Can our local congressman accept free loge season passes to local University football games?
What top 3 lobbyists spent the most money on the Ohio General Assembly last year?

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