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Court: US can block mad cow testing

8/29/2008 10:58:20 PM

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Former SuperSonics owner dropping Bennett lawsuit

8/29/2008 10:07:16 PM

Source: Miami Herald

Judges refuse to rehear W. Pa. ex-Nazi guard case

8/29/2008 7:16:51 PM

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Man Accused In Obama Threat Appears In Court

8/29/2008 7:13:43 PM

Source: CBS 2 Los Angeles (KCAL)

Ala. judge's goof could mean prison for ex-soldier

8/29/2008 7:13:13 PM

Source: Miami Herald

Wife Killer Reiser To Be Sentenced Friday

8/29/2008 4:41:13 PM

Source: NBC 11 Bay Area, CA (KNTV)

Industry groups sue over polar bear rule

8/29/2008 3:19:41 PM

Source: Houston Chronicle

Ohio man sentenced for writing racial hate letters

8/29/2008 2:32:36 PM

Source: Yahoo! News

Mayor files suit to block ouster

8/29/2008 3:09:57 AM

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

'Junior' Gotti pleads not guilty in Tampa

8/29/2008 1:28:04 AM

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Blogs

Petition Preview: Enya, the Death Penalty, and Video Victim Impact Evidence

8/30/2008 3:23:40 AM

Source: SCOTUSblog

AP falsely suggests Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees

8/29/2008 11:01:11 PM

Source: Media Matters for America

Creekstone Farms v. USDA:

8/29/2008 8:55:22 PM

Source: The Volokh Conspiracy

Palin Backs Teaching Creationism

8/29/2008 6:58:11 PM

Source: Political Wire

Lawyer2Lawyer: MBTA v. Anderson

8/29/2008 3:47:54 PM

Source: Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

Latest Articles

Lynch sides with Bush in opposing shield law

Talking Politics
As he gears up for a gubernatorial run in 2010, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch has assembled an eclectic and sometimes contrary portfolio of issue-related stances.
By IAN DONNIS  |  July 09, 2008
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Crackpot court

Taking a shot at the Supreme Court’s recent gunplay
This past week’s Supreme Court ruling, invalidating Washington, DC’s handgun ban, demonstrates just how far afield “movement conservatism” has taken our country.
By EDITORIAL  |  July 02, 2008
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Naked in the public square

Freedom Watch
In the finest Puritan tradition, Middlesex District Attorney Gerald Leone is crusading to save Harvard Square from the shock and awe of the nude human form.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND JAMES TIERNEY  |  June 25, 2008
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The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Freedom of expression may be guaranteed by the Constitution. But it’s an idea we have to fight for every day.
By DAN KENNEDY  |  July 05, 2008
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Habeas-corpus rights restored to enemy combatants

One of our most important civil-liberty victories to date
This past week, the Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration’s astonishing claim that it had the power to detain suspected “enemy combatants” at Guantánamo Bay — potentially for life — without fair proceedings or meaningful access to the federal courts.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  June 18, 2008
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Straight talk

It’s time to cover John M c Cain again — and here are ten good places for the media to start.
It’s been a very quiet spring for John McCain.
By ADAM REILLY  |  May 14, 2008
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Courting disaster

Why McCain’s right-wing judicial pledge would further compromise America’s future
With the price of food and gasoline running at punishing levels, it is no surprise that the economy has replaced the disastrous war in Iraq as the issue with which voters are most concerned.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 07, 2008
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Judge orders injections for Maine prisoner

Maryland exile
A Maryland court has ordered Maine prisoner Deane Brown to be forcibly injected with insulin, if necessary.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  April 23, 2008
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State sued over inmate’s death

Silencing alarms
As severely mentally ill Maine State Prison inmate Ryan Rideout prepared to hang himself from a sprinkler in his cell on the night of October 5, 2006, other inmates frantically pressed panic buttons in their cells.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  March 05, 2008
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The Station’s long shadow

Five years on, getting by remains a day-to-day challenge for some of those touched by the fire
For most Rhode Islanders, the Station nightclub conflagration — the worst disaster in the state since the hurricane of 1938 — is like a receding object in a rearview mirror.
By IAN DONNIS  |  February 20, 2008

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Two Maine Law students take on RIAA big guns
Two third-year law students working at the school’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic are taking on the RIAA on behalf of two university students.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 09, 2008
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Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments

Changing the way we see
The shapes and lines of Kelly’s big, bright, flat-color abstractions are, it turns out, taken from life.
By JON GARELICK  |  November 20, 2007
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Speak now, or forever pay for copies

Free information
Last month, the Maine court system forbade the public to photograph court documents.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  September 26, 2007
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Apolitical justice

Lefts and rights
When they began their careers in the 1960s, few would have predicted that TV broadcaster Dan Rea and US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner would make history together.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  August 15, 2007
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Federal judge says PUC's Verizon inquiry can continue

That's gotta sting
Almost exactly a year ago, the state Public Utilities Commission stepped up to guard Mainers’ privacy and phone records from Verizon.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 01, 2007
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The 10th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Mitt Romney will say or do anything if he thinks it will help him become president.
By DAN KENNEDY  |  July 10, 2007

Speech therapy

The Muzzles through the ages: 10 years of First Ammendment deterioration
The Muzzle Awards have been chronicling the worst Free Speech violations for a decade. Here are some of the lowlights from the past 10 years.
By DAN KENNEDY  |  July 03, 2007
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Alito: hypocrisy in high places

Freedom watch
The First Amendment took two big hits from the Supreme Court on June 25.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND JAMES TIERNEY  |  July 03, 2007
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Maine prison bosses violate court orders

Department of Corrections ignores federal rulings going back to the 1970s
In the activist climate of an earlier era, a Maine legal-aid group brought and won three prisoner-rights lawsuits against state corrections officials.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  June 27, 2007
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Waxin' Anglo Saxon

Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines

By JAMES PARKER  |  June 06, 2007
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Man convicted in 1970 cop killing gets new trial

8/28/2008 3:40:23 PM

Source: Minnesota Public Radio


The Trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's Driver

8/28/2008 3:28:38 PM

Source: KUOW's Weekday


Nearly 1 million bankruptcies filed - Nationwide figure is up 28.9% in past 12 months

8/28/2008 6:31:52 AM

Source: LA Daily News: Business


Panel allows judge on Supreme Court ballot

8/27/2008 9:10:39 AM

Source: Minnesota Public Radio


Judges reject attempt to remove Justice Gildea from the ballot

8/26/2008 6:18:33 PM

Source: Minnesota Public Radio

Video

Bernie Ward Spends One Last Night At Home

8/29/2008 12:39:30 PM

Source: NBC11 Video


Officer Accused Of Body Slamming Woman Due In Court

8/27/2008 8:32:11 AM

Source: NBC4 NY Video - Top News

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