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Comparative Environmental Law On The Internet
Nicholas A. Robinson The Internet provides direct access to many primary sources of Environmental Law. Nations increasingly provide their environmental statutes and regulations on the Internet. As specialist environmental law centers, universities, government agencies or other entities assemble and provide a jurisdiction's environmental laws on the Internet, a world-wide service...
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Egyptian lawyers accuse Obama of crimes against humanity
On Thursday, CBN said that lawyers in Egypt filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court charging President Obama with crimes against humanity, citing the Egyptian news outlet El Watan. The charges also allege Obama is an accessory to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has spread violence in Egypt...
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Analysis: Wikileaks verdict could discourage future whistleblowers
SAN FRANCISCO -- The first reaction among his supporters was elation -- Bradley Manning had been acquitted on the most serious charge of aiding the enemy. But within minutes, the mood deflated as the man behind the largest array ofleaks in US history was convicted on 20 of 22 espionage...
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Medical Justice – Expecting Change: the case for ending the immigration detention of pregnant women – 11/06/13
Activists Fight Detention of Pregnant Immigrants Lilian Cardona-Perez came to America when she was 15. The nation's immigration and naturalization service provided her with a valid work permit which she has renewed it each year since, as required. In 2010, Cardona-Perez was detained on a criminal charge that was ultimately...
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Florida Judge Vinson: ObamaCare ‘Must Be Declared Void’
Florida-based federal judge Roger Vinson struck down the year-old health care law, ruling that Congress exceeded its constitutional authority to require individuals to buy insurance. In a challenge by 26 states, Vinson ruled that “because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”...
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The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law. This legislation is the first major overhaul of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety responsibilities since 1938 and is a first step towards modernizing FDA’s food safety program. It will take several years to...
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Federal Court or UDRP Arbitration? How the Forum that Decides a Domain Name Dispute Can Make a Big Difference in the Results
Opponents in domain name “turf wars” usually aren’t away of a key issue. They don’t understand that the judicial body hearing their case goes a long way to determining the outcome. One way to understand how the chosen legal forum impacts results are seen in the varying deference paid by...
Read MoreBlackstone and the publicly traded law firm
In light of the Blackstone public offering, I wonder if there are any other partnerships that earn big fees that might go public. Like law firms, for example? Law firms, of course, just aren’t like publicly traded corporations. They have to be partnerships, or else they will lose their discipline...
Read MoreSanmaocase: Civil Case Judgment
The first Intermediate People' s Court of Shanghai Plaintiffs: Feng Chuyin, female, of Han nationality, born on April 3, 1923, with home address at 288-3 Wuyuan Road, Shanghai Zhang Weiwei, female, of Han nationality, born on December 27, 1941, with home address at 234 Yunnanzhong Road, Shanghai Zhang Xiao, female,...
Read MoreCould It Be Time To Trash the Pyramid Payment Schemes for Law Firms?
Amway, HerbalLife and your local corporate law firm. Not three businesses you’d usually find discussed in the same sentence. But it could be. Some observers are calling corporate law firms “giant pyramid schemes.” Between fresh-out-of-law-school attorneys and the idea the common law firm structure is outdated, it’s surprising more people...
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