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New mayor reflects on tumult, looks forward
Fourth in a series of profiles about those in the trenches of Costa Mesa's political battles. * Each Sunday the new mayor of Costa Mesa prays to God to help him forgive others, to help him not hold a grudge, to give him guidance for the week before...
Tags: Democratic Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Markets, Los Angeles Times, Ronald Reagan
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Chin Helen Mc Laughlin
Chin Helen Mc Laughlin passed away peacefully in her sleep on July 19, 2011 after courageously and successfully fighting lung and brain cancers. She was born in Boston in 1940 to Chinese immigrants. Her parents instilled in her and her brothers and...Tags: Relay for Life, Ice Cream, Foods and Beverages, Career and Workplace, Human Interest
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Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions"
Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions" By Elizabeth Sherwood North Central Michigan College student There are many people who have played an important role in the journey to equality for all. The most notable of those people...Tags: Racism, Crime, Law and Justice, Harriet Tubman, Social Issues, University of South Carolina
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: Criminal Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Nigeria, Laws, Antonin Scalia
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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declared that American courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding suits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and foreign tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed...Tags: Criminal Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Antonin Scalia, Civil Rights
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Deep in the reeds on genes
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...Tags: Baseball, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Sports, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him
It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...
Tags: Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Gays and Lesbians, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Antonin Scalia
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Why North Carolina can't have its own official church
In recent days my Facebook feed has been littered with links to stories about a bill in the North Carolina Legislature that would allow the state to establish its own religion. Here was another example, my outraged friends said, of Bible Belt...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Church and State Relations
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Gays and Lesbians, U.S. House of Representatives, Antonin Scalia
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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...Tags: Gay Rights, Marriage, Voting, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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The stakes before the court
WASHINGTON -- Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try. The two big cases being argued this...
Tags: The Washington Post, Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Gays and Lesbians, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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A ruling on racial progress
I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham's Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires local officials to get permission, or...
Tags: Racism, Voting, New York City, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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