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Arizona's immigration law is back in court, "self-deportation" on the rise

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Public Radio International - By The Takeaway - Apr. 26 (News Report) - The term "self-deportation" started out as a joke made by Mexican-American satirist Lalo Alcaraz. Since then, the joke has taken on a life of its own, becoming a catch-phrase for supporters of anti-illegal immigration legislation.

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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By LA Times Staff - Feb. 07 (Breaking News) - A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.

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Tucson's ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge rules

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Stephen Ceasar - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The ruling affirms a decision by the state schools superintendent and could end classes on Mexican American heritage.

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Newt Gingrich: Abolish Liberal, 'Anti-American' Courts

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 15 (News Report) - Gingrich has called for the abolition of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which is despised by conservatives for many of its liberal rulings.

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U.S. District Attorney Goodwin: Alpha "not a life, it's not a being, it can't go to jail."

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - Montcoal, WV. 3:27 PM on Monday, April 5, 2010. It was the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in nearly 40 years. Twenty months ago, just across the river from Coal River Mountain on Cherry Pond Mountain near its mountaintop removal mine, Massey Energy's underground mine at Upper Big Branch exploded.

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'Clearing the Smoke': The Benefits, Limits of Medical Marijuana | PBS NewsHour | PBS Video

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Lessons from a gay student's killing

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Sandy Banks - Sep. 06 (News Report) - Neither family was satisfied when the jury deadlocked last week in the trial of an Oxnard teenager charged with murdering a gay middle-school classmate before stunned students in an English class. The parents of the dead boy, Larry King, stormed out of court when the mistrial was announced. The mother of defendant Brandon McInerney buried her face in her hands, slumped and sobbed.

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'Kids for cash' judge sentenced to 28 years for racketeering scheme

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Warren Richey - Aug. 12 (News Report) - A former juvenile court judge in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Thursday for his part in an alleged “kids for cash” scam considered one of the worst judicial scandals in US history. Mark Ciavarella Jr., 61, a former judge in Luzerne County, was also ordered to pay $1.17 million in restitution. Mr. Ciavarella was convicted in federal court in Scranton, Pa., in February on charges that he and a second judge, Michael Conahan, ran the local court system as a racketeering enterprise.

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What did Nixon say?

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Rick Perlstein - Aug. 09 (News Report) - A judge says the disgraced president's grand jury testimony, the one time he was required to tell the truth of Watergate, should be unsealed. Prepare to be shocked anew by the politician's venality.

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How USA Today Slips $82 Million a Year Onto Your Hotel Bill

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jeff Bercovici - Aug. 02 (News) - Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today, has been profiting to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year from these small charges.

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The Ultimate Punishment

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Corbin - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - While capital punishment has been upheld in the courts and has high levels of support among the public, the death penalty is on the decline nationwide. Yet in Maryland, as in all death penalty states, major variations exist at the local level.

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City landlord pleads guilty in lead paint case

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Meredith Cohn - Jul. 19 (News) - A Baltimore landlord with a history of violations of lead paint abatement laws agreed to plead guilty Tuesday to three misdemeanor violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act. Cephus Murrell, who owns and manages 175 apartments in Baltimore, failed to notify tenants of potential hazards from lead paint, conducted abatement while children were on site and did not have a supervisor on site during the abatement, according to the office of the U.S. attorney for Maryland.

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Accused in robo-call case plead not guilty

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Aaron C. Davis - Jul. 18 (News) - A top campaign aide and a political operative who worked on former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s bid to retake the governor’s mansion last year pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that they sought to use robo-calls to suppress turnout among black voters.

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Md. robo-call case going to court

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Aaron C. Davis - Jul. 17 (News) - As the case moves to court Monday, the lesser-known defendant and his often controversial, behind-the-scenes work for Maryland political campaigns are poised to take center stage.

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The Budget-Slashing Hysteria's Latest Victim: Legal Aid for the Poor

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kat Aaron - Jul. 13 (Special Report) - "Demand is just going to keep going up. People are still losing their jobs. People are still struggling to put food on the table. Foreclosures are still happening," says Cynthia Martinez, spokeswoman for Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, the state's largest legal-services agency. "Last year, we had to turn away half of the people that came to us because we just don't have the resources. And it's not like when we say no, the legal problems just go away."

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Court limits Sparrows Point pollution liability

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Timothy B. Wheeler - Jul. 12 (News) - In a ruling that's left Dundalk-area residents shaking their heads, a federal court has declared that recent owners of the century-old steel-making complex at Sparrows Point can't be made to clean up past contamination of surrounding waters.

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Maryland trial judges pay is 43rd worst in nation

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Megan Poinksi - Jul. 11 (News) - When adjusted for cost of living, Maryland’s judges are some of the worst paid in the nation, according to a study from the National Center for State Courts.

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Bail bondsmen sentenced in tax fraud case

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Nick Madigan - Jul. 08 (News) - Baltimore bail bondsman Milton Tillman Jr. and his namesake son, who ran Four Aces Bail Bonds, were sentenced Friday in federal tax-fraud cases that will send the older man to prison while allowing the younger man to continue in the bail business.

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The Supreme Court closes the door to justice

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - Has the Supreme Court lost faith in the American court system? That is a strange question to ask about the justices who sit at the top of the country's judicial hierarchy. But in case after case in the just-completed term, the court, usually in 5-4 decisions with the conservatives in the majority, denied access to the courts.

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A Confession In The Murder Of A Baltimore Doctor

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WBAL Radio - By John Patti, Associated Press - Jul. 06 (News) - A 57 year old Tennessee man has confessed to killing a Baltimore child psychologist in 1998. The surprise murder confession came in a courtroom Tuesday as Dale Mardis was about to be sentenced to life for a conviction in the racially motivated killing of an African American code enforcement officer in 2001.

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Disparity Found Among Disability Judges

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Edward Ericson Jr. - Jul. 05 (News) - In San Antonio, Texas, people hoping to get Social Security disability payments could see their cases assigned to any of 17 judges. The luck of this draw matters a lot.

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Justice Dept.: Strike Down DOMA

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Trudy Ring - Jul. 04 (News Report) - The Department of Justice Friday gave pro–marriage equality activists a pleasant surprise by arguing strongly against the Defense of Marriage Act in a brief filed in federal court that acknowledges the history of discrimination against gays and lesbians.

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With fewer arrests in Baltimore, fewer cases that don't stick

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton - Jul. 03 (News) - Now, a police commissioner armed with a strategy of more targeted enforcement of violent gun offenders has the department on track to record half as many arrests as five years ago — with the added benefit of crime going down.

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Early Release

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Corbin - Jul. 01 (News) - By 2002, the sentencing law had produced such racially disparate outcomes that the U.S. Sentencing Commission observed that it had come to “foster disrespect for and lack of confidence in the criminal justice system” for most African Americans.

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Vindication mixes with continued uncertainty for Exxon plaintiffs

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Arthur Hirsch - Jul. 01 (News) - The oversized windows of Hans Wilhelmsen's house in Jacksonville command a view to the east of hills dotted with baled hay and stands of oak, maple and pine on the 70 acres he owns a mile south of where an Exxon station unleashed an underground flood of unleaded gasoline five years ago. Thirteen bison patrolled the fields then, but they're gone now, and Wilhelmsen is sure he knows why.

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