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19 hours ago ago from Kansas Scholastic Press Association
The First Amendment is critical for any journalist in the United States, but through the years the rights of the First Amendment have dramatically changed for student journalists. Two U.S. Supreme Court cases have shifted these rights for public school students across the nation, and Kansas has additional laws regarding student press rights. The Tinker Decision explained The first legal decision made about student media rights to the ...
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16 hours ago ago from Pakistani | Pakistani News | Pakistani-American News | Pakistani Blog | Pakistan Forex News | Pakistan Commodities News | Pakistan Business News | Ibrahim Sajid Malick Blog
Interior Minister Rehman Malik, ordered the respective Police Stations and the all provincial Home Secretaries Saturday to immediately file first information report (FIR) of each missing person and speed up the investigations. A high level meeting was held in the committee room of Interior Ministry, attended by Secretary of interior and defense and representatives of the provincial governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies ...
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22 hours ago ago from Blogging Censorship
On Thursday the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued two seemingly contradictory opinions involving student speech . Both cases involved students who had created fake online profiles parodying the principals at their respective schools. Both students were punished by school officials for their speech. Despite the similarities, however, the Court ruled one student’s rights had been violated while denying relief to the other student. The ...
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2 hours ago ago from Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger
February 9, 2010 Two Lessons from Perak, says The Malaysian Insider First, the courts are not the final arbiter. Such is the decaying state of institutions in Malaysia that these days a Federal Court decision is treated as just another decision. It does not have the gravitas of the US Supreme Court; judgments do not have clarity nor authority of the House of Lords, Supreme Court of India or the highest court of Canada. Such is ...
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Lawyers Back Creating New Immigration Courts
11 hours ago ago from The New York Times
Responding to pleas from immigration judges and lawyers who say the nation's immigration courts are faltering under a crushing caseload, the American Bar Association called Monday for Congress to scrap the current system and create a new, independent court for immigration cases. Doug Mills/The New York Times Judge Dana L. Marks of San Francisco said judges often felt overwhelmed. Related Times Topics: Immigration and ...
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37 minutes ago ago from The New York Times
BEIJING The sentencing of an outspoken literary editor to five years in prison for subversion showed that the Chinese government will not relent in its ongoing crackdown against critics and dissidents, supporters of the editor said Tuesday. The editor, Tan Zuoren, was sentenced Tuesday morning by a court in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party by writing and protesting recently against the ...
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10 hours ago ago from U.S. News
China sentences quake activist to 5 years' jail BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said. Attorney Pu Zhiqiang said activist Tan Zuoren was convicted and sentenced Tuesday by the Chengdu Intermediate Court. Tan's trial in August had ...
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22 hours ago ago from U.S. News
SD farmer sues over failed expansion SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A long-running legal tussle over a failed effort to build a hog barn east of Madison has moved to federal court, where a farmer argues civil rights violations because the county denied a building permit. The case has twice been before a state judge and twice before the South Dakota Supreme Court, where rulings have gone against Lake County farmer Ben Elliott. The lawsuit in ...
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22 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Ashby Jones We've made no bones of the fact that McDonald v. Chicago is our favorite case of the current Supreme Court term. The case has it all: a hot-button political issue (gun control), a set of fascinating constitutional questions, and plenty of pre-game controversy. For those who aren't familiar with the case, we suggest you get up to speed by reading Jess Bravin's story on the case, from last March, as well as our blog post on ...
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