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49 min ago | Chicago Tribune

Birth control case a fight over First Amendment

Lawyers for two Roman Catholic-owned companies in Illinois and Indiana argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that a law forcing them to include birth control in their employees' benefits would violate their First Amendment rights.

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Related Topix: Illinois

Wed May 22, 2013

Politico

Contraception lawsuits hit next level - GOP retools high-risk pool...

After a barrage of lawsuits from businesses, Obamacare's birth control mandate is finally hitting the judicial big time.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US News, Immigration Reform, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

The Hill

Bringing facts to bear in discussing the patent system

At the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Science, Technology, and Law 25th meeting held on May 13 and 14, CSTL considered undertaking a study of the patent system with the Academies' Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Board .

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Related Topix: US News, Science / Technology, Inventions

Common Dreams

ACLU: Federal Appeals Court Hears First For-Profit Challenge to Contraception Rule

May 22 - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments today in two cases filed by for-profit companies, one a construction contractor and the other engaged in manufacturing vehicle safety systems, challenging the Obama administration's rule requiring employers to provide insurance coverage for contraception.

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Related Topix: ACLU, US News, Activism, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Liberal Political News

Tue May 21, 2013

AmmoLand

19 Days to Deadline, Good Carry Bill In the IL House VS. Bad Carry Bill, Senate

Sen. Kwame Raoul and his Chicago-style "no carry" carry law passed out of the Senate Executive Committee by a straight party vote of 10-4 last week and could come to the floor of the Senate for a vote this week.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Illinois, Illinois Government, US News

Mon May 20, 2013

Indiana Law Blog

Courts - 'SCOTUS Takes Case on Prayer at Town Board Meetings' [Updated]

Adam Liptak of the NY Times has a brief story here on the Court's decision this morning to hear the case.

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Related Topix: US Supreme Court, US News

Philly.com

Does using a church facility for graduation ceremony violate the Constitution?

The Supreme Court has yet to decide if it will consider widely watched cases about public schools using a church facility to host graduation ceremonies, and the use of prayers to open township board meetings.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Greece, NY

Thu May 16, 2013

WHBF-TV Rock Island

Senate committee to consider gun bill

Illinois concealed carry legislation that requires special permission to have a gun in Chicago is scheduled for a Senate committee vote.

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Related Topix: Guns, US News

Wed May 15, 2013

Post-Tribune

Philpot files appeal of federal conviction; says case...

Former Lake County Coroner Thomas Philpot continues to fight his criminal conviction and 18-month prison sentence, arguing that the government proved nothing more than that he was negligent when he illegally took more than $24,000 from a state fund from 2004 to 2009 when he served as the Lake County clerk.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News

Tue May 14, 2013

JD Supra

Another Business Owner Caught By Withdrawal Liability

I have blogged before [ May 16, 2012 , November 21, 2012 , April 23, 2012 , May 15, 2012 , September 5, 2012 ] about the liability that can be imposed on businesses whose union employees participate in a multiemployer pension plan if the business ceases to participate in that plan.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, US News

JD Supra

BMO Harris Bank to Pay $400,000 to Resolve EEOC Disability Lawsuit

BMO Harris Bank will pay $400,000 to a group of 14 former employees under a consent decree entered on May 2, 2013, to resolve a disability discrimination case brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission .

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, US News

The Washington Post

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Entertainment, Television

WMGI-FM Terre Haute

More Time To Decide If Illinois Will Appeal Concea...

The U.S. Supreme Court is giving Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan more time to decide whether or not to appeal a ruling that the state's ban on carrying concealed firearms is unconstitutional.

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Related Topix: US Supreme Court, US News

Mon May 13, 2013

Free Republic

State police prepping for concealed carry law -

Even though lawmakers have been unable to agree on a plan allowing Illinoisans to carry concealed weapons, the Quinn administration has launched the process of building a computer system designed to handle future gun permits.

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Free Republic

30 days to go until Illinois gets unregulated carry

It's not really Constitutional Carry, which four states enjoy and another will have later this summer, because local home-rule government units can place restrictions and may try to make an arrest of an Illinois gun owner carrying concealed - or otherwise.

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Related Topix: US News

Sun May 12, 2013

Chicago Tribune

Supreme Court weighing public school graduation in a church

Justices have been deciding for weeks whether to take up a Wisconsin case in which a school district was found to have violated the 1st Amendment.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., US News

Fri May 10, 2013

Salem News

Judge resentences Lisbon man who didn't tell wife he was HIV positive

Tony McKenzie, the Lisbon man sentenced earlier to three years for knowingly having unprotected sex with his wife without telling her he was HIV positive, appeared for resentencing on Friday morning in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.

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Related Topix: Lisbon, OH, US News

Indiana Law Blog

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides one Indiana case today, a reversal

In ROYCE BROWN v. JOHN F. CARAWAY, WARDEN , a 28-page opinion before Judges POSNER , FLAUM , and SYKES, followed by a unusual 10-page statement by Chief Judge Easterbrook, Judge Flaum writes: In 1996, a jury in the district court for the District of Delaware convicted Royce Brown of one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Thu May 09, 2013

PR-inside.com

Vringo Announces First Quarter Results, Highlights and Subsequent Events

May 9, 2013 - Vringo, Inc. , a company engaged in the innovation, development, and monetization of mobile technologies and intellectual property, today announced operating results, highlights and subsequent events for the first quarter of 2013.

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Related Topix: Vringo, US News, Anthony Kennedy

Wed May 08, 2013

Lawyers.com

Bankruptcy May Become a Way Out of Student Loan Debt

While students get breaks on their loans in some ways, filing bankruptcy has never been one of them.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, US News