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2 hrs ago | Salt Lake Tribune

Angst over federal health law could hurt home grown fixes

With the law's fate resting with the U.S. Supreme Court, their attention may be elsewhere.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US News, Medicaid, Health, Utah

6 hrs ago | Lake Wales News

States slowly opening courts to news cameras

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears challenges to the national health care law this spring, fewer than 2,000 people, including press, guests and representatives of the public, will be able to see the court proceedings with their own eyes.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US News, Illinois

10 hrs ago | WKYT

Ky. lawmakers join challenge to health care reform

Nearly all of Kentucky's state-level Republican lawmakers have signed a legal brief in support of a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

15 hrs ago | Hampton Roads Daily Press

Man asks federal court to overturn '91 capital murder conviction in Newport News

Attorneys for David Wayne Boyce, a Newport News man convicted in 1991 in the killing of his roommate at a Newport News motel, are now going to federal court in hopes of getting the state conviction overturned.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Prison, US News

19 hrs ago | The Las Vegas Sun

US Supreme Court won't permit Ohio execution

The status of a dozen Ohio executions scheduled over the next two years was uncertain following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to allow a temporary delay in capital punishment to stay in place.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Mike DeWine, US Senate, Republican, Ohio, Death Penalty, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

23 hrs ago | Star Tribune

a TV storyteller - and cheerleader

Catherine Allan's latest production, "Slavery by Another Name," looks at how blacks were abused and imprisoned on trumped-up charges between the Civil War and World War II.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Movies, US News

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Women's eNews

Gertner Defeats 1979 Massachusetts Anti-Choice Law

On June 13, 1979, Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King, sporting a red rose , signed into law an abortion bill that prohibited the use of state or any other public funds for abortions, even for victims of rape or incest.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Abortion, ACLU, US News

Burbank Leader

Prop. 8 ruling welcomed by Burbank couple

Plaintiffs Paul Katami, right, and Jeff Zarillo, left, speak at a Los Angeles press conference at Vibiana's Tuesday morning February 7 2012 after a federal appeals court 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.The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S.

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Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Wedding, Gay/Lesbian, US News

WDBO-AM Orlando

Noted US Latino scholar 'forgotten' in birthplace

A son of an Arizona miner, the Albuquerque-born Sanchez worked his way out of poverty as a rural public school teacher in New Mexico to become a pioneer scholar and education activist.

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Related Topix: New Mexico, New Mexico Government, Albuquerque, NM, African-American, US News, Texas A&M University

TBD.com

Va. House panel endorses controversial 'personhood' bill

The Courts of Justice Committee voted 14-4 to send Del. Bob Marshall's so-called "personhood" bill to the House floor, where it will be up for a final vote Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Prince William, World News, Abortion, US News, Virginia, ACLU

Reuters

Same-sex couples will save if DOMA is struck down

Jeff Zarillo and his partner Paul Katami arrive hand-in-hand to address a news conference after the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared California's ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, unconstitutional in Los Angeles, California February 7, 2012.

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Related Topix: US News, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Gay/Lesbian, Social Security, Personal Finance, Medicaid, Health, Medicare

Whittier Daily News

Federal judge dismisses GOP's political map suit

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Republicans challenging California's newly drawn congressional maps, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission announced Friday in its latest court victory.

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Related Topix: US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, George Radanovich

Fri Feb 10, 2012

WHTC

Utah allows firing squad request to avoid e...

Utah prosecutors have reluctantly allowed a condemned killer to seek execution by firing squad rather than by lethal injection, saying they want to avoid further delays in putting him to death.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News, Death Penalty, Activism, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Inside Bay Area

Final defendant sentenced for 2009 San Pablo witness killing

The final defendant in the 2009 slaying of a murder trial witness has been sentenced to 73 years to life in prison, concluding a case a prosecutor called "one of the worst things that can happen in the criminal justice system." Hung Quoc Nguyen, 26, was sentenced Friday in a Pittsburg courtroom by Judge Theresa Canepa, who also denied his motion ... (more)

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Related Topix: San Pablo, CA, US News, Science / Technology, GPS

KHGI

Proposed Kan. abortion ban blocked by abortion foe

An influential anti-abortion legislator is blocking the push for a ban on abortion in the Kansas Constitution, highlighting a split among abortion opponents over tactics and frustrating the group advocating the "personhood" proposal Friday.

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Related Topix: Abortion, Kansas, Tax, US News

The Brad Blog

Unlikely Supreme Court Will Overturn 9th Circuit Prop 8 Unconstitutionality Ruling

TODAY: Romney and Paul confused about public lands; Wacked-out Winter 2012; Most anti-environment GOP ever; PLUS: Clint Eastwood and the greenest Super Bowl yet... But don't blame either the voters or the hand-counted paper ballots they cast for the state Republican Party's complete bust... You're welcome! PLUS: Jack Abramoff -- yes, that Jack ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ron Paul, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, South Carolina, Chris Christie, US Governors, Hillary Clinton, Liberal Political News

Canadian Business Magazine

Foreign donations a risk in US race

Money pouring into the presidential election from super political action committees and nonprofit campaign groups appears so far to be strictly American in origin, donated by U.S. companies, unions and millionaires.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, Games, Card Game, Barack Obama

Patch.com

Organization Files Appeal to Supreme Court Over Mt. Soledad Cross

The Liberty Institute and other supporters of the Mount Soledad cross, including the Mount Soledad Memorial Association , hosted a rally at the base of the war memorial on Thursday morning to announce the appeal to an appellate court's ruling declaring the cross unconstitutional.

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Related Topix: San Diego, CA, US Military, US Marine Corps, Camp Pendleton, US Army, Life, Veteran Affairs

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Detroit Free Press

Editorial: Ruling won't erase Michigan's anti-gay folly

Opponents of California's gay marriage ban celebrate in San Francisco over a court decision that ruled that the ban violated the civil rights of gay men and lesbians.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Michigan, Michigan Government, US News, Opinion

Christian Science Monitor

Supreme Court on TV? Senate panel advances bill requiring cameras in high court.

The Senate committee's vote comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear five and a half hours of argument in March in a challenge to President Obama's health-care reform law.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephen Breyer, US Politics, Patrick Leahy, US Senate, Democrat, Dianne Feinstein

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