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2 hrs ago | WCNC-TV Charlotte

Death row inmate's case struck down old state death penalty

Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. by STUART WATSON / NewsChannel 36 E-mail Stuart: SWatson@WCNC.com Posted on November 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM RALEIGH, N.C. -- When the North Carolina courts ordered a former death row inmate to be released, many Carolinians wanted to know one thing: "How can this happen?" How can an ...

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Related Topix: Prison, Death Penalty, North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, Raleigh Metro

6 hrs ago | The Wilton Bulletin

Blumenthal files petition with U.S. Supreme Court challenging FAA redesign plan

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a formal petition on Monday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on whether an appeals court wrongly upheld new Federal Aviation Administration flight plans.

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Related Topix: US News, Federal Aviation Administration, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Fri Nov 20, 2009

McClatchy DC

Algerian is 31st Guantanamo detainee ordered freed

A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantanamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

Canadian Business Magazine

Crime: Shooting down the honesty policy

But is dishonesty really a crime? By Matthew McClearn One wonders how Conrad Black and Jeffrey Skilling would fare as cellmates.

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Related Topix: Prison, Energy, US News

Journal Messenger

Elliott executed in 2001 slayings of Woodbridge couple

Larry "Bill" Elliott died in Virginia's electric chair Tuesday night, nearly nine years after the murders that landed him on death row.

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Birmingham News Online

U.S. Supreme Court will rule on death penalty for Billy Joe Magwood...

This is an undated family photo of former Coffee County Sheriff C.F. "Neil" Grantham holding his grandson Sean.

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Related Topix: US News, Death Penalty, Coffee County, AL, Elba, AL, Prison

The Philadelphia Tribune

Dred Scott plaque unveiled

More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque Tuesday to educate visitors about the opinion and the local man who wrote it - and to quell a local controversy.

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Related Topix: US News, Washington Metro

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Harrop: New London the loser in battle over eminent domain

Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate center standing next to a street grid emptied of nearly all its buildings.

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Related Topix: New London Metro, New London, CT, US News, Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Opinion

MSNBC

He didn't pull the trigger but faces death

Gates: Pentagon to review internal policies A A Nov. 19: Defense Secretary Robert Gates announces a DOD review of procedures and policies in an effort to prevent incidents such as the shootings at Fort Hood from happening again.

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Related Topix: Rick Perry, US Governors, Prison, Violent Crime, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News

KLTV Tyler

Runners-up to Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year

The runners-up to Merriam-Webster's 2009 Word of the Year , with definitions from the publisher's collegiate dictionary and, when applicable, the news event or story that generated the interest in the word: - Emaciated : To cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Mark Sanford, US Governors

Charleston Daily Mail

Judicial report takes gradual approach to reform

The commission Gov. Joe Manchin tasked with reforming West Virginia's judicial system came to a series of politically savvy suggestions in their report released this week.

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El Paso Times

Man executed for abduction-slaying of Texas woman

This photo made Nov. 4, 2009, shows death row inmate Danielle Simpson. Simpson volunteered for execution and in recent weeks changed his mind and hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would spare him from a trip to the Texas death chamber Wednesday, Nov.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Abilene Reporter-News

George Will: Fighting a coercion clause

In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea.

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Related Topix: Arizona, Arizona Government, Medicaid, Health

WILX-TV Lansing

Affirmative Action Lawsuit

Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring will be put to the test in a federal appeals court three years after voters had their say.

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Related Topix: US News, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Telecom, Cincinnati Bell, Activism

Miami Herald

Black firefighters object to white promotions

A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Charleston Daily Mail

DC ends neighborhood checkpoints, appeal of ruling

The District of Columbia has decided not to appeal a court ruling that found its police checkpoints in a high-crime neighborhood were unconstitutional.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Washington, DC, US News

NewsCenter 25

Gay couples blast federal Defense of Marriage Act

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. Read more: National , Politics , Defense of Marriage Act , U.S. Supreme Court , Congress , Marriage , Gay , Same Sex Marriage , DOMA BOSTON a ' Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn't recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a ...

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WLS

Obama Justice Department opposes Siegelman appeal before Supreme Court

The Obama administration is opposing former Gov. Don Siegelman's appeal of his felony corruption conviction before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that federal prosecutors presented enough evidence to prove bribery.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Boston Globe

Justice Scalia speaks about Constitution in Ohio

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has said in a speech at Ohio State University the Constitution is best treated as an original document within the context of its historical creation, not as a text subject to modern reinterpretation.

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Related Topix: US News, Ohio State University

5NEWSonline.com

Md. city erects Dred Scott decision plaque to quell rancor over Supreme Court justice's statue

More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city has erected a plaque to educate visitors about the decision and the local man who wrote it.

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