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The Battle Over Unemployment Benefits and Deficit Spending
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court and Congress writer – July 28, 2010
After weeks of uncertainty and a highly publicized fight in the Senate, President Obama signed an emergency six-month extension of unemployment benefits into law last Thursday. The law extends unemployment insurance benefits for about 2.5 million unemployed individuals since the last [...]
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Washington DC Officers Win Civil Rights Suit
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
By Delores Amorelli, staff writer of SEOLawFirm.com’s Newsroom Column ‘In Good Practice’ – July 20, 2010
A jury in the District of Columbia has awarded five black city police officers a total of $900,000. The federal jury’s recent verdict confirmed that the officers in question were retaliated against after filing racial discrimination complaints with [...]
Posted in In Good Practice, SEOLawFirm.com Legal Newsroom | Tags: civil rights, dc, police, police officers, police safety, washington dc | No Comments »
Michael Steele’s War Gaffe
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
By Gode Davis, political staff columnist – July 13, 2010
Just prior to the Independence Day weekend, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was lambasted by the Conservative wing of the Republican Party for questioning the logic of the American troop presence in Afghanistan. If there is one thing that Conservative Republicans can agree on, it’s [...]
Posted in Politics, SEOLawFirm.com Legal Newsroom | Tags: Afghanistan, Al qaeda, Bush Adminstration, CIA, CNN, democrats, Dick Cheney, Fareed Zakaria, Gallup, George Bush, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Liz Cheney, Michael Steele, Obama, republican, Republican National Committee, Rush Limbaugh, The Weekly Standard, USA TOday, William Kristol | No Comments »
Employers May Be Spying on Staff Behavior at Home
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – July 8, 2010
Most people believe they are safe at home posting and tweeting about the “idiot” they have for a boss or about the latest company gossip because they are safe to do it from home. This may not be the case. Employees may have no privacy [...]
Posted in SEOLawFirm.com Legal Newsroom, Technology Cases | Tags: employee privacy, employee rights, employer rights, facebook, freedom of speech, linked in, privacy, slander, social network, social sentry | 1 Comment »
The Church, Politics, and the IRS
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
By Jason Bland, guest political columnist – June 29, 2010
Jesus and his disciples traveled unto the outskirts of Jerusalem where they would rest for the night before heading into the city. When they were settled, Jesus told two of his disciples to go into the city and procure an ass and a colt, which [...]
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Senate Democrats Wrestle over Climate Change Cap and Trade
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court writer – June 23, 2010
President Obama hopes to reinvigorate the push for comprehensive climate change legislation in a meeting with Senate lawmakers today.
Climate change legislation has succumbed to the familiar fate of many recent Democratic measures: a perceived failure to be able to hit the 60-vote threshold needed [...]
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Immigration Law in Arizona Draws Lawsuit from School District
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
By Delores Amorelli, staff writer of SEOLawFirm.com’s Newsroom Column ‘In Good Practice’ – June 15, 2010
Last week, board members of the Sunnyside Unified School District voted to join in civil litigation opposing Arizona’s controversial new immigration law SB1070. This recently adopted law has sparked debate across the nation, with critics branding the law [...]
Posted in In Good Practice, SEOLawFirm.com Legal Newsroom | Tags: arizona immigration, border patrol, civil litigation, immigration law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, sb1070, sunnyside unified school district | 2 Comments »
Genocidal Intricacies
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
By Gode Davis, political staff columnist – June 8, 2010
The most horrific crime of genocide existed long before the word was invented. This very specific term, a reference to violent crimes committed against a group of people with the malevolent intent of destroying the very existence of that group, was coined in 1944 by a [...]
Posted in Politics, SEOLawFirm.com Legal Newsroom | Tags: genocide, hitler, Mehmed Talaat, nazi, Poland, rwanda, Soviet, Turkey, turkish | 3 Comments »
Stubborn Corporations Clash as Nokia Sues Apple
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – June 2, 2010
In what appears to be an escalating war of who paid what to whom, or who didn’t pay what to whom, some believe Apple is coming out looking a tad inferior for wear in the lawsuit Nokia launched against it for patent infringement. What’s [...]
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Supreme Court to Hear Texas Death Row DNA Case
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court writer – May 25, 2010
The Supreme Court will consider whether death row inmates can use a civil rights law to require the State to provide access to post-conviction DNA evidence. The case will determine whether convicted inmates have a federal right to demand access to DNA testing that [...]
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