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| Judge’s Facebook friendship didn’t indicate bias, state appellate court rules | When are friends not really friends? Perhaps on Facebook, the Fifth District of Texas Court of Appeals recently ruled, in a matter involving a judge’s social media contacts and perceived biases. The appeal was brought by William Scott Youkers, who pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend and later had a… |
| Do LinkedIn endorsements violate legal ethics? | Legal blogger Robert Ambrogi received an email alert this morning notifying him that an Internet acquaintance he’s never met or spoken to had endorsed his litigation skills on LinkedIn. Ambrogi says that is not uncommon for connections with no firsthand knowledge of his skills to endorse him on LinkedIn, a… |
Google legal news
| | Joe Biden Sees 'No Legal Reason' Why We Can't Tax Violent Video Games - Forbes | |
| Guantanamo Bay: Inside a Legal Nightmare - RollingStone.com | 
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Guantanamo Bay: Inside a Legal NightmareRollingStone.comAs the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay enters its fourth month and pressure to close the prison mounts, it's easy to forget that Guantanamo is not only a detention facility but also the site of a unique legal experiment that has no direct precedent in ... |
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Jurist
| | New Bolivia law allows president to run for third term | [JURIST] Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera signed into law Tuesday a constitutional amendment that will allow President Evo Morales [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to run for a third term. The Bolivian Constitution [text, in Spanish] only allows a president to serve two terms. However, last month the Bolivian Constitutional Tribunal ruled [JURIST report] that the two consecutive term limit should not be applied retroactively, and because the country's constitution was amended [JURIST report] after Morales began his term,... |
| Guatemala court voids ex-dictator Rios Montt's genocide conviction | [JURIST] The Guatemala Constitutional Court [official website, in Spanish] on Tuesday overturned the genocide conviction of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt [JURIST news archive] and ordered the trial to resume from the point that it was stopped on April 19. Earlier this month Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide, torture and rape of 1,771 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. The ex-dictator was sentenced [JURIST report] by a three-judge panel headed by Judge Jasmine Barrios to 80 years... |
Google law
| | Vermont about to become 4th state with aid-in-dying law - CBS News | |
| Firms Brace for New European Data Privacy Law - New York Times | |
Firms Brace for New European Data Privacy LawNew York TimesOn Monday, their European counterparts showed up in force at a conference in Berlin to discuss the potential law, which is expected to come to a vote sometime next year. Representatives from European Aeronautics Defense & Space, BMW, Daimler and ...and more » |
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