... make this ground for jurisdiction explicit and to define its bounds. Until the law changes, however, advocates would do well to think about how this doctrine can help their clients. In practice, knowing that the ... Supreme Court does not consider itself bound by the Fifth Circuit’s pronouncements of federal law, it might think that it alone should make that choice for the Texas state courts. ...

... Bluffton, South Carolina Answer: No, I don’t think there is any federal law – or any state law, for that matter – that says that you have a right to send out resumes while ... ” employment relation, either you or your employer can end the relation for any reason that does not violate the law. As noted above, an employer would be “within” the law ...

... war heroes?   At issue is a 3-year-old federal law called the Stolen Valor Act that ... his stolen glory. Attorneys in Colorado and California are challenging the law on behalf of two men who have been charged with the violating ... law, saying the First Amendment protects almost all speech that doesn’t hurt someone else. Neither man has been accused by prosecutors of seeking financial ...

Fort Lauderdale Partner and Chair of Arnstein & Lehr’s Religious Land Use Practice Group, Franklin Zemel, will speak Friday at the Ninth Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium Local Government Liability Under Federal Law:  Regulating the Sacred and the Profane.  The annual Symposium explores the potential liability of local government under federal constitutional and statutory law.   

... as a pimp to target the community-organizing group Acorn and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four men arrested and accused of trying to tamper with phones at Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office here.A federal law-enforcement official said one of the suspects was picked up in a car a couple of blocks away with a listening device that could pick up transmission. ...

A check of local banks that provided information to the Wisconsin State Journal found a number of modest fee changes that some customers will face because of a change in federal law related to overdraft fees. Mike Petta, manager of the Verona branch of Capitol Bank, said he thinks smaller banks are trying to hold the line on fees. Read the article.

House lawmakers just voted to repeal the 17-year-old law limiting Virginians to a single gun purchase a month. The law, passed in 1993 under then Gov. Doug Wilder, has long been upheld a the state's signature gun control restriction. But on Tuesday, House lawmakers voted 61 to 37 to repeal the ...

... destroy any such species on any other area in knowing violation of any law or regulation of any state or in the course of any violation of a state criminal ... land for the protection of habitats of these species and directs federal agencies to ensure that their activities or those authorized or funded ... U. S. Department of the Interior, as enumerated in the Code of Federal Regulations 50 CFR 17.11 ...

... Los Angeles Times reports on the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act ... Jan. 1. "Passed as part of the federal stimulus package, the act requires that insurers ... required to cover mental health care at all. The new law affects 113 million Americans whose states ... parity provisions in place. California has followed a mental health parity law since 2000 and so will not be affected." ...

... ; Presumption Applicable for Causal Connection Delaware law imposes on the defendant the burden to show that there was no causal connection ... s action.” See footnote 16. Under Delaware law, there are two types of presumptions. First, “conclusive presumptions& ... footnote 19, which notes that Delaware law differs from the Federal Rules of Evidence which require only that the opposing ...

... techniques after the White House had settled on them. Section 2340A of the federal criminal code makes it an offense to torture or to conspire ... prosecuted. And prosecutors should give him what he wants. Whether or not Cheney wants to be prosecuted, he should be tried for his violation of the law. If the actions he described on television are allowed to go unpunished there is no reason for any ...

... legislator from Bozeman, has been notified by the Department of Labor that he is violating Federal Law. It appears that he could face criminal prosecution if he continues to defy multiple cease and desist orders. Koopman&# ... answering job offers on the state jobs website. That is a federal crime. There will be more to come on this. I'll keep you posted. Koopman has in recent times ...

Metropolitan Transportation Planning "Federal law requires state and local governments to designate a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) in each urbanized area with a ... of transportation (DOTs) in the planning and selecting (“programming”) of projects using federal surface transportation funds. Moreover, it can be argued that at the metropolitan level MPOs are ...

... their accounts to pay for the purchase. The lawsuit was filed in federal court on behalf of Jessica Duval, of Goffstown, ... lawsuit alleges that these charges violate federal and state law, as well as the contractual relationship the bank has with its customers. ... insufficient disclosures about such overdraft fees. "While the federal government has begun to regulate overdraft fees, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican senators sent President Obama a letter criticizing his decision to try Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in a civilian court. They said it was "a missed opportunity to collect timely intelligence" from Abdulmutallab, arrested for trying to blow up a plane as it approached Detroit. They think we should try Abdulmutallab in a military commission, as set up by ...