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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>constitutional law | The Love Network</title><link>http://constitutional-law.love.com</link><language>en-us</language><docs>http://constitutional-law.love.com/rss.xml</docs><description>A Blog with news about constitutional law</description><copyright>AOL LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.</copyright><generator>Blogsmith | Relegence | AOL LLC.</generator><item><title>Human rights bill planned for House</title><link>http://t.love.com/309310839</link><description><![CDATA[PARLIAMENT will be notified today for constitutional amendments to create a Human Rights Commission (HRC). 


Esa'ala MP Moses Maladina said yesterday the creation of the commission would be unique, featuring quasi-judicial powers. 


Mr Maladina, who has successfully moved legislations through the House as Private Members Bill, is likely to get the 83 votes required for the Bill to pass. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:52:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Alabama Supreme Court vacates Hall's ruling on bingo; decision likely to impact current case</title><link>http://t.love.com/309308258</link><description><![CDATA[The unanimous, 9-0 decision by the court vacated a ruling by Hall that Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin should follow the local 1989 constitutional amendment legalizing charity bingo and electronic bingo rules and regulations approved by the Etowah County Commission. 
An appeal by the Etowah Baptist Association of that decision also was dismissed. 


The ruling said in the declaratory judgment sought by Entrekin there was not a "justiciable controversy," or differing positions in the case to be ruled on.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:45:00</pubDate></item><item><title>New Zealand Says 'Our Commitment to Human Rights and Our Record' Clear, as Human Rights Committee Takes Up Country's Fifth Periodic Report</title><link>http://t.love.com/309307755</link><description><![CDATA[While affirming his country's "unique but robust constitutional structure", which afforded opportunities for engagement with human rights protections across all Government institutions and among all citizens, the Minister of Justice of New Zealand, addressing a panel of United Nations rights experts today, nevertheless acknowledged several issues of ongoing concern, including the use of "tasers", the private management of prisons and the disproportionate number of Maori in the country's prison system. 


"W]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:43:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Country Reports on Human Rights Practices</title><link>http://t.love.com/309302197</link><description><![CDATA[The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress in compliance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, and section 504 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended. 
The law provides that the Secretary of State shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, "a full and complete report regarding the status of internationally re]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:17:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Judicial Standards &amp; Accountability Bill differed</title><link>http://t.love.com/309301011</link><description><![CDATA[Once bitten, twice shy. 
The Manmohan Singh government is taking a cautious approach in dealing with the higher judiciary. 
Amid differences from within, the Union Cabinet on Monday deferred the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:08:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Court to rule this month on state’s abortion notification law</title><link>http://t.love.com/309299400</link><description><![CDATA[A Cook County Circuit Court judge said Monday that he will rule March 29 whether to dismiss a lawsuit that has halted the Illinois abortion notification law. 


The 1995 law, which has been delayed in court and never enforced, would require doctors to notify a parent or guardian when a girl 17 or younger seeks an abortion. 


In November, the Illinois medical disciplinary board decided the state could begin enforcing the law. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:55:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Petition seeks to limit court's water decision to Southern Nevada...</title><link>http://t.love.com/309298798</link><description><![CDATA[A petition has been filed asking the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider its water rights decision so it affects only the Southern Nevada Water Authority and not the thousands of holders of water rights in the state. 


The petition, filed Monday on behalf of state Engineer Tracy Taylor, said the court's decision, unless limited, could impact water rights approved for "farms, mines, power plants, and municipalities have been built, upon which banks have loaned money, mortgages have been based and communities]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:52:00</pubDate></item><item><title>First Amendment Rights vs. Rights to Vote / Be a Candidate</title><link>http://t.love.com/309298645</link><description><![CDATA[After the Supreme Court declared that corporations have the same rights as individuals when it comes to funding political campaigns, the self-described progressive firm [Murray Hill Inc., a small, five-year-old Silver Spring public relations company] took what it considers the next logical step: declaring for office. 


Behind the stunt, I take it, is a substantive argument I've heard others make before — because corporations can't run for office (or, in other versions of the argument, can't vote), they sho]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:51:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Public Records Not Always Public</title><link>http://t.love.com/309297184</link><description><![CDATA[Mounting pressure from the public and media against a plan to exempt 911 calls from public records has the powerful house speaker backing down. 


"Oh, it's gotten way out of hand," House Speaker Larry Cretul (R-Ocala) said. 
"It's gotten way too noisy. So don't be surprised if we kind of slow that thing down or even not take it up this year." 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:47:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Guantanamo inmate wins defamation case</title><link>http://t.love.com/309293959</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://202.58.40.60/media/images/article/SkyNews_Image_20070128045944.jpg"><br>Former terror suspect Mamdouh Habib has won his case for defamation against a Sydney newspaper. 


The New South Wales Court of Appeal has reversed an earlier judgment made in March 2008 by Justice Peter McClellan which favoured the Daily Telegraph. 


The appeal court's ruling gives the former Guantanamo Bay inmate the right to compensation from the newspaper's publisher Nationwide News. 

The case revolved around an article published by the Telegraph in February 2005 which implied Mr Habib made false clai]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:27:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Technology Helps, Hurts Human Rights Activists, Report Says</title><link>http://t.love.com/309291609</link><description><![CDATA[Washington -- New technologies help human rights proponents get their message out, but repressive governments are using them as well to muzzle activists, according to the latest Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. 


"New technologies have proven useful both to oppressors and to those who struggle to expose the failures and the cowardice of the oppressors," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a March 11 press briefing for the release of the 2010 report. 


A major trend identified in th]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:11:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Voters next to decide on Lakewood Act</title><link>http://t.love.com/309288859</link><description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives concurred with Senate amendments to House Joint Resolution 4220, also known as the Lakewood Police Officers' Memorial Act, sending the constitutional amendment straight to the voters. 


Rep. Mike Hope, police officer and sponsor of the bill, said he looks forward to the public discussion on the proposal. 


"Now the people can decide whether the most dangerous suspects should be denied bail," said Hope, R-Lake Stevens. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:55:00</pubDate></item><item><title>State Supreme Court Debates Electronic Bingo</title><link>http://t.love.com/309288486</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://media.wkrg.com/images/scaled/media/news7/alabama-supreme-court-300x201.jpg"><br>The future of the governor's gambling task force is now in the hands of the Alabama Supreme Court. 


The court is considering arguments over whether the task force's commander, Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson, has legal authority in the post. 


A Macon County judge blocked the task force March 5 by ruling that Tyson only has authority in Mobile County. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:53:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bill changing norms for arrest introduced</title><link>http://t.love.com/309288077</link><description><![CDATA[The Government on Monday introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha seeking to amend criminal laws relating to powers of the police to make an arrest without a warrant and norms on arrest. 
The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill, introduced by Home Minister P Chidambaram, will be applicable to cognizable offences for which the maximum punishment is up to seven years. 


It will make it mandatory on the part of the police to record reasons for not arresting an accused in cases where such action was not requ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:52:00</pubDate></item><item><title>House leader pulls plug on 911 recordings ban</title><link>http://t.love.com/309287118</link><description><![CDATA[TALLAHASSEE, Fla. A bill to ban the release of recorded 911 emergency calls was sidelined Monday by its powerful legislative champion. 
The move came on the first work day of Sunshine Week, which spotlights the importance of open government. 


House Speaker Larry Cretul said that, after consulting with colleagues and media representatives, he decided to suspend efforts to push the bill through the Legislature. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Ga. Convict Who Missed Deadline Banned From Appeal</title><link>http://t.love.com/309286375</link><description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) A Georgia convict sentenced to 10 years on robbery and assault charges will not be allowed to challenge his conviction because he failed to mail in his legal documents on time. 


The Georgia Supreme Court released a 4-3 decision Monday that found Brandon Cooper could not move forward with his appeal because it was filed one day late. 


Cooper argued that the letter was properly addressed and that it was delivered to the prison mailroom on June 27 several days before the July 1 deadline. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Daphne Eviatar: Lindsey Graham's Third Strike?</title><link>http://t.love.com/309286276</link><description><![CDATA[Given Senator Lindsey Graham's military background, one would think he would push hard for the trial and conviction of all terrorists. 
After all, U.S. federal courts have successfully tried more than 195 terrorists since the terrorist attacks of September 11. 
But for the past five years, Graham has instead repeatedly obstructed the effort to try and convict the 9/11 detainees. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Hearing on Tuku's petition adjourned</title><link>http://t.love.com/309283855</link><description><![CDATA[A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned the hearing till April 24 on the petition filed by former state minister for energy Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku seeking attachment of properties of former army chief General Moeen U Ahmed before judgment. 


Judge SM Saiful Islam of the Third Joint District Judge's Court passed the order following a time petition submitted by Moeen's lawyers seeking adjournment of the hearing. 


In the petition, lawyers said their client had earlier appealed to the High Court (HC) challengin]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:41:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Adoption stalls showbiz ambitions</title><link>http://t.love.com/309283053</link><description><![CDATA[Teh Chang Ping dreams of becoming a film director one day and the avid anime costume play fan has even been featured in The Star. 

His dreams, however, are on hold following the National Registration Department's (NRD) refusal to issue him a MyKad despite a birth certificate and a court order. 


The 19-year-old, who was given up for adoption in Kuala Lumpur a month after his birth, is unable to get his MyKad as the state NRD wants his parents to produce the adoption certificate, needed for the application]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:38:00</pubDate></item><item><title>OCEANSIDE: Charter measure opposition launches Web site</title><link>http://t.love.com/309279604</link><description><![CDATA[An Oceanside citizens group that opposes a proposed city charter on the June 8 election ballot has created a Web site to explain their objections to the measure. 


The site ---- www.citizensagainstcharter.com ---- "explores the reasons why this charger is not needed in Oceanside and why this charter is not good for our city," said Citizens Against Charter co-chair Dixie Bales said in a news release Monday. 


Oceanside is a general law city bound by state law on a wide range of matters, from how it awards ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:16:00</pubDate></item><item><title>AG sees promising change toward open government</title><link>http://t.love.com/309278911</link><description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Monday to pursue a government-wide strategy to open greater amounts of information to the public. 


In the past year, "we've seen something truly promising: an obvious and encouraging change in our government's attitude toward information," Holder told Justice Department employees in a speech. 
"We must keep up this work." 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:13:00</pubDate></item><item><title>N.Korea Human Rights Bill Clears National Assembly Hurdle</title><link>http://t.love.com/309274882</link><description><![CDATA[The National Assembly's Unification, Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee passed a bill Thursday authorizing the creation of a body to monitor North Korea's human rights situation and support activists in the South. 


South Korea is the third country to pass a bill aimed at improving North Korea's human rights situation. 
The U.S. enacted a similar bill in 2004, and Japan followed suit in 2006. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:07:00</pubDate></item><item><title>CPM member petition adjourned</title><link>http://t.love.com/309269097</link><description><![CDATA[The Madras high court has adjourned to March 29, further hearing of the petition filed by A Lazer, a state executive committee member of CPI (M), seeking to substitute himself as the petitioner in place of the deceased CPI (M) candidate P Mohan, challenging the election of Union minister M K Alagiri from the Madurai parliamentary constituency during the May 13 Lok Sabha polls. 
When the petition came up for hearing before Justice V. Dhanapalan, it was brought to the notice of the court that the other candid]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Ga. Court Reinstates Rape Convictions For Man</title><link>http://t.love.com/309268436</link><description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) Georgia's top court has reinstated rape convictions of a man accused of making women don pantyhose with a hole and then raping them. 


The court's unanimous ruling Monday reverses a decision by the Georgia Court of Appeals that had thrown out the convictions against Ali Nejad, who authorities dubbed the "Pantyhose Rapist." 


Nejad was convicted in 2005 or raping two women in separate assaults and he was suspected in several others. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>“Slaughter Solution” Is Unprecedented According To GOP. Except They Used It A Lot.</title><link>http://t.love.com/309267841</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.oliverwillis.com/img/owface-snow.jpg"><br>Media conservatives have falsely characterized a legislative proposal reportedly being considered to finalize health care reform in the House as unprecedented, undemocratic, and unconstitutional. 
But the rule in question is an accepted part of House procedure, and Congress repeatedly used the rule under GOP leadership, according to a former GOP staff director of the House Rules Committee. 


It's like they're hypocrites who don't think people will check them when they make these statements. 

 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:47:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Doyle signs public defender access bill</title><link>http://t.love.com/309266871</link><description><![CDATA[Gov. Jim Doyle has signed into law a bill that will make it easier for poor people to be represented by public defenders. 


The measure signed by Doyle on Monday updates income guidelines to get public defender representation for the first time since 1987. 


Not updating the income guidelines has resulted in many applicants who earn below the federal poverty level not qualifying for public defender representation. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:46:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Would the Line-Item Veto Ruling Invalidate the Slaughter Rule? -- By: Andy McCarthy</title><link>http://t.love.com/309266657</link><description><![CDATA[If one paragraph of that text had been omitted at any one of those three stages, Public Law 105—33 would not have been validly enacted. [Emphasis added] If the Line Item Veto Act were valid, it would authorize the President to create a different law - one whose text was not voted on by either House of Congress or presented to the President for signature. 


Something that might be known as 'Public Law 105—33 as modified by the President' may or may not be desirable, but it is surely not a document that may ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:46:00</pubDate></item><item><title>G4C Constitution Hinges Around “Don’t be a Dick”</title><link>http://t.love.com/309255581</link><description><![CDATA[As time winds down before Australia's March 20th elections, Gamers4Croydon continues to up its presence. 


The group issued a call to arms announcement via its Steam Community presence , in which it outlines its policies, candidates and how to vote for the group's candidates. 
G4C urged people to forward the posting to as many of their friends and acquaintances as possible. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:55:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginia's New Attorney General Has Said Some Crazy Stuff</title><link>http://t.love.com/309252498</link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you may think about brusque D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles, he's got nothing on Virginia's freshly sworn-in Ken Cuccinelli, who's getting attacked from all sides today for making some pretty bizarre remarks straight out of the Tea Party handbook. 
To start, video has surfaced in which Cuccinelli describes how a possible legal challenge to President Barack Obama's citizenship "doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility." 
And now there's this weird thing , an apparent campaign appearance with]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>David O. Stewart: No Way To Treat a Judge</title><link>http://t.love.com/309252100</link><description><![CDATA[Not everything in the Constitution works as it should. 
Federal District Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., of New Orleans is learning, and the Senate will soon be reminded, that the removal of lower court judges by impeachment fails all the participants in the process. 


The House of Representatives unanimously adopted four impeachment articles against Porteous last Thursday . ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Would Supreme Court rule unconstitutional law passed with Slaughter Solution?</title><link>http://t.love.com/309238513</link><description><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress might want to re-read the 1998 Supreme Court decision Clinton v. 
City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 before moving forward with the Slaughter Solution to pass President Obama's health care reform bill. 
That decision is chiefly remembered today for holding a federal version of the line-item veto as unconstitutional. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:53:00</pubDate></item><item><title>NGOs file intervention application in high court</title><link>http://t.love.com/309237392</link><description><![CDATA[Two women's organisations moved the Bombay High Court on Monday opposing a petition that said legal restraint on child marriage was not applicable to Muslims. 


NGOs Awaz-e-Niswan and Forum Against the Oppression of Women filed an intervention application against the petition filed by Aurangabad resident Zakia Begum challenging provisions of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. 


In December 2009, the Ghatkopar police, following a complaint, rescued Begum's 15-year-old daughter hours before her we]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>High court tells woman to apply for US citizenship</title><link>http://t.love.com/309237337</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight-year-old Jennifer Edgell Haynes, who was deported from the United States in 2008 although she was formally adopted by an American family in 1992, may have to apply for American citizenship if she wants to go back. 


Mumbai-born Haynes went to America in 1989 at the age of eight after the Hancox family adopted her. 
In 1992, she moved to the home of the Edgells because she could not adjust with the Hancoxs. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Further Proof that the MMJ ordinances are unconstitutional</title><link>http://t.love.com/309236899</link><description><![CDATA[With the Kelley Case now over (affirming the constitutionality of the MMP, constitutionality of patient collectives, state and local guidelines as a SAFE HARBOR from arrest for patients in the program, and striking down quantity limits on patients) and with our own County D.A. Jerry Benito recognizing this and dismissing charges on those qualified individuals like Mr. James Hall, I believe it is time now for the Redding Town Council (and other entities like them) to reconsider their measures against legit p]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Actions Taken by the Georgia State Licensing Board for ... - Weekly</title><link>http://t.love.com/309235295</link><description><![CDATA[Macon, Ga. The Georgia State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors held its meeting via conference call on Thursday, March 11, 2010. 


The Board voted to amend the Limited Service Specialty Contractors list to include Low-Income Weatherization and Energy Efficiency. 


The Board voted to post the following amended rules: 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>On Justice Stevens and a Changing High Court</title><link>http://t.love.com/309233799</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0115720320d7970b-500wi"><br>The New Yorker 's Jeffrey Toobin explores the tenure Justice John Paul Stevens , the Supreme Court's "fourth-longest serving" justice in an article that contemplates a high court "without its liberal leader."  

In an interview with Toobin, Justice Stevens reflects on his time on the bench, saying there are "dozens" of cases he is unhappy with. 
The justice signaled out Citizens United v. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:46:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Guard Your Liberties!</title><link>http://t.love.com/309233003</link><description><![CDATA[A Home Bible Study Group called the Oasis of Truth Church has been ordered by the city of Gilbert, Arizona to stop having group Bible studies in their homes. 
Town zoning codes state that there shall be no religious meetings of any size in private homes. 
The rules prohibit pot-lucks or leadership meetings. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:45:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Kansas House adopts resolution concerning states' rights</title><link>http://t.love.com/309231385</link><description><![CDATA[The Kansas House has adopted a resolution decrying what it describes as the federal government's violations of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 


The vote Monday was 109-11. 


The 10th Amendment says powers not specifically given to the federal government are reserved for the states. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:41:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Fuller to appeal districting ruling</title><link>http://t.love.com/309228823</link><description><![CDATA[A Columbia attorney running for state Senate will appeal a court decision that denied her petition claiming one of her opponents is violating district-residency rules. 


Candidate Heidi Fuller, 46, of Columbia, filed the petition in Sacramento County Superior Court, asking the court to uphold and enforce a section of the California Constitution that says a person is ineligible to represent a legislative district unless the person has been a resident of the district for one year. 


The court denied the pet]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:37:00</pubDate></item><item><title>House leader pulls plug on 911 recordings ban</title><link>http://t.love.com/309224653</link><description><![CDATA[House Speaker Larry Cretul said that, after consulting with colleagues and media representatives, he decided to suspend efforts to push the bill through the Legislature. 
The measure would have outlawed the timely release of recorded 911 calls, now open to the public under Florida's Government in the Sunshine laws. 


"He reached the conclusion that it's time to take a breather on this issue," said Jill Chamberlain, Cretul's press secretary. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:22:00</pubDate></item></channel></rss>