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Alabama immigration law faces legal challenge: Can it survive?
Federal lawsuits have been filed against five states that have passed tough anti-illegal-immigration bills. Here is the legal state of play for all five state laws:
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Health care law's future: four scenarios
One year ago, President Barack Obama signed a sweeping health-care law to fulfill a long-standing Democratic pledge to ensure health-care coverage for all Americans.
Passage of the law was a major legislative victory for Obama and helped change the political landscape, but not always in the way Democrats had hoped. Republicans strongly opposed the law and successfully worked public skepticism about it into sweeping election victories in November.
Here's a look at the uncertain future of the health care law:
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Jared Lee Loughner: what is known about Tucson, Arizona, shooting suspect
Jared Lee Loughner is refusing to tell investigators anything about a motive for the Tucson, Arizona, shooting, but he appears to be a familiar character in American life: a disturbed outsider with a gun.
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Arizona shooting suspect charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Giffords
Federal authorities also charged Jared Lee Loughner, the Arizona shooting suspect, with two counts of murder. President Obama calls for a moment of silence Monday at 11 a.m. EST.
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Chapter & Verse
Sarah Palin and her publisher win Round 1 of "fair use" disputeIt's become common practice for the press to excerpt from embargoed books – but is it legal?
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Editorial Board Blog
Even Attorney General Eric Holder answers the call of jury dutyOn Monday, this writer showed up for jury duty, and so did US Attorney General Eric Holder. In cities such as Washington, where many people never respond to a jury summons, celebrities and the powerful can set a good example.
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The Monitor's View: Obama and gene ownership: Who has a right to nature's DNA?
The Justice Department reversed US policy last week about proprietary rights to existing genes. And a new global pact claims a nation can profit from others' use of genes taken from that country. Aren't nature's genetic codes universal enough not to be owned?
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Elizabeth Smart kidnapping trial begins, suspect kicked out of court
Elizabeth Smart, now 22, was 14 when she was kidnapped at knifepoint from her home on June 5, 2002. She was recovered nine months later — in March 2003 — after a motorist spotted her walking the streets of a Salt Lake City suburb with Mitchell and his now-estranged wife, Wanda Eileen Barzee.
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Toyota lawsuit: Did automaker buy up cars to hide defects?
Toyota lawsuit charges the automaker with buying up defective cars in exchange for confidentiality agreements. Toyota denies the allegations.
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LimeWire shut down axes music-sharing service
Parts of LimeWire shut down after court order. But the LimeWire download store remains.
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End of 'don't ask don't tell' would bring US military in line with NATO allies
A federal judge's ruling suspending DADT and allowing gays to openly serve brings the US military – at least temporarily – in line with all of the NATO militaries fighting alongside the US in Afghanistan.
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Pentagon must stop 'don't ask, don't tell,' federal judge rules
Judge Virginia Phillips on Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to stop enforcing its 'don't ask, don't tell' ban on openly gay service members. Though experts say the ruling would likely be overturned on appeal, it is an important moment for the gay-rights movement.
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Opinion: Health-care reform: Why I'm suing to get back my freedom
A small-business owner and former Iraq war combat medic explains why he's challenging the new health-care law's requirement that everyone buy insurance.
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Terrorism & Security
Pakistani Taliban designated a terrorist group by USListing the Pakistani Taliban as a terrorist group lets the US expand its campaign against the organization, which said it trained the attempted Times Square bomber and has vowed more attacks in the US.
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Rod Blagojevich retrial: Can prosecutors succeed with a simpler case?
Rod Blagojevich retrial will likely be a condensed version of the original case and focus on charges related to allegations that he attempted to sell President Obama's Senate seat.
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Opinion: Ultimate battle for gay marriage supporters: their fellow Americans
Supporters of gay marriage must recognize that the American people themselves, not the Supreme Court, are the ultimate arbiters of law. That’s why their most important work is in the court of public opinion.
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Proposition 8: Gay marriage ruling appeal filed
Proposition 8 supporters filed an appeal of a federal judge's ruling striking down the voter-approved law to ban gay marriage.
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The Adam Smith Institute Blog
Why Arizona’s anti-immigration law will hurt the state's economyIf SB1070 passes, the support immigrants provide to the local economy will be lost, causing falling productivity. The cost to ensure correct identification for every search or arrest will be also huge.
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The Monitor's View: Next steps for the Arizona immigration law after court's preliminary decision
The federal court decision on the Arizona immigration law can be seen as a roadmap for a political compromise.
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Immigration law sponsor in Arizona pleased to bring attention to the issue
Immigration law in Arizona is still undergoing the first of many judicial tests. State senator Russell Pearce, who drafted the controversial law, is glad there is a national conversation going on over the issue of illegal immigration.
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Offshore drilling moratorium: good for the Gulf, bad for the economy?
The federal government enacted a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling in deep waters in the wake of the Gulf oil spill. Depending on who you ask, it is either an environmental necessity or an economic disaster.
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Zachary Chesser and Paul Rockwood: latest US citizens linked to al-Awlaki
Zachary Chesser and Paul Rockwood are two American Muslims charged with plotting to commit acts of violent jihad. Both had alleged connections with Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric in Yemen who may have motivated November's Fort Hood rampage.
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Tylenol recall prompts federal lawsuit for fraud and racketeering
Tylenol recall: Johnson & Johnson has been sued in federal court by consumers in a class-action suit that alleges that the company has not offered consumers an opportunity to recover their costs.
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Obama administration walks tricky political line on gay marriage ban
President Obama has pledged to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from recognizing gay marriage. But his Justice Department is defending the law’s constitutionality in court.
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Fruit Roll-Ups not nutritious? Who could have guessed?
Fruit Roll-Ups lawsuit alleges that nutrition information is misleading to consumers.
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Opinion: What happens when Google thinks for you?
The Google Books Settlement marks an end of self-directed inquiry and the beginning of self-referred intelligence, where our thoughts become just artifacts of Googlified experience.
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