Today’s Supreme Court decision has once again left Texas’ legislative future up in the air.
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Interim Texas Redistricting Maps Trashed by Supreme Court
Rick Perry’s lawsuit against the state of Virginia has grown in recent days, adding Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum as plaintiffs. The group of Republican presidential candidates has been left off the state’s primary ballot — a move they say violates the First Amendment.
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Rick Perry Gets Court Hearing on Virginia Primary Ballot
Nelson Mandela’s daughter plans to appeal a costly court ruling over plans for a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight that never happened. The ruling follows a failed attempt by Mandela’s daughter to organize a fight between the world’s top two boxers, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, gossip website TMZ.com reports. The bout was……
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Pacquiao-Mayweather Fight Fails, Mandela’s Daughter Owes $7.5M
It’s time for congressional redistricting 2011, and things are starting to get a little contentious. Arizona’s Governor fired the head of the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission, and the Colorado Supreme Court flat out rejected the state’s new legislative maps. And then there’s Texas, where the redistricting battle is being fought……
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Redistricting Woes Continue to Spread
UC Davis has placed its police chief and two police officers on administrative leave after campus police pepper-sprayed student demonstrators at an Occupy Davis protest last week. Two pepper-sprayed protesters were taken to the hospital and eleven others were treated on site, The Los Angeles Times reports. Video of the……
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UC Davis Pepper Spray Victims May Sue Police
A man has sued MTV, claiming in a new Jersey Shore lawsuit that the network stole the show idea from him.
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Man Sues MTV, Says They Stole ‘Jersey Shore’ Idea
The NAACP, along with 11 residents, have filed a federal voting rights lawsuit against Fayette County, Georgia, alleging that the way in which it conducts its elections is disenfranchising black voters. As evidence, the plaintiffs point to the fact that,… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com
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Black Voters File Lawsuit against Fayette County, GA
Americans are not fond of laws that tell us we “have to” do something. Take for instance the still constant fight over helmet laws. In this election season, could it be time to consider one of the biggest “have to”..
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What About Mandatory Voting?
What’s wrong with a public high school loading a van full of students during school hours, showing them sample ballots that only include democrats and then taking them to vote? Nothing, according to the Cincinnati Public Schools system. The school..
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Cincinnati Public Schools in Voter Bribery Scandal
Shoppers at the Westfield Roseville Galleria in California were in for quite a surprise Thursday after a man set fire to a mall store.
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Man Sets Fire to Calif. Mall Store, Forces Evacuation
