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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines March 8, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, March 8, 2010.

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Shot down, but no regrets

"Almost as soon as advocate Alan Gura mentioned the "privileges or immunities" approach to applying the right to bear arms to the states, the Supreme Court justices shot it down."

 

Coming clean to get food stamps

"At least 10 states are considering bills that would require drug testing for recipients of various government benefits, including unemployment, food stamps and welfare. But one federal court ? the 6th Circuit ? declared wholesale drug testing of welfare recipients unconstitutional in 2003."

 

Shifting gears

"The government seeks to improve its dismal record in stock-options backdating cases in the upcoming trial of KB Home executive Bruce Karatz".

 

Judge refuses to delay 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' trial

"A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy will go to trial as planned on June 14, despite the Obama administration's plea for a stay pending political efforts to repeal the law that bans service by open gays and lesbians."

 

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).