Religion & Law

VA Bills Will Further Limit Funding for Abortions for Medicaid Recipients and Allow Discrimination by Adoption Agencies
Reuters: Virginia lawmakers pass abortion, adoption bills, by Matthew A. Ward: (Reuters) - Virginia would halt taxpayer-funded abortions for low-income women in cases where the fetus is severely physically deformed or mentally deficient under Republican-backed legislation passed Friday by state...

Wired.com: "DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Challenge to Warrantless Eavesdropping"
Wired.com: Threat Level: DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Challenge to Warrantless Eavesdropping by David Kravets: The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans? communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008...

Rexamining the Constitutionality of Bans on Federally Funded Abortions
The Huffington Post: Is the Ban on Federally Funded Abortions Constitutional?, by Judge H. Lee Sarokin: Since the Supreme Court appears receptive to rejecting precedent in letting corporations overwhelm our elective system, possibly they should re-examine the constitutionality of the...

Sign the U.S. Petition to Support Public Access to Publicly Funded Scientific Research
This week, open access advocates in the United States and around the world are rallying around a petition that urges public access to publicly funded research. The petition is now live on Whitehouse...

Pawlenty's Take on Punishing Women and Their Doctors for Illegal Abortions
The Iowa Independent: Pawlenty: No criminal penalty for abortion, state spokesman later clarifies Pawlenty's initial assessment, by Lynda Waddington: When asked by a reporter at an Iowa stop what the penalty should be for women who have abortions and doctors...

Iowa District Judge Pratt Dismisses Challenge to Iowa Judicial Selection
On November 2, 2010, three Iowa Supreme Court justices stood for retention and were not retained by the voters of Iowa. This result is widely assumed to be attributable to the campaign against the judges based upon the Iowa Supreme...

The Paulson Toxic Mortgage Debt Security Act: The Biggest Government Bailout of All Time
Legislative Proprosal for Treasury Authority to Purchase Mortgage-related Assets

Qui Tam Whistleblower - Government Fraud - Qui Tam Lawsuit
Qui Tam Whistleblower alleging fraud against the government reported by an individual acting as a government whistleblower.

Disabilities Groups Settle with Caltrans for $1.1 Billion
Disabilities Groups Settle with Caltrans for $1.1 Billion

Health Plan Boycott
Connecticut chiropractic groups to pay $87,000 fine in civil suit.

Canadian Government
seeks new law enabling them to search your laptop

Federal Government
alleging discrimination against black farmers

US Government
alleging land surveyors should not be allowed on private property to build a US Mexican border wall.