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Friday, January 30, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
#LAW Shariah in American #Courts @CenterforSecurityPolicy
SHARIAH IN AMERICA COURTS 2.0: CENTER’S NEW CIVILIZATION JIHAD READERSERIES STARTS WITH THE PENETRATION OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM
(Washington, D.C.): Center for Security Policy Press today launched a collection of monographs called the Civilization Jihad Reader Series with the publication of an update to an earlier and highly influential study concerning the insinuation of Islam’s supremacist shariah legal code into the U.S. judiciary. Entitled Shariah in American Courts: The Expanding Incursion of Islamic Law in the U.S. Legal System, this inaugural booklet documents 146 cases in 32 states in which a party to litigation attempted to have the matter resolved by applying shariah, rather than the statutes of the state in question.
The Center first raised an alarm about the penetration of American jurisprudence by one of the most anti-constitutional of such foreign legal codes with its 2011 report, Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases. That study examined a sample of fifty cases and found that in twenty-seven of them, in twenty-three different states, the courts in question allowed the use of shariah, generally to the detriment of women and/or children whose rights under our Constitution were infringed.
With the bedrock of the American Republic being the U.S. Constitution and individual state constitutions derived therefrom, these analyses provide insights into how our own legal system can be – and is being – used as a mechanism to anchor and expand in this country shariah, an ideology wholly at odds with such documents and, more generally, irreconcilable with freedom and democracy.
Most Americans take the rule of law and our constitutional rights for granted. Yet, Shariah in American Courts is a reminder of how even institutions like our judiciary can be influenced – and potentially subverted – by foreign legal codes and practices, to the grave detriment of our nation and liberties.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
It takes an entire law firm using #socialmedia to distribute content
By Kevin O'Keefe
If a law firm wants to succeed in generating readership of their thought leadership pieces, whether blog posts, articles, or whitepapers, going forward, the firm best have everyone at the law firm using social media.
Over one half of the users of Twitter and Facebook get news and information from these social networks. (Pew Research Journalism Project). The numbers are only increasing.
Look at newspapers such as The New York Times. Great journalism, but the journalism is not reaching readers like it used to. Why? Social media distribution of news.
At one time, not that long ago, trucks pulled up behind the Times in Manhattan and other publishing centers around the country to pick up the papers for eventual distribution to homes and businesses.
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Sunday, December 07, 2014
#PJNEt #Obama golf pal called ‘hostile’ witness in #Chicago fraud case
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
One of President Obama’s close friends and regular golf buddies is caught up in a steamy legal case that dates back to the pocket-padding Blagojevich days, as prosecutors accuse him of being a hostile witness.
Prosecutors are trying to speak with Eric Whitaker in connection with a Chicago fraud case involving millions of taxpayer dollars from the former Blagojevich administration to a businessman who allegedly spent it on vacation homes, luxury cars and more.
But court documents claim Whitaker, a 49-year-old physician and former hospital administrator who frequently is photographed with Obama hitting the links, has stopped cooperating with the U.S. District Attorney’s Office.
Federal prosecutors now want to treat him as “a witness clearly hostile to the government” the next time they question him, according to documents filed by the prosecutor’s office at the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Ill.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Grandmas Smoking Weed' Is a Hit on YouTube, but Is It Legal?
By on November 20, 2014 1:24 PM
Three grandmas have gotten millions of views on YouTube by purportedly smoking weed for the first time.
Produced by Cut Video, an offshoot of the Seattle-based creative team Super Frog Saves Tokyo, the viral video features three grandmothers taking bong hits and vaping, in addition to playing Cards Against Humanity and being hilarious.
While we found the whole thing to be comic gold, we definitely had some concerns about whether the whole thing was legal.
Friday, October 31, 2014
D.C., California Next Battlegrounds Over Online Streaming
Online television streaming company Aereo suffered a defeat last week in a New York federal court, but competitor FilmOn X is pressing on with similar fights against copyright lawsuits in Washington and California.
FilmOn X LLC and Aereo Inc. offered services that retransmitted television shows online for a fee, drawing the wrath of broadcast networks. The networks filed lawsuits against Aereo in New York and against FilmOn in New York, Washington and California, arguing the services violated federal copyright law. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court found Aereo—and, by extension, FilmOn—violated the networks’ exclusive right to “publicly perform” the TV programs.
By comparing the services to cable companies, however, the Supreme Court laid the foundation for the next round of litigation. After the cases were sent back to the federal district courts, Aereo and FilmOn renewed their defenses to the networks’ claims by arguing that if they were like cable systems, they were entitled to a performance license under federal laws that applied to cable companies.
On Oct. 23, a federal judge in New York sided with the broadcast networks, finding Aereo was unlikely to succeed with its new arguments. But FilmOn is just getting started in D.C. and California. On Thursday, lawyers for FilmOn and the networks appeared before U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer in Washington, who set a schedule for filing briefs on the question of whether FilmOn should be considered a cable system. Those deadlines stretch into next spring
Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202675091465/DC-California-Next-Battlegrounds-Over-Online-Streaming#ixzz3HjLf3RIA
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Philadelphia: Muslim leaders demand arrest and execution of Bangladeshi politician for insulting Muhammad and Islam
It all started in late September, when Bangladesh’s Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddique criticized the hajj and the Islamic supremacist group Tablighi Jamaat: “Latif Siddique says he is ‘dead against’ hajj, Tabligh,” New Age, September 30, 2014 (thanks to Jamal Hasan):Posts, telecommunications and Information technology minister Abdul Latif Siddique on Sunday made derogatory remarks on hajj, a main pillar of Islam, and said he was dead against hajj and Tabligh Jamaat….
For that, Latif Siddique was fired from the Bangladeshi government. But the controversy didn’t end there. In Bangladesh, Muslims by the thousands demonstrated in the streets, demanding his death. And a group of Muslim leaders called for Latif Siddique to be hanged. They made this call in…Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
http://goo.gl/pB2uS6
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U.S. Terror Victims Win Battle Over Syrian State Funds
After eight years of litigation in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, families of two Americans who were beheaded in 2004 by members of an al-Qaida splinter group are finally on the verge of receiving about $82 million in frozen Syrian bank funds.
The payment would mark the first major U.S. recovery for terror victims involving assets once controlled by Syria's government. But it could still be derailed by rival victims of Syrian-sponsored terror, who insist that the frozen funds should be given to them instead.
The underlying lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C., in 2006 by John Salter of Marietta, Ga.-based Barnes Law Group and Steven Perles of Washington, D.C.'s Perles Law Firm. It sought to hold Syria liable for the deaths of Olin "Jack" Armstrong and Jack Hensley, two U.S. contractors assassinated in Iraq in videotaped beheadings by an al-Qaida spinoff led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Read more: http://www.litigationdaily.com/id=1202674739432/US-Terror-Victims-Win-Battle-Over-Syrian-State-Funds-#ixzz3HStoJE4P
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Brave Mujahideen hang woman in Iran
Jabbari was put in solitary confinement for two months after her arrest and went on trial in 2008
Iran has gone ahead with an execution of a woman despite an international campaign urging a reprieve.
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison on Saturday morning. She had been convicted of killing a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her.
Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former intelligence ministry worker.
Human rights group Amnesty International said her execution was "deeply disappointing in the extreme".
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Lawyers for lesbian mayor tell Supreme Court city petition never 'validated'
HOUSTON STORY CHANGES IN FIGHT WITH PASTORS
Attorneys for Houston’s lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, who is defending a city ordinance granting special rights to transgenders, are insisting to the Texas Supreme Court that opponents have no claim in court, because their petition to reconsider the law was never “validated.”
The argument, however, contradicts the sworn testimony of the city secretary, who has the authority to validate the signatures and determined the petition drive met the minimum requirement.
The city’s brief to the state Supreme Court was filed by attorney Lynne Liberato in a case brought by a coalition of local organizations that had collected about 55,000 signatures, three times more than the required amount, to force the city either to repeal the ordinance or let voters decide on it.
After the city adopted the ordinance in May, the signatures were gathered, and the city secretary affirmed the minimum number had been obtained. But the city attorney then stepped in and invalidated most of the signatures.
The opponents filed suit, and a trial was set for January. In the discovery process, the mayor issued subpoenas for any statements, emails or “sermons” on the issue from five local pastors who were members of a coalition opposing the ordinance but not part of the lawsuit. In the uproar that followed, the city changed the word “sermons” to “speeches,” but attorneys for the ministers said it really made no difference.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/houston-story-changes-in-fight-with-pastors/#yDbTKlR0OLZtFrpw.99
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Blackwater Guards Vow to Appeal Convictions for Iraq Shooting
Updated at 2:40 p.m.
Former Blackwater security guards convicted Wednesday of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians will challenge the verdict, according to defense lawyers. The case, they said, isn't over.
The 2007 shooting in Baghdad’s Nisour Square left 14 people dead and 20 wounded. The jury, which began deliberating in early September, found one of the guards, Nicholas Slatten, guilty of murder. Three other guards, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard, were found guilty on voluntary manslaughter and other related charges. Slough, Liberty and Heard were not charged with murder.
U.S. District Senior Judge Royce Lamberth, who presided over the trial, declared a mistrial on three remaining counts related to Heard. All four guards were remanded into custody
Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202674231408/Blackwater-Guards-Vow-to-Appeal-Convictions-for-Iraq-Shooting#ixzz3GylX1DG7
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Obama to Transform America - To ILLEGALS!
The White House intended to remain silent about its plans for immigration. Revealing a scheme to open the floodgates of amnesty would be disastrous on the eve of the critical midterm elections. But this is the gang that can’t shoot straight.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Friday threw open the door to as many as 100,000 Haitians, who will now move into the United States without a visa.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
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Monday, October 06, 2014
How does a marketing professional motivate lawyers to blog?
A marketing professional recently asked how do you get lawyers to blog. The lawyers, all in one practice group, started off with a bang, but after three months, posts were only coming once a month a or less.
In that this question comes up a lot, I thought it worthwhile to share my answer with you.
Blogs become difficult to maintain if there was not a driving purpose for the blog from the onset. Practice groups often start blogs because they felt compelled to or one or two lawyers got excited to do so.
I’d one, reexamine the purpose and two, look at whether the group is really blogging or just writing articles on blog software. Blogging is easier, generates positive feedback for the lawyers and works better for bringing in business.
http://kevin.lexblog.com/2014/10/05/how-does-a-marketing-professional-motivate-lawyers-to-blog/
A Smartphone Vacation That Wasn't
Vendor Voice: Surprising lessons learned when trying to take a tech-free vacation.
As I wait here for my iPhone 6 I can’t help wax nostalgic for my pathetic attempt to disconnect during my summer vacation.
There’s nothing like a rustic getaway for modern information workers to fill our lungs with air again. The outdoors awakens the spirit and snaps us out of our zombie-like screen-inspired stupor. So with family in tow, I ditched the electronic confines of my life as a software executive and traded in my office tools for those of the outdoors: a Swiss army knife, a walking stick, a bottle of water, a fishing rod … and a flip phone.
Read more: http://www.lawtechnologynews.com/id=1202672404382/A-Smartphone-Vacation-That-Wasnt#ixzz3FMpMofCc
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