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• Muslim meatpackers fired for praying

  Published: July 24, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Islam, Work, The Law, America

  my shirt,'' Mohamed said.A lawsuit has not been filed. Civil-rights laws protect the religious observance of employees, so long as it is not burdensome to the company. The meatpacking company says the employees stopped working without

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• Post-Catholic Britain?

  Published: June 28, 2007, 8:13 am

  Tags: Catholicism, Health, Natural Law, Politics, Ruth Kelly, Secularism

  The indult is on its way, to be published 7 July. Some senior bishops already have it. Meanwhile, I am trying to check out a bizarre rumour I've heard - I stress it is just a rumour at present and...

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• CADNA Steps up Assault on Domain Name Owners

  Published: July 24, 2007, 2:41 pm

  Tags: Policy Amp Law

  you never know what types of laws they’ll pass. One way for the domain community to come together and combat any overreaching by CADNA is to support its proposition to end kiting. Very few domain owners participate in this activity, and cracking down will help legitimize the industry and give organizations like CADNA one less issue to

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• Hippies, Dems 'Burned Up' Over Flag Amendment

  Published: June 15, 2006, 6:00 am

  Tags: Art, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Family, Games, Holiday, Law

  desecration is in fact outlawed. Dixie Chicks 'flame out'It isn't just Seattle hippies that are burned up over Senate's move to protect the symbol that Americans hold dearest. Controversial country rockers, the Dixie Chicks, are also reportedly rethinking the concept for their 2006 tour, nicknamed the "Burn this Flag" tour. The

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• Most Massachusetts Marriages on Verge of Collapse

  Published: June 14, 2006, 6:00 am

  Tags: Advice Self Help, Current Affairs, Family, Law, Religion

  It has been just over two years since a tribunal of black-robed Massachusetts judges set out to undermine traditional marriage. Now say a growing number of experts, most marriages in that state are teetering on the verge of collapse. It is predicted that by 2013, the majority of adults in Massachusetts will be 'hooking up with' or married to at

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• Bush: We Will Defend Marriage, Borders

  Published: June 5, 2006, 6:00 am

  Tags: Current Affairs, Family, Law, Religion, Television

  They do the jobs that Americans by and large refuse to do: hairstylist, flower arranger, bathhouse attendant. But if President Bush gets his way, an amendment to the Constitution known as the Marriage and Border Protection Amendment will soon bar gay aliens from penetrating the nation's borders and undermining our most sacred institution: legal

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• TerranceDC's Amazing Post On Hate Crimes

  Published: July 17, 2007, 1:49 pm

  Tags: Law, Gay Rights, Blogging, Lgbt

  Run, DO NOT WALK, over to Pam's House Blend or Republic of T to see TerranceDC's latest round up on hate crimes raising awareness of the federal hate crimes bill, S. 1105, currently pending before the United States Senate.The post is lengthy, well-written and powerful. Read it now!

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• You say hack, I say cache

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:49 am

  Tags: Business Of Law

  from the The New Jersey Law Journal on Law.com today. We spotted it at McKee's Small Business Blog.) According to Michael Booth at the Law Journal, Healthcare Advocates had sued Internet Archive and a rival health company with a very similar name to its own, Health Advocate Inc. of Plymouth Meeting, accusing them of stealing trade secrets

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• Copyright Tool: Fair Use Visualizer

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:38 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Dmca, Fair Use, Plagiarism

  difficult area of copyright law is fair use. Not only are the issues involved in fair use complicated and difficult to understand, but the answer is never satisfying. Since fair use can only be decided by a judge or jury and is handled on a case-by-case basis, there is no way to offer a definitive answer about what is or is not fair use. One

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• Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Products, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Google, Marketing, Plagiarism, Reuptation, Scraping, Search Engines, Seo

  For most, being plagiarized is an inherently emotional experience. Finding out that someone else copied and claimed something that took hours to produce is bound to produce some negative feelings. This has lead some to wonder if fighting plagiarism is more about revenge than practicality. To some, it is better to simply forget about the

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• WordPress and Comment Spam

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress

  I would like to take an aside and delve into a related topic that has been on my mind for the past few months: Comment spam. Though it doesn’t have much to do with content theft, I have several reasons for wanting to cover this. First many of the RSS scrapers and spam bloggers also use this technique to supplement their work. Second, in some

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• Copyright 2.0 Show - Episode 16 - Irony

  Published: July 23, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Podcast, Articles, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Harry Potter, Iphone, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa

  It’s Monday again and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. This week, we delve into this week’s latest copyright news with our usual mix of humor and sarcasm. This week’s topics include the following: RIAA takes a pair of major blows Harry Potter gets leaked The iPhone gets called a copyright

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• Quicksilver proxies for fast, easy printing

  Published: July 23, 2007, 9:29 am

  Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Tips, Quicksilver, Productivity, Mac Law Students, Macs, Os X, Printing

  to you. apple macs os x, mac law students, macs, os x, printing, quicksilver, tips Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board today, and get 43% off with checkout coupon 43OFFTHRUJUL. Offer ends 7/31.

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• Featured links for July 8th

  Published: July 8, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Daily Links, Advertising, Apple, Arbys, Business, Clutter, Decluttering, Del Icio Us, Europe, Google, Greys Law, Hardware, Heh, History, Iphone, Laws, Links, Macintosh, Math, Merlinmann, Nostlagia, Telekinesis

  Knowledge Dump: Grey’s Law - “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” telekinesis - Google Code - What if the “applications” for iPhone lived back on your home Mac? Promising-looking demo from Google. 100 gallons of clothes: gone on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Realizing I can live with

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• France planning to 'triple' CCTV surveillance capacity

  Published: July 28, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Big Brother, Bigbrother, Cctv, France, French, Law, Legal, Lopsi, Safety, Security, Surveillance, Terrorism, Violence

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAt least those residing in the UK can breathe a momentary sigh of relief, as it's not the only locale where the amount of surveillance drones is quickly approaching the number of citizens. Reportedly, French interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie recently announced that the government is planning to "triple" the existing

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