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Mass. Bill Restricts School Bake Sales

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WWLP 22 News | "The Departments of Public Health and Education think the bill should take things one step further and ban whole milk and white bread from cafeterias as well."

Biden 'comfortable' with gay marriage

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
Vice President Joe Biden states in an interview that he is "absolutely comfortable" with the idea of same-sex marriage.
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N.Y. boy seeks to remain on girls field hockey squad

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — He's too good, and that's too bad.

A 13-year-old New York boy who played field hockey growing up in Ireland has been told that after two years as a member of the Southampton High School girls' team, he is now too skilled to qualify for an ...

CAAF: Consent to UA could be withdrawn before testing under M.R.E. 314(e)(3)

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25

Defendant Airman first consented to a UA but withdrew his consent before the testing was done. This was potentially binding under M.R.E. 314(e)(3), which had to be considered. Also, his UA could not be considered an abandonment. United States v. Dease, 2012 CAAF LEXIS 536 (C.A. A.F. May 1, 2012):

For the reasons set forth below, we hold that the military judge did not abuse his discretion in ruling that Appellant had a privacy interest in his urine sample and could withdraw consent prior to the search. Further, the military judge did not abuse his discretion in concluding that the urinalysis evidence and evidence derived from that urinalysis would not have been subject to inevitable discovery. Seizure and search are not necessarily coterminous, particularly in the context of a urinalysis case. M.R.E. 314(e)(3) states that "[c]onsent may be limited in any way by the person granting consent, including limitations in terms of time, place, or property and may be withdrawn at any time." (Emphasis added.) Therefore, the lower court erred in determining that Appellant's privacy interest in his urinalysis sample was extinguished by his voluntary surrender of his urine to the Government, without addressing M.R.E. 314(e)(3).

CA2: Challenging consent search for scope rather than voluntariness was strategic decision

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25

Defendant’s challenge to his 1992 search was originally on scope of search rather than the validity of third party consent. Reviewing for plain error, counsel was not ineffective for not challenging the consent on that ground rather than voluntariness. “Strickland grants no license to question counsel's strategic decisions.” United States v. Balogun, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 9127 (2d Cir. May 4, 2012).*

Defendant passed out in his car going the wrong way through a McDonald’s drive-in was reasonable suspicion. State v. Ownby, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 274 (May 3, 2012).*

Crovitz: The U.N. Wants to Run the Internet

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
Authoritarian regimes want to prohibit anonymity on the Web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents.


Socialist France

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
Hollande's center-left model should be Gerhard Schröder.


The New Greek Extremism

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
Voters are giving up on the political mainstream in Athens.


James Bovard: Don't Worry (About GDP), Be Happy

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
With the economy slow and joblessness high, the feds want a new way to measure well-being.


Carrie Lukas: 'Paycheck Fairness' Will Mean a Pay Cut for Men

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
Wage discrimination is already illegal. So what? Get ready for another phony debate.


Jon Huntsman: How to Manage the China Relationship

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
Despite economic success and growing regional influence, Chinese leaders are profoundly insecure.


O'Grady: Evo Morales's Victims Push Back

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
As protests against him rise and his popularity falls, the Bolivian president nationalizes another big company.


Peter Berkowitz: Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
James Grant on the Federal Reserve's misguided fear of deflation.


Windy Republicans

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:25
GOP Congressmen sign up for energy crony capitalism.


American Scene: Man's death at Derby track called a homicide

LOUISVILLE — The discovery of a man's body Sunday in the stable area of Churchill Downs was being investigated as a homicide, but there appears to be no connection to the race track or the Kentucky Derby, police said.

"At this point we don't have anything pointing to the fact ...

What killed Lenin? Poison called possibility

BALTIMORE — Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the Soviet Union's founder, a UCLA neurologist said.

Dr. Harry Vinters and Russian historian Lev Lurie reviewed Lenin's records Friday for an annual ...

North Carolina voting on gay marriage

Opponents of North Carolina's marriage amendment are aiming to pull out a surprise victory Tuesday, while supporters are fighting to ensure that their state joins the rest of the South in saying that only marriages between one man and one woman are legally valid.

Recent polls indicate that the constitutional ...

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