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A New York state judge halted NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on sales of large sugary drinks . According to the judge, Bloomberg’s rule “fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences.

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Yesterday, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue delivered his “State of American Business” address, in which he laid out the wealthy corporate lobbying group’s agenda for the coming year. After using several questionable statistics to attack regulations intended to protect the environment or prevent Wall Street from triggering another economic crisis, Donohue’s speech includes a promise to unleash a barrage of well-compensated lawyers to help immunize corporate America from these regulations.

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On Friday, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in an order joined by two conservative Republican appointees, temporarily immunized a company from the Obama Administration’s rules guaranteeing that employer-provided health plans cover birth control. Judge Ilana Rovner, a George H.W.

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Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, who died in Guantanamo Bay though he was repeatedly approved for release The Justice Department released the names of 55 prisoners still being held in Guantanamo Bay three years after the Obama administration’s Guantanamo Bay Task Force cleared them for transfer.

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Major corporate law firms are now paying recent Supreme Court clerks, many of whom are only two years out of law school and can be as young as 28 years old, a $280,000 signing bonus simply for showing up to their first day of work. That’s in addition to base salaries around $185,000 for the first year out of clerkship and a year-end bonus in the five figures.

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As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than on higher education. Since 1980, the prison population has skyrocketed 436 percent, while spending on higher education has decreased by 13 percent adjusted for inflation, according to the report by California Common Sense. The Huffington Post explains: Fifty-five percent of the growth of corrections spending is the result of the state simply putting more people in jail.

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Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino mogul who already spent at least $5 million to help keep Republicans in control of the House next year, reportedly pledged $500,000 to just one House candidate , New Jersey Republican candidate Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. While half-a-million dollars sure sounds like a lot of money, it is chump change to Mr. Adelson

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The California Supreme Court dismissed review yesterday of an important appellate court ruling affecting medical marijuana dispensaries throughout the state. Specifically, the High Court threw out the controversial decision in Pack v. City of Long Beach, which previously held that federal law preempted some forms of dispensary regulations.

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Marian Wright Edelman This report is a portrait of where our children are right now and a tool to spur us to set the vision of where we need to go to stop the downward mobility of our children and grandchildren and the diminution of America’s future. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.&rdquo read more

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