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Its all about precedent: Justice Department wants Apple to unlock 12 additional devices
2016-02-23 20:45:12| Extremetech
The FBI claims that there's no precedent being set by requesting access to a single Apple iPhone -- but it's already filed similar requests on 12 other devices.
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Death Justice Antonin Scalia may shift US climate change laws
2016-02-15 19:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The death of Justice Antonin Scalia on 13 February could have international ramifications for climate change, abortion law and other contentious issues, as the balance of power in the US Supreme Court shifts. When the court recently voted to suspend the Clean Power Plan -- the centrepiece of President Obama`s climate change efforts -- many worried the bill was in peril. The plan to curb emissions from power plants, which helped to secure the better-than-expected UN climate deal in Paris in December,...
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US supreme court: the key issues affected by death of Justice Scalia
2016-02-14 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The death of Antonin Scalia on Saturday, at the age of 79, created an opening on the US supreme court. Paying tribute to Scalia, President Obama said he would nominate a successor. In the Senate and on the campaign trail, however, Republicans said they would not cooperate, even to the extent of scheduling a nomination hearing in the upper house they control, at any point in the presidents final year in office. We could be in for a year or more with only eight justices on the supreme court,...
A Look Back: Justice Scalia on CO2 and Why the E.P.A. Isnt the Atmospheric Protection Agency
2016-02-14 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Tens of thousands of words will flow in the coming days on the significance of the life and death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Texas resort. Adam Liptak leads Times coverage here. His death came just a few days after an unprecedented move by the court put a roadblock in the way of President Obamas Clean Power Plan regulating carbon dioxide from power plants. (David Doniger of the Natural Resources Defense Council does a good job here of dissecting the meaning of the stay in the...
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Retired NJ Supreme Court justice Marie L. Garibaldi dies
2016-01-17 17:24:52| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
A member of the top court from 1982 until 2000, Garibaldi broke barriers for women over a 40-year career that started while female lawyers were a rarity. Today, around one-third of lawyers nationwide are women, and the state Supreme Court from 2011 to 2013 had a four-woman majority and has three today.
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