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	<title>USLegal Blog</title>
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	<description>US Legal Matters of Interest | US Legal Blog</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Heller Got His Gun: An Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/06/30/heller-got-his-gun-an-individual-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/06/30/heller-got-his-gun-an-individual-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Constitutional Law</category>

		<category>Gun Control/Second Amendment</category>

		<category>Supreme Court</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[District of Columbia vs. Heller (opinion) is in the books, and the Second Amendment now protects a elementary individual right to keep and bear ordinary firearms for self defense without federal interference. The decision leaves open the question of whether the Second Amendment is &#8220;incorporated against the states&#8221; (DC being a federal enclave). I logged some background earlier, here and here.
DC&#8217;s gun ban permitted no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large Hadron Collider: United States Answers Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/06/25/large-hadron-collider-united-states-answers-lawsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/06/25/large-hadron-collider-united-states-answers-lawsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Homeland Security</category>

		<category>Law and Society</category>

		<category>Environmental Law</category>

		<category>Monkey Business</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/06/25/large-hadron-collider-united-states-answers-lawsuit/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote earlier about the Large Hadron Collider particle physics funpark in (under) France, and the lawsuit filed in Hawaii by two scientists with concerns that turning the LHC on could Destroy the Earth.
The United States filed its response today, as reported on Alan Boyle&#8217;s &#8220;Cosmic Log&#8221; (MSNBC). The Government&#8217;s main objections are fourfold: (1) the statute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scalia&#8217;s Establishment Clause Footprints Fantasy</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/06/02/scalias-establishment-clause-footprints-fantasy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/06/02/scalias-establishment-clause-footprints-fantasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Free Speech</category>

		<category>Constitutional Law</category>

		<category>SCOTUS</category>

		<category>Intellectual Property Law</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forgive the Frankensteinian headline. Three items caught my eye today:
LATimes.com reports the Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Major League Baseball from a loss to a &#8221;fantasy&#8221; baseball league. The for-profit fantasy league says it is just disseminating publicly available statistics (in line with First Amendment Free Speech), but MLB says that when linked to the names of players &#8212; who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Marriage, MySpace Hoax &#038; Auction Sites at War</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/05/16/california-marriage-myspace-hoax-auction-sites-at-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/05/16/california-marriage-myspace-hoax-auction-sites-at-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 21:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Criminal Law</category>

		<category>Constitutional Law</category>

		<category>Internet Culture</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One big story and a couple of notes:
Biggest legal news is the California Supreme Court&#8217;s 4-3 decision allowing gay marriage on equal protection grounds (172 pg. opinion). Called &#8220;revolutionary,&#8221; this was a double &#8221;first&#8221; - the first time a court used &#8220;strict scrutiny&#8221; to examine a law aimed at gays (an earlier Massachusetts decision had used only a &#8220;rational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of Indiana Voter Photo Identification Law</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/05/09/effects-of-indiana-voter-photo-identification-law/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/05/09/effects-of-indiana-voter-photo-identification-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>della</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Elections</category>

		<category>Constitutional Law</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Indiana had impressive turnout at its Democratic primary this week despite the April 28th US Supreme Court ruling that upheld the state&#8217;s voter photo identification requirement. (See US Legal Reporter April 28th entry at  http://reporter.uslegal.com/). As the new law was applied on Tuesday, persons without state or federal identification that included a photograph were not allowed to vote.
Interestingly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Electric Airplanes: Green Transport of the Future?</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/05/02/personal-electric-airplanes-green-transport-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/05/02/personal-electric-airplanes-green-transport-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 21:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Environmental Law</category>

		<category>From the Consumer Desk</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Green Tech Blog, a story too good to pass up on inspiring little planes. There is a tenuous legal hook for this post, but mainly I was just wowed by these works of avionic art and wanted to share.  Don&#8217;t miss the gallery.
Light, electric powered planes built from carbon fiber are advancing to the point of initial economic viability ($77,000, $133,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Bell: &#8220;Observed&#8221; Reaching for a Non-Existent Weapon?</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/04/25/sean-bell-observed-reaching-for-a-non-existent-weapon/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/04/25/sean-bell-observed-reaching-for-a-non-existent-weapon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Police Conduct</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/04/25/sean-bell-observed-reaching-for-a-non-existent-weapon/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to discuss how, at night, someone outside a moving vehicle can observe someone inside the vehicle and reasonably determine that the passenger has &#8220;move[d] his body as if he were reaching for a weapon.&#8221; This observational conclusion seems key to the policeman&#8217;s decision to open fire (in which other police immediately joined) upon Sean Bell and his friends (all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large Hadron Collider: Front Row Seat to the Big Bang?</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/04/16/large-hadron-collider-front-row-seat-to-the-big-bang/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/04/16/large-hadron-collider-front-row-seat-to-the-big-bang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Homeland Security</category>

		<category>Law and Society</category>

		<category>Environmental Law</category>

		<category>Monkey Business</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On rare occasions, the disparate worlds of &#8220;the law&#8221; and &#8220;particle physics&#8221; collide (pun intended). Now is such a one.
This summer, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will begin experiments with its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), an incredibly complex circular tube 27 kilometers long through which atoms and bits of atoms will be accelerated (in opposite directions) to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heller Gun Case Update: Oral Arguments</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/03/19/heller-gun-case-update-oral-arguments/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/03/19/heller-gun-case-update-oral-arguments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gun Control/Second Amendment</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I previewed the Heller case six months ago here. Check that for a primer. Oral argument (transcript) was held yesterday, in this, the momentous Second Amendment gun rights case. In the balance: whether and to what degree a governmental entity may regulate the possession of firearms - a major social/cultural issue in American political life.
Two excellent articles discussing the case and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Contractor Finds $182,000+ in Walls</title>
		<link>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/03/10/update-contractor-finds-182000-in-walls/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uslegal.com/2008/03/10/update-contractor-finds-182000-in-walls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Sunken Treasure!</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An update on the story I first mentioned here.
To refresh your memory (or check above link), contractor Robert Kitts found lots of antique cash (worth $500K+ to collectors) stuffed in the walls he was tearing out, then got into a dispute with the owner, Amanda Reece, about ownership of the loot. Identifying mark &#8220;P. Dunne&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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