May 14
Add another institution of legal learning to the lengthening list of those dealing with the recessionary economy by reducing the size of the incoming class.
George Washington University Law School says it hopes to reduce enrollment in the first-year class from last year’s 474 to below 450, the National Law Journal reports.
Dean Paul Schiff Berman, who started work in that role a year ago, said he had planned from the outset to cut the first-year class. His resolve was strengthened, he said, when applications dropped 15 percent or so at GWU, just as they did on average at law schools nationwide.
The University of California Hastings College of the Law made a similar announcement last month.
And Albany Law School, Creighton University School of Law and Touro College Jacob D.
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May 12
This comes from Baldwin Park Patch:
Police dispatcher is broadcasting to patrols in the area, that a resident called to report 4 male youths are threatening residents around Baldwin Park Blvd. and Francisquito Avenue. Apparently one of them is armed.
May 07
Twitter is fighting a subpoena demanding tweets of an Occupy protester on trial in Manhattan. The outcome of the battle could have a major impact on tweeters privacy. The company is arguing that Twitter has no claim on a users communication, and therefore has no right to turn them over to a court. Prosecutors are seeking three months of tweets written by protester Malcolm Harris, who was busted on the Brooklyn Bridge last year along with 700 other Occupy activists. Harris filed his own motion to quash the subpoena, contending theres “no justification” for access to “such a broad swath of electronic data.” But the judge threw out the motion, ruling that the tweets dont belong to him and he has no standing to fight for them.
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May 06
Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton captured the Democratic primary for governor Tuesday, setting up a general election race with former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory that will feature two baby boomers regarded as moderates by their own parties.
Dalton, a small-town lawyer from Rutherford County, defeated one of the partys veteran war horses, former U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge. With 62 counties reporting, Dalton was leading Etheridge 46 percent to 38 percent, with state Rep. Bill Faison of Orange County with less than 6 percent.
He did so after moving quickly to pick up the pieces of the Democratic organization, particularly its donor base, when Gov. Bev Perdue surprised the party in January when she announced that would not seek re-election.
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Apr 13
PEWAUKEE, Wis. — To Mitt Romney, the economy is in a shambles. To fellow Republican Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, it is a glowing success.
Romney and Walker offered clashing portraits of the economy at a Waukesha County GOP dinner on Saturday.
It was a jarring display of how political imperatives can lead candidates of the same party to examine the same set of facts and reach wildly different conclusions that suit their needs for an upcoming election.
Facing a June recall vote sparked by his fight with unions of government workers, Walker cast himself as the governor whose fiscal restraint has turned Wisconsin’s economy around.
“The unemployment rate is now below 7 percent for the first time since 2008,” he boasted.
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