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		<title>Medal of Honor &#8230; and Lies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From fishermen to politicians, people tell tales. Sometimes, they claim that the fish was 12 inches larger than it was in reality, and other times, they claim that they will lower taxes. Since the founding of the United States, 3,475 Medal of Honor awards have been given to American soldiers. The last was given in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Appeals Panel Overturns Prop. 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 7th, 2012, a federal appeals panel in San Francisco, California ruled that Proposition 8, passed by 52% of the vote in 2008, is unconstitutional. According to U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, considered to be among the most liberal appellate judges, “Proposition 8 serves no purpose and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ship Passenger Sue Cruise Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sandra Rodgers, a passenger of the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that capsized off of the shore of Italy on February 13, is suing Miami-based Carnival. According to Rogers, a British citizen, &#8220;the evacuation of the ship was completely chaotic. There was certainly no &#8216;women and children first&#8217; policy. It was disgusting.&#8221; During the evacuation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Loblaw&#8217;s Law Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although this blog strives to maintain a certain level of professionalism, it must be noted that a law blog like this one can hardly exist without mentioning one of comedy&#8217;s greatest inventions: Bob Loblaw Law Blog. In the third and final season of the mildly successful FOX comedy, Arrested Development, Bob Loblaw is introduced. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in Pakinstan&#8217;s Supreme Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cases that the United States Supreme Court hears are often controversial, ranging from gun-control laws to abortion, immigration to economic regulation, environmental protection to campaign finance. It even decides between the different schemes of government that are within America. James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, wrote that because “controversies relating to the boundary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiley P. Wooten, Esq. selected by peers for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the practice area of Family Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burlington, NC, October 24, 2011 – The Vernon Law Firm is pleased to announce the  inclusion of Wiley P. Wooten in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the practice of Family Law. Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Synopsis: United States v. Lopez (1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Facts: Congress passed the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, making the possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a public or private school a federal crime. Twelfth-grader Alfonso Lopez, Jr. was found holding a .38 caliber handgun into a San Antonio high school and was charged with breaking a Texas law that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Synopsis: United States v. Kahriger (1953)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facts: Congress enacted the Revenue Act of 1951 which mandated that “persons engaged in the business of accepting wages” must register for and pay an occupational tax. The tax applied to interstate as well as intrastate wagers. When Mr. Kahriger was found in violation to the law, he “moved to dismiss on the ground that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Synopsis: Home Building &amp; Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facts: In order to prevent foreclosures, the Minnesota legislature enacted the Minnesota Moratorium Act of 1934, which gave the states courts the power to postpone the mortgage payments of farmers and homeowners. When John Blaisdell applied for a postponement of his payments to the Home Building &#38; Loan Association, a trial court dismissed his case. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synopsis: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facts: New York’s legislature gave two men, Robert Livingston and Robert Fulton, a monopoly on the operation of steamboats on all waters within the jurisdiction of the state. Livingston and Fulton then granted Aaron Ogden the exclusive right to operate a ferry between New York City and various ports along New Jersey’s coast. Ogden requested [...]]]></description>
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