Oklahoma City, OK — Oklahoma mom’s-to-be now have the legal right to use deadly force to protect their unborn child. On April 20, Gov. Brad Henry signed Senate Bill 1103, the “Use of Force for the Protection of the Unborn Act,” into Oklahoma law.
Under the bill, a pregnant woman is legally justified in using deadly [...]
Although a Moscow court ruled last week that Russian officials can shut down any web site as a result of “extremist” comments posted by their users, Russia’s president, former corporate attorney and law professor Dmitry Medvedev, is getting connected with the people online.
Hosted by LiveJournal, Medvedev has begun a blog, in his attempt at [...]
SAN FRANSISCO, Cali. — The state Supreme Court denied review of an appeal and thus left intact a lower-court ruling that said private schools have the right to expel homosexuals. The decision came from a case in which a private Lutheran high school in Riverside Country expelled two girls for believing they were lesbians.
In Septemember [...]
Dr. M.G. “Pat” Robertson, founder of Regent University — including Regent University School of Law – plans to retire next summer as president of Regent University, the private Christian university he founded in 1978, according the school web site.
Robertson, 79-years-old, who became the university’s sixth president in 2000 will retire from the position effective July [...]
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Mint.com, if you have not heard of it yet — because it has won numerous awards technology web sites and magazines — is a free, web-based personal finance software [...]
FLORIDA – Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) has urged the Florida Senate to reject a bill creating two “Christian” license plates – one with the image of a cross and another image of Jesus. AU is threatening a lawsuit if the measure becomes law.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is not shying [...]
WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a 5-4 decision, upheld the Federal Communication Commission’s indecency policy, a ban on one-time utterances of certain expletives over the nation’s airwaves. The court’s ruling said the FCC — which was prompted by celebrities cursing on a FOX Television broadcast during an awards show– [...]
Law.com is reporting that midsized firms based in the Midwest are far outperforming large, urban law firms. The Midwest midsized firms are hiring lawyers, opening offices and bringing on new associates much more than many larger urban rivals in the face of the recession.
Law firms between 100 and 450 lawyers, say their success is [...]
The Christian Law Journal, an online publication that delivers the latest legal news affecting the Christian legal community has developed a fun tool to help people memorize the U.S. Constitution.
It is called U.S. Constitution Memory Game and is available for your iGoogle portal page, or for Webmasters to add it to their web site.
This application [...]
