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• Officer's lawyer: SLED missed bullets at Walter Scott scene - Yahoo News UK - Yahoo News UK

  04-07-2015 19:24
  
  Officer's lawyer: SLED missed bullets at Walter Scott scene - Yahoo News UK
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  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The lawyer for a North Charleston police officer charged with murder says state police missed two bullets found by private investigators at the shooting scene two weeks later. In a court filing obtained by The Post and Courier ...en meer »
  
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• Officer's lawyer: SLED missed bullets at Walter Scott scene - Yahoo News UK

  04-07-2015 19:24
  
  Officer's lawyer: SLED missed bullets at Walter Scott scene
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  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The lawyer for a North Charleston police officer charged with murder says state police missed two bullets found by private investigators at the shooting scene two weeks later. In a court filing obtained by The Post and Courier ...en meer »
  
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• Gay marriage plaintiff Obergefell: push for religious freedom laws is offensive

  04-07-2015 16:27
  
  Man at center of supreme court case says such measures suggest ‘that those of us who believe in equality have no conscience’ Related: 'This decision will not stand': Republicans seek common cause against same-sex marriage Jim Obergefell made history on 26 June, when the supreme court ruled on his case and in a 5-4 vote legalized same-sex marriage across the US. But not all in the nation have celebrated the expansion of marriage equality. Social conservatives have spent the last week emphasiz
  
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• Gay marriage plaintiff Obergefell: push for religious freedom laws is “offensive”

  04-07-2015 16:27
  
  Man at center of supreme court case says such suggest ‘that those of us who believe in equality have no conscience’ Related: 'This decision will not stand': Republicans seek common cause against same-sex marriage Jim Obergefell made history on 26 June, when the supreme court ruled on his case and in a 5-4 vote legalized same-sex marriage across the US. But not all in the nation have celebrated the expansion of marriage equality. Social conservatives have spent the last week emphasizing the n
  
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• Lawyer: two of the three UK schoolgirls who left for Syria wed Daesh fighters ... - Al-Bawaba

  04-07-2015 16:10
  
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  Lawyer: two of the three UK schoolgirls who left for Syria wed Daesh fighters ...
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  Two of the three London schoolgirls who left for Syria in a high-profile case earlier this year have wed Daesh militants, said the families' lawyer. (British Met Police). More >. Create alert for LondonLondon. ,. Create alert for RaqqaRaqqa. ,. Create ...
  Two London teens have married IS group fighters: lawyer - Yahoo News UKYahoo News UKalle 152 nieuwsartikelen »
  
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• Lawyer: two of the three UK schoolgirls who left for Syria wed Daesh fighters - Al-Bawaba

  04-07-2015 16:10
  
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  Lawyer: two of the three UK schoolgirls who left for Syria wed Daesh fighters
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  Two of the three London schoolgirls who left for Syria in a high-profile case earlier this year have wed Daesh militants, said the families' lawyer. (British Met Police). More >. Create alert for LondonLondon. ,. Create alert for RaqqaRaqqa. ,. Create ...
  Two London teens have married IS group fighters: lawyerYahoo News UKalle 67 nieuwsartikelen »
  
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• Oregon bakery that refused same-sex couple owes $135,000 in damages

  04-07-2015 15:58
  
  Bureau of Labor and Industries’ ruling comes after Portland-area shop Sweet Cakes by Melissa would not bake wedding cake, but bakers could appealThe owners of a Portland-area bakery that denied service to a same-sex couple must pay $135,000 in damages, the bureau of labor and industries has ruled.The damages are for emotional suffering caused by Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which two years ago refused to bake a wedding cake for Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer. Continue reading...
  
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• 'This decision will not stand': Republicans seek common cause against same-sex marriage

  04-07-2015 14:00
  After the supreme court made gay marriage legal in all 50 states, conservatives are united in opposition but divided over how best to pursue their causeFor many opponents of same-sex marriage, the fight has just started. While supporters of marriage equality celebrate the supreme court’s historic decision in Obergefell v Hodges, advocates for traditional marriage have redoubled their efforts to influence policymakers. But the fight takes place in an unfamiliar political landscape, one where ga
  
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• Pirate Bay founders: FBI has Prenda Law under investigation - Ars Technica UK

  04-07-2015 11:45
  
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  Pirate Bay founders: FBI has Prenda Law under investigation
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  A federal judge referred the lawyers behind the Prenda Law "copyright trolling" scheme to investigators in 2013. Since then, there's been no indication of what stage an investigation is at, or if it's happening at all. Now, two co-founders of The ...en meer »
  
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• Estonian blocked as UN's first digital privacy investigator

  04-07-2015 01:56
  
  Activists said Katrin Nyman-Metcalf would not be strong enough critic of USThe Estonian picked as the United Nation’s first digital privacy investigator was blocked on Friday by the German president of the UN Human Rights Council, after activist groups said she would not be a strong enough critic of US surveillance. Katrin Nyman-Metcalf was the candidate ranked first by a “consultative group” of five ambassadors – from Poland, Chile, Greece, Algeria and chaired by Saudi Arabia. But when
  
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• Gove is right: our antiquated court system produces two-nation justice | Heather Brooke

  04-07-2015 01:26
  
  As legal aid cuts force people to represent themselves, the costly, tortuous steps to access court records threaten access to justice. But it needn’t be this way – as the US showsJustice must be seen to be done. It is a famous aphorism laid down in 1924 by Lord Hewart, the lord chief justice. But what happens when people put this principle to the test? When they actually go to court?Michael Gove has given his own account of this exercise, narrating in his first speech as justice secretary hi
  
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