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Writers object after UK court bans abuse memoir
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2014/10/20 20:03
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Prominent writers say free speech is under threat after a British court halted publication of a celebrity's memoir of child abuse because his ex-wife argued that it would harm their son.
Three appeals court judges last week temporarily stopped publication of the book, which has already been printed and was due to be published this fall.
They described the author as a "talented young performing artist" whose ex-wife lives abroad with their son.
She argued the book would cause "psychological harm" to the boy, who has Asperger's syndrome and other disabilities.
The judges granted an injunction stopping publication of key sections of the book pending a full trial.
On Friday writers including Tom Stoppard, David Hare and Stephen Fry called the ruling "a significant threat to freedom of expression." |
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Texas abortion clinics reopen after court reprieve
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2014/10/20 20:03
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Texas abortion clinics that closed under tough new restrictions began reopening Wednesday after winning a reprieve at the U.S. Supreme Court, but the facilities were scheduling women with uncertainty and skeleton staffs.
A five-sentence ruling late Tuesday blocked parts of a sweeping Texas abortion law that required clinics to meet hospital-level operating standards starting Oct. 3. That had left only eight abortion facilities in the nation's second-most populous state.
Celebration among some abortion providers, however, was muted by logistics and fears that the victory is only temporary. Women seeking abortions kept phone lines busy at the Routh Street Women's Clinic in Dallas, where a former staff of 17 people is down to to single digits after the procedure was halted by the law earlier this month.
The high court only suspended the restrictions for now pending appeals, and offered no explanation for the decision.
"Some of them will come back, and some of them probably aren't," said Ginny Braun, the Dallas clinic director, about former employees that took other jobs in the past two weeks. "As one person eloquently put it this morning, whiplash is no longer a sustainable life choice for her."
Along the Texas-Mexico border, the only abortion clinic in 300 miles will resume abortion services in McAllen starting Friday, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of Whole Woman's Health. But staffing and financial difficulties prevent any immediate reopening of clinics in Austin and Fort Worth, and the prospects of reopening another in Beaumont are even dimmer, she said.
Hagstrom Miller said she has laid off more than 50 employees since last year, and that the on-again, off-again status of her clinics have led to taking on $500,000 in debt over the last six months. |
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San Jose Family Law Lawyer
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2014/10/03 16:44
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Divorce is stressful and the Onu Law Firm strives to take care of families going through the divorce process in the least stressful and most economical way possible.
Children come first and the Onu Law Firm’s first goal is to insure your children’s welfare. Our Family law attorneys will insure that the interests of your children are protected in an effort to insure that your children’s lives will not be disrupted.
The Firm’s second objective is to insure clients receive the best possible outcome in the division of Marital Estate. We make use of accountants and other professionals to value every possible asset in order to maximize our client’s portion of divided assets under California Law.
If you are in need of a San Francisco family law practitioner, we encourage you to contact the Onu Law Firm.
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Colorado high court considers pot firing case
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2014/10/03 16:41
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Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it.
Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient who was fired by the Dish Network after failing a drug test more than four years ago, says he still can't find steady work because employers are wary of his off-duty smoking.
In a case being closely watched around the country, Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in Coats' case, which could have big implications for pot smokers in the first state to legalize recreational sales of the drug. The case highlights the clash between state laws that are increasingly accepting of marijuana use and employers' drug-free policies that won't tolerate it.
"Attitudes are changing toward marijuana. Laws are going to have to change, too," Coats told The Associated Press. "I'd like for this to enable people like me to find employment without being looked down upon."
Coats, 35, was paralyzed in a car crash as a teenager and has been a medical marijuana patient since 2009, when, after a doctor's urging, he discovered that pot helped calm violent muscle spasms that were making it difficult to work.
Coats, who worked for three years as a telephone operator with Dish, was fired in 2010 for failing a random company drug test. He said he told his supervisors in advance that he probably would fail the test.
He said he was never high at work, and Dish did not allege he was ever impaired on the job. But pot's intoxicating chemical, THC, can stay in the system for weeks.
Coats is making his argument under a state law intended to protect cigarette smokers from being fired for legal behavior off the clock.
But the company argues that because pot remains illegal at the federal level, medical marijuana isn't covered by the state law. A trial court judge and Colorado's appeals court agreed.
A patchwork of laws across the country and the conflict between state and federal laws has left the issue unclear. Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C., allow medical marijuana, but courts have ruled against employees who say their pot use is protected. Colorado and Washington state also now allow recreational sales, though court cases so far have involved medical patients.
Colorado's constitution specifically says that employers don't have to amend their policies to accommodate employees' marijuana use. But Arizona law, for example, says workers can't be punished for lawfully using medical marijuana unless it would jeopardize an employer's federal contract. |
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San Francisco Business Lawyer - The Onu Law Firm
Law Firm News |
2014/09/23 21:33
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The Onu Law Firm provides services to sole proprietors, partnerships, and corporations in the development and implementation of asset protection, growth strategies, and personnel management. The Onu Law firm has the expertise needed to maintain your business and expand revenue possibility and opportunity.
If you’re in need of a business or corporate lawyer in San Francisco, the Onu Law Firm represents national, regional, and local clients on the following business matters:
Mergers and Acquisitions
Business Sale or Purchase
Business Entity Formation and Governance
Riasing Capital
Business Plan Analysis and Review
Development Assistance, review and enforcement of a wide-range of business related contracts: Partnership Agreements, Licensing Agreements, Sale or Purchase of Goods, Vendor Contracts and Employee Contracts
Investor Representation, Venture Financing and Financial Feasibility and Validation
Asset Protection and Investment Law
Business Dissolution
General Counsel Legal Services
Contact the San Francisco Business Lawyers at the Onu Law Firm if you are in need of immediate assistance in the matters listed above.
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Case of American jailed in Cuba back in US court
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2014/09/23 21:32
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An attorney for a Maryland man who has spent over four years jailed in Cuba argued before a federal appeals court that his client should be allowed to sue the U.S. government over his imprisonment.
An attorney for Alan Gross, who was a government subcontractor when he was detained in Cuba in 2009, appeared Friday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
A lower court judge dismissed Gross' lawsuit against the government in 2013, but Gross' lawyers appealed.
Gross was arrested while setting up Internet in Cuba as part of a project for the government's U.S. Agency for International Development. Cuba considers USAID's programs illegal attempts by the U.S. to undermine its government and Gross was given a 15-year prison sentence. |
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