140 Law - Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 2, 2013:

• The nuances of temporary layoffs in Ontario
• Panel to Review Up to 50 Trial Convictions Involving a Discredited Brooklyn Detective
• Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Petitions ABA to Require 15 Credits of Experiential Classes
• In the practicePRO Lending Library: iPad in One Hour for Litigators
• The Court’s Global Message on DOMA
• Guantanamo lawyers file lawsuit over ‘grotesque’ forced-feeding of hunger strikers
• Jury acquits in case of anti-bank messages, pic of money-grabbing octopus chalked on sidewalk
• Judge showed ‘anti-Christian bias’ by upholding yoga classes in California school: lawyer
• State appeals judge sanctioned over letter to parole board for ‘friend’
• 50 simple ways you can market your practice
• Want career satisfaction? Don’t chase money and prestige, lawyer survey suggests
• New Veterans Legal Corps will send US lawyers and law students to legal-aid groups
• "Law firm headed by son of late SCOTUS justice is embezzlement victim, prosecutors say"
• US Chief justice has advice for lawyers faced with rapid-fire questions in oral arguments
• "Ontario First Nations battling OLG over $35 million"
• "Snowden seeks asylum in Russia (Ian Swanson/The Hill)"
• "Lessons Learned From Hanging Out With 75-Year-Old Lawyers"
• "National Organization for Marriage president: Supreme Court robbed Californians"
• Hate speech no longer part of Canada’s Human Rights Act
• "Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with US government - Washington Post"
• "Supreme court rejects motion to stop California gay marriage"
• "The Real John Roberts Emerges"
• "Take Impossible "Literacy" Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s (Rebecca Onion/Slate)"
• "Democrats Get a Gift From the Roberts Court -
• "Edward Snowden: Joe Biden asks Ecuadorean president not to grant asylum"
• "Trayvon Martin: 5 key moments from first week of Zimmerman trial"
• "Federal judge blocks Michigan's ban on domestic partner benefits"
• "Vermont Law School cuts faculty by 17% due to declining applications"
• "California Couples Line Up to Marry After Stay on Same-Sex Marriage Is Lifted"
• "Religious right petitions Supreme Court to stop CA gay marriages"
• Grenada makes it a crime to offend people on Facebook, Twitter
• Judge blocks Mississippi open-carry gun law - Times Union
• California ex-wife sentenced to life for cutting off husband's penis
• Gay Couples Who Sued In California Are Married
• US Court Rules Cratfs Chain Hobby Lobby Can Be Considered a Religious 'Person'

- Elysia Cherry, Legal Assistant 

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