Lawyers profit from California voting rights law they drafted
The Associated Press finds that roughly 4.3 million dollars from settlements in three cases tied to California's 2002 Voting Rights Act were produced by two lawyers who wrote the statute. Joaquin Avila led drafting with advice from Robert Rubin and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
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Los Angeles
California
Associated Press
Seattle
Joaquin Avila
Robert Rubin
Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights
San Francisco Bay Area
Avila
Rubin
Committee of
Lawyers
John Stafford
Madera Unified School District
Tulare
Tulare Regional Medical Center
Hans von Spakovsky
George W. Bush
Marguerite Mary Leoni
Hanford Joint Union High
Judges grant detainees day in court at Guantanamo
U S judges in Washington DC open court for detainees from Guantanamo Bay after a Supreme Court ruling. Fifteen federal judges find government evidence lacking for thirty detainees and order their release, with dozens more facing hearings. Many detainees were seized in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the case highlights the struggle to move prisoners to other nations or prosecutions.
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Washington
Guantanamo Bay
U.S. Naval Base
Cuba
Supreme Court
U.S
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Obama
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
New York
Guantanamo
Bush Administration
Donald Rumsfeld
Gladys Kessler
Aila Ali bin Ali Ahmed
Yemen
Kessler
Taliban
al-Qaida
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah
Kuwait
Kuwaiti Airways
al- Qaida
Kandahar
Secretive Charlotte law firm backs covert health reform group
A Charlotte law firm Moore & Van Allen runs Americans for Quality and Affordable Healthcare, a behind the scenes group opposing government run insurance. operatives in Maine Nevada and Louisiana used trade groups talk radio and a conservative blog to push the cause. The sponsors remain unnamed, and the firm will not disclose financing or members. Entities include AQAH and Moore & Van Allen.
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Washington
Maine
Las Vegas
Louisiana
Charlotte
N.C
Americans For Quality and Affordable
Barack Obama
America’s
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
North Carolina
Nevada
Moore & van Allen
Matthew French
AQAH
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