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    <title>NYC Transit Authority forbids drivers from calling police? - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8892</id>

    <published>2012-01-11T13:46:29Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-11T13:46:49Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Eric Turkewitz confirms that this is an official policy (via Overlawyered), and that it appears to be litigation-driven&mdash;though, as Turkewitz argues, it may end up increasing civil liability to New York taxpayers in addition to the obvious increased threats to...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>Wherein George Soros wastes his money - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8891</id>

    <published>2012-01-11T12:53:57Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-11T12:53:44Z</updated>

    <summary>At Media Matters, David Lyle is critical of my post about Michael Greve&apos;s new paper. But he exhibits no evidence of having read Greve&apos;s paper: he just asserts that it&apos;s wrong, without addressing the Commerce Clause issues Greve raises, much...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>Capriccioso on Cobell appeal - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8889</id>

    <published>2012-01-10T13:27:39Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-10T13:25:17Z</updated>

    <summary>Indian Country Today looks at the latest filings in the Cobell v. Salazar appeal. It&apos;s worth noting that, notwithstanding fulminations from the plaintiffs&apos; attorneys, the appeal hasn&apos;t yet delayed the settlement at all: even if there had been no appeal,...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>That $285 million Delaware award by Strine - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8888</id>

    <published>2012-01-10T13:15:26Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-10T13:36:14Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Leo Strine has a reputation for scrutinizing fee awards more closely than most. So it was a surprise when, last month, he approved a $285 million fee award&mdash;amounting to $35,000/hour for 8000 hours of work&mdash;to...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>The myth of the pro-business Supreme Court (continued) - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8887</id>

    <published>2012-01-09T17:23:42Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-11T12:55:10Z</updated>

    <summary>I&apos;ve on several occasions expressed impatience with the inaccurate myth that the Supreme Court is unreasonably pro-business: December 2010; March 2011; June 2011; July 2011, etc. A new must-read paper by Michael Greve, forthcoming in the Charleston Law Review, tackles...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>The First Amendment and Corporate Governance  - articles</title>
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    <id>tag:pointoflaw.com,2012:/articles//12.8885</id>

    <published>2012-01-09T15:52:14Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-09T15:57:22Z</updated>

    <summary>ABSTRACT</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bridget Carroll</name>
        
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    <title>PROXY MONITOR REPORT: A Report on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism  - articles</title>
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    <id>tag:pointoflaw.com,2012:/articles//12.8884</id>

    <published>2012-01-09T15:50:46Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-09T16:01:57Z</updated>

    <summary>REPORT</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bridget Carroll</name>
        
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    <title>REGULATION BY PROSECUTION: The Problems with Treating Corporations as Criminals  - articles</title>
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    <id>tag:pointoflaw.com,2012:/articles//12.8886</id>

    <published>2012-01-09T14:59:15Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-09T16:01:07Z</updated>

    <summary>REPORT</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bridget Carroll</name>
        
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    <title>January 9 Jakadrien Turner update - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8883</id>

    <published>2012-01-09T12:41:47Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-09T12:34:26Z</updated>

    <summary>Jakadrien Turner has returned to the United States, and, though it&apos;s now clear that the mistaken deportation was entirely her fault (she fooled her own criminal defense attorney; waived the right to an attorney and to contest her deportation hearing;...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>&quot;Missouri lawyers weigh in on class action concerns&quot; - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8882</id>

    <published>2012-01-09T12:15:50Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-09T12:15:09Z</updated>

    <summary>I&apos;m not a Missouri lawyer, but I&apos;m quoted in a Missouri Lawyers Media story on class action settlements, though not given a chance to rebut the ludicrous claim of the plaintiffs&apos; lawyer that the objection to the rip-off Bachman v....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America - books</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012:/books//9.8880</id>

    <published>2012-01-06T21:11:02Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-06T21:16:19Z</updated>

    <summary></summary>
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        <name>pol admin</name>
        
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    <title>DC Circuit briefing in Cobell v. Salazar complete - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8881</id>

    <published>2012-01-06T17:53:08Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-09T14:48:37Z</updated>

    <summary>Opening brief Plaintiffs&apos; response brief Government response brief Appellants&apos; reply brief Competitive Enterprise Institute amicus brief Indian Land Tenure Foundation amicus brief Oral argument is scheduled for February 16....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>Legitimacy of Cordray confirmation under the microscope - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8878</id>

    <published>2012-01-06T13:15:00Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-06T17:40:34Z</updated>

    <summary>On December 8, 2011, after Senate Republicans blocked the confirmation of Richard Cordray, former Ohio attorney general nominated to serve as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama vowed that his administration would not give up...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Isaac Gorodetski</name>
        
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    <title>Jakadrien Turner update - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8879</id>

    <published>2012-01-06T12:47:46Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-06T00:51:02Z</updated>

    <summary>If you were betting on the true story of what happened to the 14-year-old American citizen deported to Colombia, I hope you paid attention to my odds-making. ABC News reports:An ICE official told ABC News that people who do enter...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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    <title>Rights restrictions and new media - PointOfLaw Forum</title>
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    <id>tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8877</id>

    <published>2012-01-05T17:39:45Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-05T17:40:07Z</updated>

    <summary>The absence of mandatory licensing means that contracts for music rights drafted years ago that failed to contemplate the ways new technology could be used adversely affect the quality of &quot;ports&quot; of movies to DVD or online-computer viewing. At NPR,...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Ted Frank</name>
        
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