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Tattered flags in West L.A. anger veteran
An upside-down American flag is considered a signal of distress. And that's the feeling Robert Rosebrock had when he looked up and noticed the red, white and blue street-lamp banners outside the Department of Veterans Affairs' West Los Angeles Medical...
Tags: U.S. Army, Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Flag Day (United States), Hospitals and Clinics
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Seattle police to join major cities using wearable cameras
ReutersBy Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE, May 12 (Reuters) - The Seattle police department, under court-sanctioned scrutiny over the use of excessive force, is set to equip at least a dozen officers with a wearable camera for a year-long trial, a senior police...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Photography Supplies and Services, Justice System, Shootings
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Bill Clinton, Laws, Civil Rights
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Lake School Board shouldn't have waited to be sued over gay-straight club
The School Board could have walked away with dignity and a reputation for fair dealing after the threat of a lawsuit to force the district to let a student form a gay-straight club at a Leesburg school. But, no. Leave it to the board to postpone the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Minority Groups, Litigation, Social Issues
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Assembly OKs bill allowing transgender students in sports
SACRAMENTO — Schools would have to allow transgender students to participate on sports teams and use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, not their sex, under a measure passed by the California Assembly on Thursday. Advocates said...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Minority Groups, Students, Social Issues, Tom Ammiano
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Speaking limits ruled 'unconstitutional'
A section of a Costa Mesa law that limits what speakers can say at City Council meetings is unconstitutional, federal justices have ruled. The law's ban on "personal, impertinent, profane, insolent or slanderous remarks" during public comment periods...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Allan R. Mansoor, U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration
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Letters: A little more light on jails
Re "An insider bashes Baca," Editorial, May 2 We strongly agree with The Times that recent news about Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca's mismanagement of the jails should push the Board of Supervisors to hire an independent inspector general to...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Prisons, Politics, Lee Baca, Elections
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Quinnipiac University Expands Sports For Women, Settles Discrimination Suit
The Hartford CourantQuinnipiac University has agreed to expand sports programs for women to settle a class-action lawsuit by female student athletes who claimed that the school denied them athletic opportunities that it offered to men. The school has promised to generally...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation, Social Issues, Trials, Quinnipiac University
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ACLU: Allentown School District walking a fine line in advising students
The day before an emotionally charged Allentown School Board meeting in March, Allen High School's student representatives were pulled into a meeting with an administrator many of them had never met. The message that Chief Academic Officer Tina...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Government Debt, Students, Freedom of the Press
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The Guantanamo dilemma
When he ran for president, Barack Obama laid out the case against the detention of inmates at Guantanamo Bay: "It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on...
Tags: White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yemen, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama
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Pregnant Cop's Case Highlights Discrimination Law
The Hartford CourantPregnant women are among the people protected by state and federal anti-discrimination laws, and one of the key rules says employers must make a reasonable effort to find suitable work for women whose pregnancy keeps them from their normal line of duty....Tags: Lawyers, Social Issues, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, Laws, Discrimination
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Brown's prison plan faces hard questions in Legislature
Gov. Jerry Brown's "ugly" proposal to federal judges to partially ease prison crowding by leasing empty jail beds in the state drew dismay from advocates on both sides of the criminal justice debate and a forecast of "dubious prospects" from a legislative...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Bob Huff, Regional Authority, Prisons, Government
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