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• Google takes us all to law school

  You can now search Google Scholar to find opinions by searching specific cases (like Gideon v. Wainwright) or topics (like free speech). You can type a phrase like "right to counsel" and get results for cases in which such a phrase is in included.
  
  Google thinks being able [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:53am EST
  

• Low-wage workers are often cheated, study says

  Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according to a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
  
  The study, the most comprehensive examination of wage-law violations in a decade, also found that 68% of the [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:37am EST
  

• Can a wiki help homeless services collaborate?

  Tampa Bay Homeless Resource is a collaborative website for advocates, service providers, government and citizens to share and find help, services, resources, news and volunteer opportunities to help end homelessness in Tampa Bay.
  
  Started by the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County to be a vast collection of Tampa [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:56pm EST
  

• Suspect in homeless man's murder allowed to leave his house for one hour a day

  
  
  
  
  Joel Boner (center) was attacked outside his tent at an Ocoee homeless camp and stabbed in the back as many as seven times.
  
  
  For three months, murder suspect John Hawthorne has been confined to his family's Ocoee home, forbidden to go [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:56am EST
  

• 30 years later, she finds her father living on the streets of St. Petersburg

  
  
  For decades, Carl Schmidlin kept a photo of a daughter he hadn’t seen in 30 years. He lost the photo but has reconnected with the daughter.
  
  
  Jenna Lombardi was 3 when Carl Schmidlin left. She didn't know he even existed until she was' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• “I’m proud to go to jail for housing the homeless”

  
  
  
  
  
  A defiant Dan de Vaul stretched out his arms and let deputies place handcuffs on him before being led out of the courtroom.
  
  
  A Central California rancher who houses homeless people on his property has been sentenced to 90 days [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:32pm EST
  

• Church sells Tiffany window to help the homeless

  
  
  
  
  
  
  The stained glass window depicts St. John the Divine and was created by the Tiffany Studios. It was installed in the church in 1896.
  
  
  Proceeds from the sale of a Tiffany stained glass window will be used to [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:44pm EST
  

• But how do I tweet without my cellphone?

  A federal judge has banned tweeting in his courtroom, ruling that it violates Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53.*
  
  When I go to the federal courthouse in Orlando, I have to leave my cellphone in the car (unless I've obtained a special order from one of the judges' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

• UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless

  A United Nations special investigator has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as "invisible" a deepening homeless crisis.
  
  Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur for the right to adequate housing, who has just completed a seven-city tour [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:52am EST
  

• Why a church is banned from feeding the needy

  The kitchen is closed at a Phoenix church that fed the homeless.
  
  CrossRoads United Methodist Church lost an appeal over a city ordinance that bans charity dining halls in residential neighborhoods.
  
  The hearing officer, retired Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Corcoran, ruled that feeding the homeless at [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:31pm EST
  

• Do laws against camping in public spaces amount to cruel and unusual punishment?

  Seven homeless Boise residents are suing the city and the police department, saying that rules against camping in public spaces amount to cruel and unusual punishment in a city where shelters are overflowing.
  
  The lawsuit, filed in federal court, echoes similar cases popping up around the nation, all targeting [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:42pm EST
  

• Court ruling "basically knocks our legal arguments out right underneath us"

  
  Johnny Lee Smith holds a sign asking for donations as he stands on the side of a road in Medford, Oregon.
  
  
  The city of Medford, Oregon, has backed away from appealing a court decision that found the city's panhandling law unconstitutional. But the city's [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:13am EST
  

• Business owners plan memorial for homeless man

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Business owners in Fort Lauderdale repeatedly tried to convince Douglas Schutt to stop boozing and living outdoors, but he refused.
  
  
  Business owners on Las Olas Boulevard knew him as a helpful, homeless man who washed cars [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:20am EST
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:30pm EST
  

• Jury awards $41K to homeless victim of frat shooting

  A jury awarded $41,421.06 in damages to a homeless man who was shot by an Oregon State University fraternity member in 2006. Dennis Sanderson, who since has found lodging, will receive $6,421.06 for his medical expenses and $35,000 for non-economic damages.
  
  The jury found that the Association of Alpha [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:28pm EST
  

• Teens plead not guilty in YouTube beatdown of homeless man

  Two teen-agers charged with an attack on a homeless man in Pompano Beach that was filmed and posted online have pleaded not guilty.
  
  Those men -- Nicholas Bakum, 19, of Lighthouse Point, and William Sleight, 19, of Deerfield Beach -- are among four suspects accused of roughing up 54-year-old [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:56am EST
  

• A twisted tale of government getting in its own way

  To see a twisted tale of government getting in its own way, look no further than Palm Beach County's efforts to turn $7.5 million in federal stimulus money into a homeless center.
  
  Federal restrictions on the Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant are so confining as to make success nearly' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:38am EST
  

• Holidays soup up the debate about feeding Gainesville's homeless

  Public outcry against city laws limiting how many destitute people can be served at any one location is reverberating in Gainesville as the city's largest meal provider on Thanksgiving and Christmas grapples with a 130-meal limit.
  
  Kent Vann, executive director of the St. Francis House homeless shelter and soup' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:34am EST