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This week’s library hours: Monday – Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Regular hours resume on Monday, March 17.

Legal news and items of interest from last week: Jan Brewer vetoed Arizona’s religious freedom bill (Al Jazeera) The U.S. will seek extradition of the world’s most wanted drug lord(ABA Journal) A federal district judge struck down Texas’s ban on gay marriage. Not surprisingly, Texas will appeal (SCOTUSblog) After being ripped off by his lawyers, a Florida man moves into…
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Legal news and items of interest from last week: Let’s hope that this marks a permanent end to the violence in Ukraine (NPR) Oregon’s AG decides not to defend the state’s ban on gay marriage (Bloomberg) While AZ is busy moving in the other direction (CNN) The FCC is looking to counter the effect of DC Circuit’s net neutrality ruling by…
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Legal news and items of interest from last week: A federal judge found Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional (AP/NYT) The governor of Washington implemented a moratorium on the death penalty (NPR) On the legality of a comedian’s “Dumb Starbucks” venture (Freakonomics) A very-much-alive woman argues with bank when it tells her she is dead (WSJ Law Blog) AK47-wielding banana man cited for advertising…
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News and items of interest from last week: Eric Holder extends rights of same-sex couples that are already married (SCOTUSBlog) Alex Rodriguez drops suit based on season long MLB ban (with nifty interactive timeline of PED use in baseball) (Al Jazeera) “Why a Railroad Merger May Get the Supreme Court to Rule on NSA Spying” (Wired)…
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The Lexis ID registration system will be down from Friday, February 7th, 7:00 p.m. until Monday, February 17th, 7:00 a.m. CST.  ID registration will be unavailable during this time.  Registration will be available again after 7:00 a.m. on Monday, February 17th.  This outage will not affect students who have already registered for Lexis. If you…
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News and items of interest from last week: Maine Supreme Court rules in favor of transgender rights in 5th grade bathroom case (Bangor Daily News) The Super Bowl Shuffle is still making news: former Bears bring litigation in hopes of creating a “trust  . . for charitable purposes” (BusinessWire) Overwhelmed immigration judge decides cases in…
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