Federal Government & Policies
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Complaint by: Pac
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Monday, June 3, 2013
An absentee ballot coordinator for a senate campaign can distribute absentee ballot applications, provided that the campaign coordinator does not complete the absentee ballots.
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Beware Of Elites Bearing Gun Control Theories
Friday, January 18, 2013 | by Karen Lee Torre
I paraphrase one of Justice Clarence Thomas's best lines, a most devastating rebuke of the largely white liberal/lawyer/judicial class whose pretensions and pontifications about racial preferences conceal what is in actuality soft racism.
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Coollick v. Hughes
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Monday, December 3, 2012
On a motion for summary judgment, a court can dismiss a claim based on qualified immunity, if an official establishes no rational jury could conclude: 1.) that the official violated a statutory or constitutional right; and 2.) that the right was clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct.
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Gross v. Rell
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Individuals and actors can be entitled to quasi-judicial immunity from suit, to protect the judicial process.
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Veterans Say Contract Law Being Ignored
Friday, November 2, 2012 | by THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY
Douglas Fleming, a Navy veteran from Chaplin who was wounded while serving in Libya in the 1980s, wants a law that reserves contracts for wounded veterans to be followed.
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McGee v. Vazquez
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Monday, October 8, 2012
A court can find that the votes in an election were not counted correctly and publish the corrected count.
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Feud With Bridgewater First Selectman Flares Into Federal Case
Monday, September 24, 2012 | by ROBIN DeMERELL
Attorney Paul Garlasco, who practices in New Milford, and his wife owned property in Bridgewater where they wanted to build a home. But the parcel was landlocked ? that is, had no direct street access ? and so they needed a zoning variance to build the house and a driveway to it.
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CBA Votes To Join DOMA Brief
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 | by JAY STAPLETON
Connecticut Bar Association leaders have voted in favor of joining an amicus brief in support of federal benefits for same-sex couples, a decision that has drawn mixed reactions from CBA members.
