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		<title>Does Tasering a Pregnant Woman Over a Speeding Ticket Violate the Fourth Amendment?</title>
		<link>http://www.thecocklebur.com/supreme-court/does-tasering-a-pregnant-woman-over-a-speeding-ticket-violate-the-fourth-amendment</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Liptak at the New York Times has this great piece about a petition for certiorari asking the Court to grant a case involving some Seattle police officers, who tasered a pregnant woman because she refused to sign a speeding ticket. The police officers won on qualified immunity grounds in a divided en banc decision from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosen: pay no attention to the Constitution behind the curtain!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thecocklebur.com/uncategorized/rosen-pay-no-attention-to-the-constitution-behind-the-curtain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 16:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Sandefur</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thecocklebur.com/?p=3114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an article for The New Republic, Jeffrey Rosen writes that the recent decision in the Hettinga case has “unmasked” the continuing machinations of Rosen’s “Constitution in Exile” conspiracy. I say his conspiracy because in Rosen’s eyes, the widening circle of lawyers, judges, and law professors who are drawing attention to the many shortcomings of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seventh Circuit Throws Out Ban On Audio Recording Police Officers</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thecocklebur.com/constitutional-law/seventh-circuit-throws-out-ban-on-audio-recording-police-officers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU v. Alvarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seventh Circuit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thecocklebur.com/?p=3109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Illinois has one of the strictest laws in the country when it comes to people audio recording police officers in public. But then again, Illinois is also known for a long history of police corruption, and maybe the State thought it could prevent a few civil rights settlements by banning people from recording their interactions with police. Whatever the motivation behind the law, it doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New CockleBur Blogger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Planalp</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thecocklebur.com/?p=3073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Shon using Mathew Planalp&#8217;s user profile. Mathew recently joined Cockle Printing as a document analyst, and he is now joining the CockleBur. Mathew has a J.D. from Creighton University Law School, and he has quickly become a valuable member of the Cockle Printing staff. Please give Mathew a warm CockleBur welcome.]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions for the NBA Playoffs</title>
		<link>http://www.thecocklebur.com/sports/predictions-for-the-nba-playoffs</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 21:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Rinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dwayne Wade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Durant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeBron James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBA Playoffs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thecocklebur.com/?p=3062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Rose is out for the remainder of the playoffs, the Bulls are mere mortals in a pool of mostly mortal teams. They were able to get by through the season without the reigning MVP from last year by playing outstanding defense, allowing everyone to get involved in the offense, and playing each game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The California Bar Wants to Force Law Schools to Provide Practical Skills</title>
		<link>http://www.thecocklebur.com/law-school-2/the-california-bar-wants-to-force-law-schools-to-provide-practical-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecocklebur.com/law-school-2/the-california-bar-wants-to-force-law-schools-to-provide-practical-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 19:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Profession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The California Bar Association is considering a proposal that would require bar applicants to have taken a practical skills course during law school in order to be admitted to the bar. The Bar Association, however, has received some pushback from two prominent law school deans. Stanford Law Dean Larry Kramer urged caution. And UC Irvine Dean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beating Distribution: The Curious Math of Late Petition-Stage Filings</title>
		<link>http://www.thecocklebur.com/uncategorized/beating-distribution-the-curious-math-of-late-petition-stage-filings</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecocklebur.com/uncategorized/beating-distribution-the-curious-math-of-late-petition-stage-filings#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thecocklebur.com/?p=3038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Distribution? Very simply, distribution is the process of delivering petition-stage briefing documents to the Justices and their clerks for consideration prior to the conference. Shortly after distribution, a randomly assigned clerk in the Cert Pool (and a clerk for Justice Alito, who does not participate in the Cert Pool) will begin reviewing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Shouldn’t Bank With Wells Fargo</title>
		<link>http://www.thecocklebur.com/prisoners-2/why-you-shouldnt-bank-with-wells-fargo</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecocklebur.com/prisoners-2/why-you-shouldnt-bank-with-wells-fargo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GEO Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass incarceration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thecocklebur.com/?p=3029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are concerned about the number of citizens we as a society simply give up on by locking them up for decades, then you might want to think about not banking with Wells Fargo. Charles Davis at Salon writes that the Wells Fargo used bailout funds to invest in the GEO Group, the second largest private prison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paleo Diet Blogger Threatened With Jail Time</title>
		<link>http://www.thecocklebur.com/liberty-2/paleo-diet-blogger-threatened-with-jail-time</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecocklebur.com/liberty-2/paleo-diet-blogger-threatened-with-jail-time#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[licensing restrictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleo diet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thecocklebur.com/?p=3027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Cooksey is a former diabetic, who decided to start the popular “Paleo” diet. Not only did he lose weight, he became insulin free on the low carb, caveman diet. So he decided to share his success on his blog.  But Steve ran into a problem in the form of the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Write Like Paul Clement</title>
		<link>http://www.thecocklebur.com/briefs/five-ways-to-write-like-paul-clement</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecocklebur.com/briefs/five-ways-to-write-like-paul-clement#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shon R. Hopwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement will take the lecturn at the Supreme Court to once again argue a vexing issue of the day. This time around he will be defending Arizona&#8217;s immigration policy. By now, people are probably wondering how Mr. Clement ends up arguing so many cases before the Court. Well, [...]]]></description>
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