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... I'll skip straight to the good stuff- local newspaper editorial pages. Over at the Monterey County Herald, Marianne Means contends that the Supreme Court will lose credibility. Miss Means has an obvious liberal persuasion and I can't ... but also seems unapologetic about this fact. The court's decision in this case can be easily understood to be a complete reversal of Brown. In my opinion, this case will be remembered as a minor setback for the civil rights movement, but not the same fatal blow that ...

ORANGE COUNTY, CA- Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the arrest of Mary Alice Yraceburu and Marianne Curtis. Both women are accused of conning over one hundred people out of thousands of dollars ... loan modification services. "These scam artists coldly and heartlessly preyed on Californians desperate for help in saving their homes," Attorney General Brown said. "Homeowners in financial trouble have to be on guard against loan modification fraud, so they don't make a bad situation ...

... it to reflect her pacifist Quaker views. Citing a 1968 California appellate decision, Smith v. County Engineer, the University took the position that graduate student Marianne Kearney-Brown could not amend the oath. The University said she could sign it, and then place a separate note in her personnel file explaining her views. Kearney-Brown, however, declined that option. [Thanks to Joel Sogol via Religionlaw for the lead.]

... Criminology Author: Wilson, Robin J. ; Stewart, Lynn ; Stirpe, Tania ; Barrett, Marianne ; Cripps, Janice E. Introduction Few topics elicit the level of emotional response ... 1989), and are also lower than more recent estimates. Motiuk and Brown (1996) completed a study suggesting that the mean sexual recidivism rate for federal sexual ... offering offenders appropriate community treatment and supervision. Both the Motiuk and Brown (1996) and Barbaree et al. (1996) studies reported recidivism statistics ...

... constitutional confrontation over its requirement that all public employees sign an oath affirming that they will "support and defend" the United States and California Constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." A mathematics teacher named Marianne Kearney-Brown, who is a Quaker and a pacifist, declined to sign the loyalty oath because it might later be construed as committing her to take up arms to defend ...

... Joseph A. Greenaway and was a litigation associate with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP and with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood in New York. She received her B.A. from Columbia College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. ... recent publications include: * FAMILY LAW IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., forthcoming 2009) (with D. Marianne Blair, Merle H. Weiner, and Barbara Stark) * Taking Account of Children's Emotions: Love, Anger and Nurture After Divorce ...

... decades has emphasized the constitutive relation between law and violence, with this conference we hope to engender a new engagement with questions that may be said to be repressed in the concerted focus on the law-violence dyad. Speakers will include Jennifer Brown (Law, Quinnipiac), Marianne Constable (Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley), Jennifer Culbert (Political Science, Johns Hopkins), Anne Dailey (Law, University of Connecticut), Tom ...