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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Monday, May 19, 2014

RSN: Utah May Bring Back Firing Squad, Court Protects World's Only Wild Red Wolves From Deadly Mistaken Identity, et al



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Utah May Bring Back Firing Squad
Somalian convicted murderer Adan Sheikh Abdi is executed on August 17, 2013 by a firing squad in Mogadishu. (photo: Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images)
Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor
Jonsson reports: "The question for US states facing profound problems with the lethal injection protocol mostly used today is whether to bring back the firing squad as an execution option, especially in light of the botched Oklahoma execution-by-injection of Clayton Lockett in April."
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Everyone Should Know Just How Much the Government Lied to Defend the NSA
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "If you blinked this week, you might have missed the news: two Senators accused the Justice Department of lying about NSA warrantless surveillance to the US supreme court last year, and those falsehoods all but ensured that mass spying on Americans would continue. But hardly anyone seems to care – least of all those who lied and who should have already come forward with the truth."
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Judge: Stop Force-Feeding Gitmo Prisoner
Jason Leopold, Al Jazeera America
Leopold writes: "A federal judge late Friday ordered the Obama administration to halt the force-feeding of a Guantanamo prisoner and to preserve more than 100 videos that show the captive being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed."
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Net Neutrality and the Idea of America
Tim Wu, The New Yorker
Wu writes: "You’d be excused for wondering what all the fuss is about. Most people have a rough sense that net neutrality is about the rules for Internet traffic; but the precise debates about regulatory authority and the rules themselves are abstruse. Net neutrality has seized the moment because it is standing in for a national conversation about deeper values."
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Why Our Schools Are Re-Segregating
Sally Kohn, The Daily Beast
Kohn writes: "All these years later, our schools remain deeply segregated along lines of race as well as class—with charter schools and high-stakes testing making matters worse."
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Why Are Kids Being Tried in Kangaroo Courts?
Molly Knefel, Rolling Stone
Knefel writes: "Of all the constitutional rights afforded to Americans, the right to counsel is one of the most well known. In movies and TV shows, cops recite Miranda rights immediately upon arresting anyone, informing suspects of their right to an attorney even if they cannot afford one."
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Court Protects World's Only Wild Red Wolves From Deadly Mistaken Identity
Defenders of Wildlife
Excerpt: "A federal court late yesterday issued a preliminary injunction against the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission’s authorization of coyote hunting—including by spotlight at night-- in the five county area of eastern North Carolina inhabited by the world’s only wild population of about 100 red wolves. Gunshot is the leading cause of death for the animals."
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