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What are your legal rights to defend yourself in the event you are accidentally caught in one of these protests? (GA here)

Almost every time I speak at a college or law school campus, there are one or two audience members whose mother or father is a police officer or a prosecutor. I always ask them: What did your parents tell you about dealing with the police? Every one of them, without exception, has told me the same thing: My parents in law enforcement taught me years ago that I should never talk to the police, or agree to let them interview me about anything, or let them search my car or my apartment or my backpack without a warrant. You need...

Babies and children being brought to bars seems to be a rage that is slowly creeping across the nation and with it a number of legal, moral, and parental responsibility issues. CNN recently had a story showing a bar in Brooklyn that appeared to have an open policy for admitting the wee tykes into the establishment along with their alcohol thirsting parents. Now there is a growing debate throughout the nation and the Metro Detroit area dealing with the appropriateness of whether it is responsible parenting to bring a baby or child into a bar. It is of trivial import...

Note: The following text is a quote: WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2010 – A joint task force in Afghanistan is working hard to make sure detention operations are in order, the officer in charge of that effort said today. “We maintain the legitimacy of detention as a warfighting tool, and this requires that we demonstrate our commitment to transparency, the rule of law, and to individual human dignity,” Navy Vice Adm. Robert S. Harward, commander of Joint Task Force 435, said during a “"DoDLive" bloggers roundtable. Defense Secretary Robert Gates established the task force in September to oversee detainee review processes,...

<p>Gay couples around the Bay Area and California are cheering a vote in the state Assembly last week to provide same-sex partners with nearly every legal right that married couples have.</p> <p>If approved by the state Senate and signed by Gov. Gray Davis later this year, the measure, sponsored by Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, D-Los Angeles, and supported by many Bay Area Democrats, would put California at the forefront of gay rights in the United States, just behind Vermont, which has legalized a form of gay marriage known as ``civil unions.''</p>