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Sharron Angle hit with R-J copyright infringement lawsuit - Las Vegas Sun

The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s copyright infringement lawsuit partner on Friday sued U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle over R-J material posted on her website, allegedly without authorization.

…Steve Friess, a Las Vegas freelancer writer and columnist for Las Vegas Weekly, a sister newspaper to the Las Vegas Sun, has been supportive of Righthaven because Friess has seen material owned by him and other freelancers infringed on.

In a blog post last month, Friess said Righthaven had to sue Angle. Friess posted several screenshots of R-J stories on…

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Obama vs. Arizona

The Obama administration slapped Arizona with a lawsuit on Tuesday, saying the state stepped on the federal government’s toes by passing a get-tough-on-immigration law. That’s our job, the U.S.

…/ The suit asks the court to block the Arizona law from taking effect July 29. Besides usurping federal authority, the government argues, SB 1070 invites racial profiling by instructing police to demand proof of residence from anyone they suspect is in the country illegally. Neither argument is a slam dunk. In similar cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has found that states acted within the scope of their authority. And a court isn’t likely to act on the racial profiling claim before any profiling has occurred.That’s all the more reason for a renewed sense of urgency on immigration reform, as signaled by Obama in a speech last week. The president called the Arizona law misguided and warned that a patchwork of 50 different laws would be disastrous. But he also called on Congress to overhaul the dysfunctional immigration system that encourages states to take matters into their own hands.Americans agree overwhelmingly that the system is broken, but they disagree loudly on how to fix it. Arizona’s approach called…

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