The Bay Citizen: Amazon Spends Millions To Fight Internet Sales Tax

Amazon is determined to overturn California’s Internet sales tax and has spent $5.25 million toward that end, even though the referendum is nine months away.

The Bay Citizen: Amazon Spends Millions to Fight Internet Sales Tax

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Out Of Debt-limit Fight, A Bit Of Stability On Spending

Lawmakers in both parties say a compromise on spending makes it unlikely Congress will be pushed back to the brink of closing the government.

Out of Debt-Limit Fight, a Bit of Stability on Spending

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Jobs’s Apple Exit Follows Eight-year Health Fight After Cancer

Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs’s exit from the top post at Apple Inc., the technology company he co-founded in 1976, follows years of health struggles that began in 2003, when he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

Jobs’s Apple Exit Follows Eight-Year Health Fight After Cancer

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Twins’ Facebook Fight Rages On

The Winklevoss twins, saying misinformation led them to agree to a $65 million deal over Facebook’s founding, want to undo the settlement.

Twins’ Facebook Fight Rages On

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Wussy White House Needs Good Snowball Fight: Margaret Carlson

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s romp through the media following the cancellation of the Philadelphia Eagles-Minnesota Vikings football game shows why he is often mentioned as just the person to bring the rarefied West Wing of the White House down to Earth.

Wussy White House Needs Good Snowball Fight: Margaret Carlson

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Government Seeks Predictive-Modeling Apps to Fight Fraud in Medicare, Medicaid

Federal government will implement predictive-modeling software to fight fraudulent claims for Medicare and Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance program.

Government Seeks Predictive-Modeling Apps to Fight Fraud in Medicare, Medicaid

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Wikileaks: Manning's attorney on the laws he'll use to fight inhumane treatment

David E. Coombs, the attorney representing Bradley Manning, discusses the laws that apply for attempting to secure more humane treatment for the young man in the Marine brig in Quantico:

The defense has raised the conditions of PFC Bradley Manning's confinement conditions on multiple occasions with the Quantico confinement facility and the Army Staff Judge Advocate's (SJA) Office assigned to handle this case. Our efforts, unfortunately, have not resulted any in positive results. To its credit, the SJA office is attempting to correct this situation. However, given the fact that Quantico is a Marine Corps facility, it has similarly had no success.

PFC Bradley Manning, unlike his civilian counterpart, is afforded no civil remedy for illegal restraint under either the Federal Civil Rights Act or the Federal Tort Claims Act. Similarly, the protection from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment and Article 55 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) does not generally apply prior to a court-martial. Thus, the only judicial recourse that is available is under Article 13 of the UCMJ. Article 13 safeguards against unlawful pretrial punishment and embodies the precept that an accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Article 13 provides that:

No person, while being held for trial, may be subjected to punishment or penalty other than arrest or confinement upon the charges pending against him, nor shall the arrest or confinement imposed upon him be any more rigorous than the circumstances required to insure his presence, but he may be subjected to minor punishment during that period for infractions of discipline.

Wikileaks: Manning's attorney on the laws he'll use to fight inhumane treatment

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Publishers Fight Back With a Communal Digital Newsstand

Eight leading dailies and weeklies in France are trying to create a single online portal.

Publishers Fight Back With a Communal Digital Newsstand

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