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		<title>NYC Judge Rules Airbnb Rental Is An &#8220;Illegal Hotel&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/21/nyc-judge-rules-airbnb-rental-is-an-illegal-hotel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Airbnb, a site that lets people around the world find short-term housing accommodations, suffered a major setback this month when a judge ruled that one of its users broke an &#8220;illegal hotel&#8221; law in New York City. The trouble began last September, when Nigel Warren rented out his bedroom in his East Village apartment on Airbnb for three days. Even though his roommate was home and there was no reported misbehavior, New York City&#8217;s special enforcement officers slapped fines of more than $40,000 on Warren&#8217;s landlord for violating illegal transient hotel rules, according to the New York Times. New York City law restricts residents from renting out apartments, or rooms in them, for fewer than 30 days, unless they are also living in the home during the guests&#8217; stay. (MORE: Car Sharing: Future Looks Bright, Even With Some Cloudy Legal Issues) On May 9, Judge Clive Morrick ruled in favor of the city, reasoning that since the Airbnb host had &#8220;complete strangers&#8221; residing in his apartment during the stay, Warren&#8217;s landlord was indeed operating an unlicensed hotel and has to pay a fine of $2,400. (Warren agreed to pay the fines on behalf of his landlord in order to avoid eviction.) No stranger to similar controversies in other cities, Airbnb released a statement saying it will continue to fight the legal battle. While its terms of service say that users are fully liable for complying with local laws, the company maintains that New York City&#8217;s laws are not aimed at individual tenants, but instead at preventing landlords from buying residential buildings and operating them as hotels, reports CNN Money. The San Francisco-based company, which currently operates in over 33,000 cities in 192 countries, has raised the ire of authorities elsewhere — most recently in Amsterdam, where the main issue is that local laws, such as paying tourist taxes, are circumvented with Airbnb transactions. (MORE: Airbnb Gets More Social, Aspirational and Beautiful with Wish Lists) Since New York City’s mayor’s office of special enforcement began carefully scrutinizing short-term rental issues in 2006, it has received more than 3,000 complaints, conducted nearly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=209058&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can &#8216;Boston Strong&#8217; Be Trademarked?</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/25/can-boston-strong-be-trademarked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It didn&#8217;t take long for opportunists to find ways to make a buck off the Boston bombing. But now, more than a week after the attacks, many of those eager to capitalize on the tragedy have taken their products off shelves. However, there&#8217;s probably more to come: two separate Massachusetts-based applicants filed requests with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the phrase &#8220;Boston Strong&#8221; just two days after the attacks. Both parties claim to have filed with good intentions, requesting to use the words for clothing and accessories. One is an individual, Kerim Senkal. An Allston, Mass., delivery worker and father of two young boys, Senkal says he got the idea from his regular deliveries to an office that has screen-printing machines. He tells TIME that he will &#8220;give 100 percent of the profits to the One Fund,&#8221; a charity created by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Menino to help the families affected by the tragedy. (MORE: 10 Good Things that Happened This Week) The other applicant is a t-shirt company called Born Into It, Inc. The owner, Ryan Gormady, told the Huffington Post that he filed because he was concerned that someone outside the Boston area would try to grab the trademark instead.  &#8221;It&#8217;s more to indemnify and protect ourselves and our colleagues and partners,&#8221; says Gormady. The company reportedly states on its blog it will &#8220;donate 20 percent of revenue from all Boston-related merchandise sold April 15 through April 30 to The One Fund.&#8221; But Josh Gerben, a Washington, D.C., trademark attorney, believes the applications are fairly pointless. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the words &#8220;Boston Strong&#8221; have become so ubiquitous that the Patent Office would most likely consider them to be in the public domain, and thus impossible to associate with any particular company or individual. After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, the government wouldn&#8217;t grant anyone the exclusive rights to the phrase 9/11, Gerben explained to the Huffington Post. Whether or not the applicants have a viable case, it will likely take the office several months for the requests to be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=205443&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paralyzed British Man Fights for the Right to Die</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/22/paralyzed-british-man-fights-for-the-right-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Lamb has been almost completely paralyzed for more than 20 years of his 58 years, and he&#8217;s had enough. In the latest right to die debate to hit the U.K., Lamb has joined forces with the family of &#8220;locked-in&#8221; syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson — whose waged a public battle to end his life and died last August after his petition for assisted suicide was rejected. &#8221;In my mind the severely disabled are being blatantly discriminated against,&#8221;Nicklinson&#8217;s wife told BBC Breakfast. &#8221;Why shouldn&#8217;t they have the same rights as everyone else? There would obviously be huge safeguards put in place so that people are protected.&#8221; (MORE: ‘Locked-In Syndrome’ Sufferer Tony Nicklinson Takes His Fight to Die onto Twitter) In a statement made to the court, Lamb said he has been in pain for 23 years and needs 24-hour care. Because he is so extensively paralyzed,  he would need a doctor&#8217;s assistance to end his life. But any such assistance would be considered as  homicide, according to BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman. Lamb claims that he is not depressed and just wants to end his life in a dignified way, with his loved ones around him, reports the BBC. In response to Lamb&#8217;s appeal, an anti-euthanasia group, Care Not Killing, said in a statement: &#8220;We must not allow ourselves to be swayed by his tragic personal circumstances into welcoming a legal change that would have such dangerous repercussions for so many vulnerable elderly and disabled people.&#8221; A British court will hear Lamb&#8217;s and Nicklinson&#8217;s cases next month. The BBC reports that Lamb is asking for a judicial ruling that any doctor who killed him would have a defense of acting to stop intolerable suffering. In England, assisted suicide is illegal and those convicted can be sentenced up to 14 years in prison. (MORE: Jack Kevorkian) <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=204682&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mansion Caretaker Sued for Drinking $102,000 of Historical Whiskey</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/25/mansion-caretaker-sued-for-drinking-102000-of-historical-whiskey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Locker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The butler did it. It&#8217;s the common trope in old mysteries, but in this case, it was the caretaker. John Saunders, 62, the former live-in caretaker of a Pittsburgh-area mansion, now faces criminal charges for allegedly drinking the owner&#8217;s stash of historical whiskey &#8212; and faces a hefty bar tab to pay off. The price tag for his drink? More than $100,000. But it&#8217;s a crime with little proof &#8212; old whiskey is known to evaporate if not stored or sealed appropriately. So how did authorities determine it was him? DNA left on the mouth of the bottles gave up the ruthless tippler. (MORE: Is This the Most Expensive Vacation of All Time?) The home&#8217;s owner, Patricia Hill, had found the whiskey during an extensive remodel of a turn-of-the-century mansion she had purchased and was turning into a bed and breakfast. The nine cases of Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey were found hidden in the walls and stairwell of the house, which was built by J.P. Brennan, a coal and coke industrialist. “My guess is that Mr. Brennan ordered 10 cases … pre-Prohibition,” Hill told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “I was told by his family that family members used to greet him at the door each day with a shot of whiskey.” Hill stored the whiskey trove with plans of preserving it, but when the caretaker moved out, she discovered dozens of bottles were now empty. While Saunders initially denied the charges, a DNA test proved that he had been sipping straight from several of the bottles. Now Saunders is accused of drinking 52 bottles worth of historical whiskey, which was bottled in 1912 at the nearby West Overton Distilling Co. and valued at $102,400 by a New York auction house. Saunders has been charged with receiving stolen property and theft. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. MORE: Thousands of Gallons of Whiskey Dumped Down the Drain in Scotland MORE: Snacks of the 1%: Introducing Gold-Infused Cheese<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=201023&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Town Wants to Make Gun Ownership Mandatory</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/08/georgia-town-wants-to-make-gun-ownership-mandatory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget the debate over gun control for a moment: How would you feel if your city suddenly made it illegal not to own a firearm? (MORE: Arkansas Woman Attempts to Flee Police on Power Wheels Toy Truck) A small town in northwest Georgia has proposed just that, arguing that a single police officer isn&#8217;t enough to protect its 1,314 residents, reports WSB-TV. The trouble is that Nelson, Ga. spans two counties: Pickens to the north and Cherokee to the south, a situation that results in just one police officer available to patrol the city during the day, leaving it unguarded for 16 hours each night. A call to police still gets results from county sheriffs, but city leaders say response times can be slow. The solution? Gun-up or else, at least if city councilman Duane Cronic has his druthers. &#8220;Every head of household will own and maintain a firearm,&#8221; said Cronic, though he claims it&#8217;s intended more as a deterrent, adding &#8220;It tells the potential intruder you better think twice.&#8221; Would there be exceptions? Yes, reports WSB-TV: If you&#8217;re not mentally or physically capable of using a gun, a felon or you object on religious grounds. Still, Nelson residents like Lamar Kellett are having none of it: &#8220;This is big government at its worst. Government mandating what a free individual can and will have in his home,&#8221; he said. But wait, haven&#8217;t we seen this story before? Indeed: Maybe you remember Kennesaw, Ga., a city of just under 30,000 that already has an ordinance on the books &#8212; passed back in 1982 &#8212; requiring that each household own a minimum of one firearm plus ammunition. But as Bloomberg notes (via Newser), it&#8217;s not really enforced; according to estimates, only half the town is in compliance. MORE: LEGOs (No Really, LEGOs) Behind West Virginia Highway Shutdown<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=198784&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great White Sharks Are Now Protected under California Law</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/04/great-white-sharks-are-now-protected-under-california-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristene Quan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some good news for the ocean&#8217;s greatest predator: great white sharks are now protected by California&#8217;s Endangered Species Act, NBC News reported. Under the act, the world’s largest predatory fish may not be hunted, pursued or killed off the coast of California, and anyone caught harming one could face criminal prosecution. Three environmental groups asked the state&#8217;s Department of Fish and Wildlife to add the great white at the beginning of February.  They presented data to members of the California Fish and Game Commission indicating that in 2011 and 2012, the number of adult and juvenile great whites found in the area&#8217;s two main feeding grounds was less than 340, according to Reuters. (WATCH: Shark Bites Another Shark) Great whites have been off-limits to commercial and sport fishing under California law since 1994, Reuters noted.  However, the fish, particularly young ones, still wind up as “bycatch” in gill-nets intended for halibut, swordfish and white sea bass off of California and Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.  Such bycatch, also known as &#8220;incidental taking,&#8221; has been unrestricted. The shark’s new status means special permits will be required for scientific research and in the case of accidental capture. Scientists consider the West Coast population of the shark to be “genetically distinct” and isolated from other great whites around the world, and according to Reuters are thought to exist in fewer numbers than those of Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Atlantic. (MORE: Loved Ones Salute New Zealand Dad Killed by Shark) The protection for great white sharks is part of the species&#8217; consideration for listing as an endangered species. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife may decide to add sharks to its endangered list by early 2014, according to NBC News.  Australia and South Africa have already listed their great whites as endangered.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=197965&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man Accused of Fraud After Taking Wife’s Last Name</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/03/man-accused-of-fraud-after-taking-wifes-last-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristene Quan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Lazaro Sopena got married, he took his wife’s last name as “an act of love,” he said; in return, the state of Florida suspended his driver’s license for fraud, according to Reuters. The real estate investor, who was born in Cuba but moved to the U.S. in 1984, told the news service that he didn’t have “emotional ties” to his last name. So, he offered to change his name after marrying Hanh Dinh in 2011 to help his wife’s Vietnamese family sustain their surname. The 40-year-old was initially issued a new driver&#8217;s license when he went to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) with his marriage license and $20 fee — the same requirements for a married woman when she changes her name on her license, should she choose, Reuters reported. But more than a year later, he received a letter from the state accusing him of “obtaining a driving license by fraud” and told him that his license would be suspended. The letter was addressed to Lazaro Dinh. (MORE: Why an Icelandic Girl Named ‘Light Breeze’ Isn’t Legally Allowed to Use Her Own Name) Dinh called the Florida DMV office in Tallahassee to rectify the situation, according to Reuters, and was told to go to court first to change his name legally — a process that takes several months and has a $400 filing fee. When he explained he was changing his name because he had gotten married, the DMV’s answer: “That only works for women.” Dinh’s lawyer told Reuters: “Apparently the state of Florida clings to the outdated notion that treats women as an extension of a man.” Only nine states have gender-neutral laws pertaining to marriage surname changes allowing a man to change his name after marriage in the same manner as a woman: California, New York, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Iowa, Georgia and North Dakota, according to Salon. Florida has no such law, but as Reuters noted, the DMV’s website doesn’t specify gender. On Jan. 14, the DMV confirmed that Dinh’s license was suspended for fraud. However, the Florida DMV eventually<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=193225&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado Middle School Student Brings Pot Brownies to Class</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/28/colorado-middle-school-student-brings-pot-brownies-to-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristene Quan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been two months since Colorado approved Amendment 64 – the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults – last November, and the city of Loveland, Colo. has had to deal with its fair share of incidents involving youth possession and distribution of the drug.  But the latest is taking city officials by surprise: A middle school student is accused of bringing pot brownies to class, according to CBS 4 Denver. During a city council meeting last week, Loveland’s police chief revealed that his department was investigating a case where a middle school student in the Thompson School District brought marijuana-laced brownies to class, reported the CBS affiliate. (MORE: 187,000 Lb. of Marijuana Annually? Legal Pot Business to Bloom in Washington) According to the website of the local Reporter-Herald, Police Chief Luke Hecker refrained from commenting on the case, citing the ongoing investigation; the name of the student and the name of the school are being withheld. The student involved is accused of sharing medical marijuana edibles with fellow students, according to ABC 7 News. Amendment 64 leaves the enforcement of laws against the retail distribution of marijuana up to the discretion of local communities, and Hecker used the council meeting to urge that Loveland&#8217;s city counselors prohibit marijuana sales, the Reporter-Herald said. The marijuana edibles the student allegedly brought to class were reportedly legally obtained, according to the Reporter-Herald. But while the new law legalizes the possession of up to 1 oz. of marijuana for people over 21 years old, cannabis remains illegal for anyone under 21 to possess or use. And no matter whether marijuana is intended for medical or recreational use, schools in the district remain drug-free zones. (MORE: New Research Questions Marijuana’s Impact in Lowering IQ) A conviction for violating these drug-free rules could bring a minimum five-year jail sentence, according to CBS 4 Denver. Thompson School District spokesman Michael Hausmann said he couldn’t disclose whether the student had been suspended because the district doesn’t comment on disciplinary procedures, reported ABC 7 News. However, the “code of conduct” section of the district’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=192280&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Digs: Squatter Claims Ownership of $2.5 Million Florida Mansion</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/28/cheap-digs-squatter-claims-ownership-of-2-5-million-florida-mansion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A $2.5 million South Florida mansion has been taken over by a crafty squatter and the police are powerless to order an eviction. The 7,500 square-foot residence in Boca Raton, Fla., is currently being inhabited by Brazilian national André Barbosa. The 23-year-old is using an antiquated legal covenant called “adverse possession” that allows a vacant property’s title to be acquired by anyone openly occupying and maintaining the site and paying real estate tax for seven years. (MORE: Has America Become a Nation of Squatters?) “Nobody’s happy – we all spent a lot of money to live on this street,” a neighbor told ABC News. “This guy is trying to pull something.” However, Bank of America, which foreclosed on the property at 580 Golden Harbour Drive in July, has now issued a legal challenge to eject Barbosa as well as collect $15,000 in legal fees and compensation. The five-bedroom waterfront home had sat unoccupied for around 18 months before the current “tenant” took possession and filed papers to contend ownership at Florida’s Property Appraisers Office. Barbosa, who goes by the nickname “Loki boy,” posted a signed copy of his legal claim in the front window of the house, according to the Florida Sun Sentinel. Cases of adverse possession being used by squatters to acquire real estate have spiked since the economic downturn. A total of 38 such claims have been made to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser over the past three years, reports the Palm Beach Post. However, American judges aren&#8217;t always sympathetic to adverse possession claimants. David Cooper, 26, was found guilty of burglary and theft in Tarrant County, Texas, in November after he tried to use the law to take ownership of a $400,000 house in North Arlington. (VIDEO: Slab City, Here We Come: Living Life Off the Grid in California&#8217;s Badlands)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=192311&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Decides Home Isn&#8217;t a Boat, Even if It Floats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the things the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on, this may not be the weirdest, but it&#8217;s up there. Is a 60-by-12 foot Florida home that happens to float on water &#8212; that&#8217;s it in the picture, attached to a towboat &#8212; a house or a vessel? Just a home, it turns out, says the Court, which ruled 7-2 on Tuesday that the two-story, motor home-like structure that was at one point parked in a Riviera Beach, Fla.,  marina can&#8217;t be seized under U.S. maritime law and destroyed. (MORE: New Report: Is Jimmy Hoffa Buried in a Shallow Michigan Grave?) Well, shouldn&#8217;t have been, anyway. Though the ruling was a victory for homeowner Fane Lozman and a major upset for the city of Riviera Beach, Lozman&#8217;s home had already been seized and destroyed after he resisted paying $3,040 in court-ordered dockage fees. Lozman says he&#8217;s been fighting the city over the matter for six-and-a-half years. &#8220;Not every floating structure is a &#8216;vessel&#8217;,&#8221; wrote Justice Stephen Breyer for the majority (via Reuters). &#8221;To state the obvious, a wooden washtub, a plastic dishpan, a swimming platform on pontoons, a large fishing net, a door taken off its hinges, or Pinocchio (when inside the whale) are not &#8216;vessels&#8217;.&#8221; What can Lozman do now that his floating abode&#8217;s been scuppered? Seek compensation, of course: The ruling reverses a previous one in the lower court which had upheld the city&#8217;s fees. (MORE: Cleaning Woman Steals Train, Crashes It Into House) The decision has broader implications, too (which, no doubt, is in part why justices heard it): Riverboat casinos have argued for years that they shouldn&#8217;t be subject to U.S. maritime laws on top of state licensing laws and regulations. According to Lozman&#8217;s lawyer, Jeffrey Fisher, a Stanford University law professor, the ruling restricts maritime rules and regulations to issues that &#8220;genuinely involve maritime commerce and transportation.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=190470&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nation&#8217;s First &#8216;Gun Appreciation Day&#8217; Is Coming at a Bad Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan Feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is awkward: Some Americans are celebrating Gun Appreciation Day on Jan. 19 &#8212; two days before President Obama&#8217;s second inauguration, nine days after a teenager opened fire at a California high school, the same week as the one-month anniversary of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting and the same month as the second anniversary of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Tuscon, Ariz. But Gun Appreciation Day isn&#8217;t a long-standing tradition with poor timing. Nope, Gun Appreciation Day is happening for the very first time this year, and it&#8217;s a direct response to recent national conversations about gun control following a year of high-profile mass murders. (MORE: TSA Confiscates Record Number of Guns at U.S. Airports in 2012) The Washington Post reports that gun supporters behind the event are modeling the program after the tactics of marriage equality opponents, such as Mike Huckabee&#8217;s national Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day in response to the backlash the fast-food chain experienced from same-sex marriage advocates. Nearly a dozen organizations, including the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, are encouraging supporters to shop at gun stores and visit shooting ranges in protest over potential crackdowns. Support for gun control is actually at an all-time high right now, according to a CBS News poll conducted last month. Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe gun control laws should be stricter, the highest percentage in a decade and an 18-point jump from a similar poll conducted earlier this year. In April, 39 percent of Americans supported stricter gun laws. Following the shooting of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, 47 percent of Americans wanted stricter laws. (MORE: Walmart&#8217;s On-Again, Off-Again Relationship with Guns) President Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden to lead a White House task force examining current gun policies in the aftermath of December&#8217;s Newtown rampage, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. Biden met with National Rife Association lobbyist James Jay Baker, and he also is meeting with members of the video game industry to talk about images of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=189972&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gérard Depardieu Skips DUI Trial in France. Next Stop, Russia?</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/09/gerard-depardieu-skips-dui-trial-in-france-next-stop-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correction Appended Jan. 9, 2013 The spectacularly dysfunctional relationship between movie star Gérard Depardieu and his native France became even more troubled Jan. 8, when the actor snubbed a Paris court waiting to try him on drunk-driving charges. That pointed no-show follows Depardieu’s controversial decision in December to take up residence in Belgium to protest rising income taxes in France and his equally surprising acceptance this month of an offer of Russian citizenship. In fact, about the only place Depardieu isn’t getting cozy with these days is France. His failure to appear before judges in Paris on Tuesday sends his DUI charge to criminal court, meaning Depardieu now has reasons beyond high French taxes to avoid his homeland: a possible two-year prison sentence should he be convicted, for starters. (MORE: C’est It Ain’t So Gégé: French Actor Depardieu Reportedly Seeks Tax Refuge in Belgium) Depardieu’s Tuesday hearing was intended to be a quick judicial formality under France’s version of plea bargaining. The case arose from a minor accident Depardieu provoked Nov. 29, while allegedly piloting his scooter with what turned out to be nearly four times the legal limit of alcohol in his system. Yet rather than plead guilty and receive a modest fine as planned, Depardieu’s absence means his charges will now be sent to criminal court, where he’ll face maximum penalties of $5,850 in fines and up to two years in the clink. His recent moves have many people in France hoping judges throw the book at him. Indeed, though he’s considered by some critics as perhaps the greatest French actor in history, Depardieu now seems to be focusing all his creative genius on ways of alienating as many of his erstwhile countrymen as possible. In December he sparked controversy by bolting France for Belgium, where he promptly requested citizenship. Once there, Depardieu denounced a planned rise in French taxes on incomes over $1.3 million to 75% — a partial remedy to France&#8217;s crisis in public finances. Depardieu then engaged in a public spat with France’s Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=189209&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Cop Tells All: How to Avoid Getting a Speeding Ticket (and Other Tips)</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/05/traffic-cop-tells-all-how-to-avoid-getting-a-speeding-ticket-and-other-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so the best way to avoid getting a speeding ticket is not to speed, but you knew that. What you really want to know is, how do you speed and not get a ticket? One way: Go 189 m.p.h. That&#8217;s insane, of course, and you&#8217;d have to be to drive that fast anywhere not a speedway or the Bonneville Salt Flats, but according to former traffic cop Mike Brucks, that&#8217;s what it took for him to let a speeder go. &#8220;I clocked a guy on a crotch-rocket bike doing 189 mph,&#8221; said Brucks in an interview with Popular Mechanics. &#8220;Just let him go. Since police departments began to get sued for chasing speeders, around 1995, there&#8217;s a fine line. You have to determine if you can catch him, if chasing him will cause an accident for him, for you, for the public. There&#8217;s no way to catch anyone like that.&#8221; (MORE: Speeding into the Future: Self-Driving Cars Are Now Legal in California) After working as a military traffic cop for six years, Brucks joined the El Paso Police Department where he dueled with speeders for 22 years from the back of Kawasakis and Harley-Davidsons before retiring last May. Over the course of his career, he says he issued nearly 40,000 tickets. Why motorcycles? Because they trump cars when it comes to catching speeders: You can accelerate faster, says Bruck, and they&#8217;re easier to navigate through traffic. What were his favorite hiding places? Overpasses and bridges on freeways, but even then, he notes, location was everything: &#8220;If there are a lot of exits, I can miss [a speeder] who can maybe get off at an exit, and then it&#8217;s too late to catch him.&#8221; A lot of people assume, rightly or wrongly, that the margin over the posted limit you can speed before a traffic cop&#8217;s going to bother is around 10 m.p.h. For Bruck, it was more like 20 m.p.h., at least in areas he says had &#8220;a lot of visibility,&#8221; though it sounds like anything exceeding 80 m.p.h. was cause<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=188934&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Files Complaint after Teen Sentenced to 10 Years of Church Attendance</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/09/aclu-files-complaint-after-teen-sentenced-to-10-years-of-church-attendance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma O&#039;Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If offered the opportunity to sit in church instead of in jail, most people would probably opt for a little extra piety. But when an Oklahoma judge offered that alternative to a 17-year-old facing manslaughter charges, the American Civil Liberties Union was less than impressed. According to Tulsa World, the ACLU filed a complaint Tuesday against a Muskogee, Okla., judge’s decision to include the religious requirement as a stipulation in the teenager’s deferred sentence. In November, Tyler Alred was sentenced to 10 years&#8217; probation for his involvement in an alcohol-related car accident last year that killed his 16-year-old passenger. Alred, who was classified as a “youthful offender,” pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in August, Tulsa World reported. According to the Oklahoman, Alred confessed to drinking but tested below the legal alcohol limit at the time of the crash. He was, however, still considered to be driving under the influence because he was underage. The teen avoided jail time when District Judge Mike Norman handed down a decade-long probation term in tandem with several other requirements, including that he attend church regularly, wear an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet, participate in drug and alcohol assessments, finish school, undergo counseling and contribute to speaking events warning against drunk driving, NBC News noted. (MORE: Articles of Faith: Will a Slew of Overturned State laws Galvanize the Christian Right?) Alred’s defense attorney, Donn Baker, told Tulsa World in November that he did not intend to fight Norman’s ruling. “My client goes to church every Sunday,” Baker reportedly said. “That isn’t going to be a problem for him. We certainly want the probation for him.” The District Attorney’s Office will be responsible for monitoring Alred’s churchgoing. Assistant District Attorney Jim Carnagey told the Oklahoma paper that Norman has ordered similarly religious requirements before. “If someone wants to appeal my decision, they’re entitled to do that,” Norman told Tulsa World after he delivered the sentence. The ACLU of Oklahoma has now taken up that challenge. In its filing with the Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints, the organization argues that the church attendance stipulation infringes on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=185397&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Overwhelmingly Votes to Ban the Word &#8216;Lunatic&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/06/congress-overwhelmingly-votes-to-ban-the-word-lunatic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma O&#039;Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says Washington can&#8217;t get anything done? Our duly elected representatives have a reputation for being forever locked in disagreement, but apparently they can reach a conclusion when facing issues of linguistic politics. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted 398-1 in support of a bill banning the use of the word “lunatic” in all federal legislation, the BBC reported. The House vote comes after the Senate approved the motion in May. The bill, which will now be passed on to President Obama for his signature, is intended to erase outdated or derogatory terms from the U.S. legal code. “Federal law should reflect the 21st century understanding of mental illness and disease, and that the continued use of this pejorative term has no place in the U.S. code,” Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, one of the sponsors of the measure, said. The legislation specifically points to a section of banking regulation that calls for a bank authority to serve as a “committee of estates of lunatics,” the New York Times noted. (MORE: Dear Ann Coulter: Special Olympian Pens Open Letter to Pundit over Use of R-Word) Mental health organizations, such as the Mental Health Liaison Group, supported the word’s elimination from federal literature. Advocates of the bill argued that the inclusion of such antiquated terms as “lunatic” perpetuates the social stigma surrounding mental illness. The expression itself comes from the Latin word for moon and stems from an ancient belief that people could become mentally unstable, or “moonstruck,” during certain lunar changes, according to the New York Times. Bob Carolla from the National Alliance on Mental Illness told the Associated Press that he’d also like to see terms such as “mental defective” stricken from the books. The newly approved bill follows a 2010 measure that prohibited the use of “retarded” and “retardation” in health, education and labor laws. Who was the one representative to vote “no” on the wildly popular &#8220;lunatic&#8221; ban? Texas congressman Louie Gohmert, who promptly issued a statement explaining his objections. “Not only should we not eliminate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=185477&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Police Give Smokers a Guide to Washington&#8217;s New Marijuana Law</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/19/seattle-police-give-potheads-a-guide-to-washingtons-new-marijuana-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle, that leading citadel of progressive-mindedness in the Pacific northwest, gave us Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Sir Mix-a-Lot and what is now the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now it&#8217;s leading the nation again by informing its residents of their rights when it comes to marijuana use. Initiative 502, which passed on Nov. 6, allows people in the state of Washington over 21 years of age to possess up to an ounce of weed for personal use. It&#8217;s one of the first laws in the country to legalize marijuana for recreational use, and therefore it appears that a certain amount of confusion exists as to what one can or can&#8217;t do with the ganja one might have on hand beginning Dec. 6. (MORE: Two U.S. States Become First to Legalize Marijuana) Well whether residents prefer it in grandma&#8217;s homemade cookies or a tye-dyed glass water bong that an aging hippie threw in at a yard sale because he now uses a vaporizer, the Seattle Police Department want citizens to know the new rules. They&#8217;ve produced a webpage to clear the air, called, amazingly, Marijwhatnow? A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use In Seattle. It is an easy to read &#8212; but also really funny &#8212; comprehensive look at the new relationship between Seattleites and Mary Jane. (MORE: Viewpoint &#8212; Marijuana, Market Forces and Why Colorado’s New Pot Law Could Actually Be a Black-Market Boon) Some of the questions and answers: Will police officers be able to smoke marijuana? As of right now, no. This is still a very complicated issue. and also: What happens if I get pulled over and I’m sober, but an officer or his K9 buddy smells the ounce of Super Skunk I’ve got in my trunk? Under state law, officers have to develop probable cause to search a closed or locked container. Each case stands on its own, but the smell of pot alone will not be reason to search a vehicle. If officers have information that you’re trafficking, producing or delivering marijuana in violation of state law, they can get<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=181943&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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