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Been sold. the school approved the ralph but will not allow the gun at the school. and the attorneys for convicted murderer jodi arias are asking for her new jury to be sequestered. the judge has yet to pick a date for the new sentencing trial which will only determine whether or not she faces the death penalty. arias attorneys say she cant get a fair trial because of the publicity around this case. arias was convicted of a new jersey court says if you text a driver and that driver gets into...

You said, you would be obligated. >> okay. paul, less anybody think, okay, thats a chicago problem. whew, thank got i live in l.a., this could be precedent setting. they have properties and mortgages all over the country. >> and these are abandoned homes, and the local government says, hey, clean it up, you know? lets make sure the property is kept up. >> they have ordinances to keep it clean. >> theres a way around it. wow lawyering this up too much -- >> but you will -- >> its called concurren...

The judge admonished the prosecution more that because court got stalled by about two hours, and she said that they know better than that. so they had to have the two different clerks going through all of this new evidence that was being submitted today. but, again, as i said, some pretty heavy stuff, stuff that isnt even going to be visible to the media because they are not presenting it on the big screen to protect the emotions, obviously, of the victims family members sitting inside that cour...

Never publicly produced any real evidence that real damage was done to national security above and beyond the embarrassment to state department officials because of the revelations of what they had said in some of these cables, the embarrassment to pentagon officials but no real evidence of serious harm -- specific harm to national security. in fact, the prosecutors have been claiming they couldnt release a lot of these documents because they were confidential, that the request was too broad. ju...

The chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, told me that created a huge problem. >> that is highly unusual for a judge to intervene so hastily and make the decision not based on the facts of the interviews, and the public safety exception, but what they perceived was happening based on what they saw on television. its dangerous. its precedent setting that i think we need to change and correct right away and we still need more answers on this particular question. once they walk...

If the issue should be left up to the states. both cases decided in june. >> thank you very much. you really get the feeling we are watching history in the making this week. >> thats right. >> are you all right? >> i am. just took a drink of water. >> it happens sometimes. >> it has nothing to do with the story. >> you are good. cough it out. at any rate, its going to be a big, big week and clearly precedent-setting. >> thats right. both sides have 30 minutes to argue. basically one side will sa...

Citizenship to freed slaves, says that equal protection of the law wont let you get away with that. you know why? because if youre going to discriminate against a group of people like gay people, you better have a very good reason. and you dont have a good reason to do that. so they threw it out. and thats whats in front of the supreme court now. does the 14th amendment to the constitution require that gay marriage should be allowed to occur in california? >> and all of this is precedent setting...

Canadian company would be precedent setting and it would also lead us to think about doing the same to american companies. >> tech resources, which operates one of the largest zinc and lead smelters in the world in british columbia, just a few miles north of the u.s. border, has been found liable under the u.s. super fund law. the company admits to discharging toxic chemicals into the columbia river over several decades. metals that flow across the border into washington state. the indian tribe ...

Teenager is going through. her name means light breeze in icelandic is not on the official government approved list of names. yes, there is a government approved list of names so officially she is referred to as girl. the family is suing to have her name approved. it used to be that when pollution crossed borders it was a diplomatic matter. a court ruling could now change that. the future of the business along the canadian border. >> court ruling over the industrial pollution that came from th...

Baldwin has become the first openly-gay person to win a u.s. senate seat. >> you look at all of the combined things. it sets a new political stage for sure. >> precedent-setting, for sure. the northeast is bracing for another storm today. airlines already cancelling flights. coming up, where and when the storm will hit. plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. its clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone --...