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Minnesota Supreme Court weighs edited ballot question titles

...identification," he said. "It's hard to fathom how a proposed title could not include that phrase." State Solicitor General Alan Gilbert argued that Ritchie had to provide titles for ballot questions after Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-07-31/minnesota-supreme-court-weighs-edite
News | Political
Myths about the health-care law

...regulation of that commerce. President Ronald Reagan's solicitor general, Charles Fried, and conservative judge Laurence...Department's Office of Legal Counsel and acting solicitor general from 1993 to 1997. He filed a brief on behalf of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-03-25/myths-about-health-car
Columnists
Should Kagan recuse herself from health-care case?

...played a role in the development and defense of the president's health-care law during her tenure as U.S. solicitor general. Despite claims from Obama administration officials that Kagan was not involved in the health-care discussions...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-12-02/should-kagan-recuse
Other Opinion
Health care and the court

...legislation. Conservatives raise questions about Justice Elena Kagan's impartiality because she was the president's solicitor general while the legislation and its legal defense were being crafted.The case involving Justice Thomas presents the easier...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-12-05/health-care-and-cou
Other Opinion
Scalia's time to sizzle

...times he verged on outright heckling. He interrupted Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who was arguing against the Arizona...but that's OK with us." He interrupted the solicitor general to inform him that "Arizona is not trying to kick...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-04-27/scalias-time-sizzle
Columnists
Kagan's conflict of interest

...recused herself from this case because she had been the solicitor general building the government's case against Arizona...The reason I bring it up is that she was also the solicitor general building the government's case for Obamacare before...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-04-30/kagans-conflict-intere
Open Forum
Ask, tell, just don't get married

...the ACLU and other stalwart progressive voices, but they are joined by a remarkable range of people. Ted Olson, solicitor general under President George W. Bush, will help argue the case for same-sex marriage in Perry, and the chairman of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2010-12-08/ask-tell-just-dont-get
Columnists
Business notes

...Cragun's Resort and Conference Center. Mille Lacs hires solicitor general ONAMIA -- The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe recently...tribal court clerk, has been named the band's solicitor general. Altman is a graduate of the University of Minnesota...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/061999/bus_0619990057.shtml
Business
Elliot Richardson dies in Boston at 79

...White House ordered him to fire Cox, the former solicitor general and Harvard law professor whom he'd hired as Watergate...do the firing. Eventually, Cox was dismissed by Solicitor General Robert Bork. Bork would later serve on the U.S...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/010100/new_0101000006.shtml
News
Lewis held without bond in killing of two

...hearing was continued at the request of prosecutors, who said they needed more time to interview witnesses. Atlanta Solicitor General Raines Carter, who handles the early phases of cases for the city before they are transferred to Superior Court...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/020200/nsp_0202000029.shtml
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