Blog Posts in November, 2012
Posted on Nov 30, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Matt Brown of the Deseret News wrote an excellent piece on the Nativity loss yesterday: After more than a half century, Santa Monica Nativity display at Palisades Park is no more. Click here to read ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
As we predicted, United States District Court Judge Audrey B. Collins has dismissed the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes case. Her order arrived moments ago. Additionally, Judge Collins has vacated the ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My friend and colleague Rob Muise of the American Freedom Law Center posted news of his victory in a Nativity scene case out of Michigan. See Sixty-Year Christmas Tradition Restored: Nativity Scene to ...
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Posted on Nov 28, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
On Monday (December 3, 2012), we will be back in U.S. District Court opposing the City of Santa Monica's Motion to Dismiss the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes lawsuit. A copy of our opposition to the ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The American Thinker features my lamentation on the end of conservatism, from People's Park to Palisades Park, in the wake of the court's decison rejecting the right of the Santa Monica ...
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Posted on Nov 20, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins denied the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction. It means that for the first time in 60 years, the Nativity ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My colleague Rob Muise posted this today: “These Are the Times that Try Men’s Souls” Dear Fellow American, Yesterday was a disappointment to all freedom-loving Americans as our ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The press loves to beat up on intelligent design, so it is no surprise that Judge Hiroshige's tentative decision in David Coppedge's case favoring Jet Propulsion Laboratory is receving wide ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Fox News and other media outlets are reporting today that the judge in our case, David Coppedge vs. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has issued a tentative decision finding for JPL. We will not comment on ...
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