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Friday, January 4, 2013

Brits go after the fatties

English: Screenshot of Julie Andrews from the ...
English: Screenshot of Julie Andrews from the trailer for the film Mary Poppins (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Proposal would require obese citizens to lose weight or lose benefits.

http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2013/01/the-absurdity-of-many-aspects-of-the-us-legal-system-that-i-track-here-at-legal-blog-watch-has-led-me-to-take-some-comfort.html

Some fear UK is "spiraling into a Mary Poppins nation."

http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2010/01/uk-spiraling-into-nanny-state-is-us-next.html#comment-6a00d8341cce2453ef012876e192f2970c



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Jim Castagnera
- Public Information Officer, U.S. Coast Guard (1970-1973) - Communication Director, Case Western Reserve University (1974-1978) - Assistant Professor, Business Law, UT-Austin (1981-1983) - Labor Lawyer and Member, IP Practice Group, Saul Ewing (Philadelphia, PA) (1984-1993) - Professor of Legal Methods, Widener Law School (1993-1996) - Currently university legal counsel and Managing Director of K&C HR Enterprises - 18 published books, including "Al Qaeda Goes to College" (Praeger 2009); "Handbook for Student Law" (Peter Lang 2010, Revised Ed. 2014); "Attorney at Large" (Amazon 2011); "Counter Terrorism Issues" (CRC Press 2013) - 2007 Academic Fellow on Terrorism, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (Israel) - Associate Editor, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy -Member, FBI Infragard Newark Chapter -Member, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences -Member, Association of Corporate Counsel - Member, NJ Association of Criminal Justice Educators
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