It is surely true, in theory anyway, that lawyers who argued on behalf of Gitmo detainees in the past can argue for more limited rights when working for the government.

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At a hearing, most of the men waived their rights to argue for bail.

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Lawyers for the government argue employees' rights have to be limited in order to protect the rights of others.

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But the American system also guarantees the rights of those who argue for the opposite view: that Islam is basically a peaceful, universalist faith which restricts rather than enjoins the use of violence.

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Ivi tried to argue it was a cable-TV network for the purposes of these retransmission rights, because an exception to the Copyright Act gives cable operators the right to retransmit if they pay fees set by the Copyright Royalty Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.

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Julie Rikelman, litigation director for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said the group has provided three attorneys to argue that case.

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Attorneys for Forrester went to federal court in Trenton, New Jersey to argue that the Voting Rights Act was violated by the switch of Democratic candidates.

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Groups opposed to illegal immigration say they aren't worried that lawmakers or voters will be swayed by emotional messages, and argue that extending legal rights to immigrants living illegally in the U.S. will create financial problems for cash-starved governments and spur more illegal immigration.

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The four not-dead plaintiffs argue that there is no state-law authority for the purge and that because Texas has a history of voting-rights violations (not against the undead, but still), it was required by the federal Voting Rights Act to get pre-approval for the relevant rule change.

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