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* What can we learn from the Shirley Sherrod ridiculousness? [Associated Press]
* Charlie Rangel will face a public trial on various tax and ethics violations. [CNN]
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* Immediate fallout from financial reform. [Law.com]
* New York State wants some money from Merrill Lynch and BoA. [Courthouse News Service]
* Indian law schools are on the cutting edge of transgendered self-identification. [ABA Journal]
* Americans are getting dumber relative to the rest of the world. [New York Times]
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* Darth Vader has been reduced to common thievery. [NY Daily News]