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Issue 3

Feds Settle Lawsuit Against Ariz. Sheriff's Office
AP – The Wall Street Journal – June 2, 2011 – 6:54 P.M.
PHOENIX—The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday settled a lawsuit that sought records from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office as part of a civil-rights investigation that he says is focused on his immigration patrols.
The settlement doesn't stop the investigation, the Justice Department said.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303745304576362011905595174.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Joe Arpaio Settles Lawsuit With Feds Over Access in Discrimination Investigation

James King – Phoenix New Times - Thu., Jun. 2 2011 at 4:37 PM
America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" is finally cooperating with the federal government in its investigation into discrimination practices within his office -- but only thanks to months of litigation.
The United States Department of Justice announced this afternoon that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has entered a "court-enforceable" agreement with the DOJ "resolving a longstanding dispute over access to information related to the department's Title VI investigation of the sheriff's office."
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/06/joe_arpaio_settles_lawsuit_wit.php

Obama, Holder pursuit of Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues, say supporters

Jim Kouri - Law Enforcement Examiner - June 3rd, 2011 7:56 am ET
The U.S. Attorney General and officials with the Justice Department yesterday boasted that it had entered in to a court-enforceable agreement with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio resolving a longstanding dispute over access to information related to the department’s Title VI investigation of the sheriff’s office.
The settlement comes after MCSO allowed officials from the Justice Department to conduct more than 220 interviews and review hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. Prior to the litigation, MCSO refused to cooperate in full with the investigation.
http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/obama-holder-pursuit-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio-continues-say-supporters

Medical marijuana proponents prep legal counters

Evan Wyloge – Az CapitolTimes.com - Published: June 2nd, 2011
Ryan Hurley, an attorney with Rose Law Group who represents several hopeful medical marijuana dispensary owners, waits Wednesday for Health Department Director Will Humble, who ultimately rejected the application of Hurley's clients.
Since the May 24 announcement by Gov. Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne that they would seek judicial clarification of the conflict between longstanding federal drug laws and Arizona’s new medical marijuana law in federal court, proponents of the new law have been preparing legal recourse designed to put the medical marijuana program back on track.
http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/06/02/medical-marijuana-proponents-prep-legal-counters/

Medical marijuana gaining acceptance

EDITORIAL - The Arizona Republic - Jun. 3, 2011 12:00 AM
Arizona's new medical-marijuana law is not just a legal headache for lawyers and lawmakers anymore.
The law that passed narrowly last fall is a cultural page-turning event, prompting changes that just a few years ago would have seemed inconceivable.
Like them or not - and we are not exactly thrilled with a lot of these developments - the changes wrought by the medical-marijuana law go far beyond what is dictated in statutes that declare pot a "medicine."
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2011/06/03/20110603fri2-03.html

Six Dead in Southern Arizona Shooting, Including Gunman’s Ex-Wife and Her Lawyer

Marc Lacey – The New York Times – June 3, 2011
PHOENIX — A man who was apparently upset over a contentious divorce killed his former wife, her lawyer and three others on Thursday morning in the border city of Yuma, Ariz., before killing himself, the authorities and friends of the victims said.
The police were still piecing together the confusing situation, which left a trail of six bodies across the city and its environs. After killing five people and wounding a friend of his former wife, the gunman, identified as Carey H. Dyess, 73, of the farming community of Wellton, killed himself, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/us/03yuma.html?_r=1&hpw

Gilbert parents upset over song switch at Mesquite graduation

Hayley Ringle - The Arizona Republic - Jun. 3, 2011 07:43 AM
A decision to not perform "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at Gilbert Mesquite High's graduation last week has caused some concern among a group of parents who say it's a tradition at the school.
The familiar chorus of the song includes, "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on."
It's a catch-22 for Mesquite High Principal Cecilia Peterson, who said she asked the school choir and concert band to play a different patriotic song this year after parents had raised concerns the previous two years about the 1861 song written at the beginning of the Civil War by Julia Ward Howe.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2011/06/03/20110603gilbert-graduation-song-switch-upsets-some-parents.html