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		<title>Is the Health Care Reform Act a Civil Rights Act?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should we consider the health care reform act, which President Obama signed into law today to be a civil rights act? There is good reason to do so.  Though the Act is far from perfect, it does represent a commitment by Congress to expand access to a fundamental human right.  Article 25 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Justice Roberts</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3819</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am both surprised and bemused at Chief Justice Roberts&#8217; criticism of President Obama in a question and answer session with students at the University of Alabama School of Law last week. The Chief Justice said that Obama&#8217;s criticism of the Court&#8217;s recent ruling in the Citizens United case (in which the Court struck down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Forward with ECA</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3810</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Culhane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Lipkin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a colleague of Bobby Lipkin&#8217;s. His enthusiasm for the project was the main inspiration for my own, Word in Edgewise, where I blog about all manner of things legal, social, and personal (quite differently than Bobby did, of course). Shortly after his shocking death, I offered these thoughts, but I urge you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Bobby</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3807</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many of my colleagues in constitutional law, I was shocked and saddened to hear of Bobby&#8217;s passing.   I first met Bobby through a Con Law listserve.  I always enjoyed reading his comments, and I couldn&#8217;t help but noticing that his many inquiries seemd to track exactly my thoughts and research at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Bobby Lipkin</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3776</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Chen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember Bobby Lipkin very fondly as a founding member of the Ratio Juris weblog.  He was thrilled to discover the joys of blogging and soon founded his own blog, Essentially Contested America.  These new channels for communication gave him a voice and an immediacy unique to online media.  Bobby mastered this craft and quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Lipkin</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3769</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry L. Chambers, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words cannot do Bobby justice.  He was smart, thoughtful, inquisitive, kind and gentle.  His generosity knew no bounds.  I will miss Bobby.  The world is a bit worse off than it was just a few days ago. 
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		<title>Sad Announcement</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3747</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not Bobby Lipkin. I am his friend  and colleague, Cassandra King.
[SEE ALSO:  Robert L. Chamber's post about Bobby , Jim Chen's Remembering Bobby]
Below, I&#8217;ve pasted the announcement that appeared on the homepage of the Widener Law site:
Robert &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Justin Lipkin, Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law on Widener Law’s Delaware Campus, passed away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Option</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3745</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry L. Chambers, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public option took a shot to the kidney yesterday.  The punch was hard and it was not fair, but it is just a part of the game.  The public option may be getting a standing eight-count in boxing parlance, but it should not be counted out.  In the next several weeks, the pressure will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care and Dog Care</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3739</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I have ahad a taste of what it might be like not to have health insurance for members of my family.  Fortunately, my experience did not involve uninsured children, but instead an uninsured dog.  My puppy, Owen, just turned 6 months old and he does not have health insurance.  Being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Paterson</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3737</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry L. Chambers, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, news circulated suggesting that President Barack Obama sent emissaries to attempt to convinced New York Governor David Paterson to exit the 2010 New York gubernatorial race.   I have heard some argue that the president&#8217;s attempt is anti-democratic and that the voters of New York should decide who their governor will be.  Of course, [...]]]></description>
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