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  Legally Speaking: The lighter side of the legal system

  By John G. Browning | Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 @ 7:04am

  We’ve been deluged lately with weighty, thought-provoking cases in the legal system: the George Zimmerman trial over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and what it says about race relations in America; the fight over abortion legislation in Texas; and a series of potentially far-reaching U.S. Supreme Court decisions on everything from voting rights to affirmative action to same-sex marriage.  At

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