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• The City Attorney (Carmen A. Trutanich) and Law Enforcement officials are trying to increase raids and regulation of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles (1+/0- justifications)
• Senator Franken submitted an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that forbids defense contractors from forcing employees to arbitrate claims arising out of a civil rights violation or any tort related to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, or retention (1+/0- justifications)
• In 1977 Iowa prosecutors passed prosecuting a white suspect (the brother-in-law of the fire captain) who was seen at the murder scene for conspiring and framing a black boy unrelated to the crime. They successfully coached witnesses and put him away for 35 years. (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama's actions spurred a 73% increase in lending to small businesses, creating new jobs (1+/0- justifications)
• Identity theft is the number one crime in the U.S. (1+/0- justifications)
• Crime rates dropped dramatically across the nation in first 6 months of 2009 (3+/0- justifications)
• The health reform bill will increase medicaid eligibility to at least 133% of the poverty line-covering millions more people (1+/0- justifications)
• Drilling in ANWR is expected to increase US oil production by 780,000 barrels per day at peak (1+/0- justifications)
• Drilling in ANWR will at maximum increase US oil production by 1.45 million barrels per day at peak (1+/0- justifications)
• Vice President Dick Cheney is guilty of conspiring to torture, a US federal criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment or death (4+/0- justifications)
• Schools should increase natural light and blue light in classrooms to increase student attentiveness (1+/0- justifications)
• General Motors used a front comapany (National City Lines) to purchase and dismantle electric trolleys in major US cities in order to increase demand for their internal combustion buses (1+/0- justifications)
• Legalizing abortion significantly decreases crime (1+/0- justifications)
• Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2009 despite an ongoing recession (1+/0- justifications)
• A change in U.S. sentencing laws could reduce crime and incarceration rates by 50% in 10 years (1+/0- justifications)
• Northwest U.S. cities experienced a 35% increase in infant mortality after the Fukushima meltdown (1+/0- justifications)
• Diet soda does not increase weight gain or diabetes (1+/0- justifications)