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Media mainlines Insite Kool-Aid while court mulls supervised injection
The federal Conservative government wants to enforce criminal law and possibly shut down Insite while the province's pro-Insite argument centres on provincial healthcare rights. While a decision is pending, the mainstream media, in its infinite wisdom,
Updated: 05/17/2011 02:42P
Armenian women's groups seek increased penalty for sexual assault and rape
Armenian women's rights advocates now seek to increase this penalty and make other amendments to Armenia's laws related to sexual assault and rape. In response to the high profile Nubarashen case, the Women's Resource Center Armenia organized a special
Updated: 05/17/2011 02:32P
Judicial source: SCAF has right to grant Mubarak amnesty
However, he pointed to the possibility of a pre-sentencing pardon, provided the legislative authority passes a law that deems the acts committed by Mubarak to be non-criminal in accordance with the Amnesty Act. However, Sayed said that such an act was
Updated: 05/17/2011 02:19P
Tax Defense: “I Have ADD”
Tax crimes are no laughing matter, but occasionally there's a development that seems downright funny. The TurboTax defense was funny, especially from the mouth of a hopeful Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner as he was primping for the top
Updated: 05/17/2011 11:53A
Five Years for Opening a Bottle of Ketchup? Trying to Make Sense of New
They are the product of decades of ad hoc legislative revision of the New Jersey criminal code that has resulted in overlapping charges, inconsistently graded offenses, and mandatory minimums whose penalties conflict with the values of New Jersey
Updated: 05/17/2011 11:11A
Criminal Rates of Interest
Most lenders don't expect to be subject to criminal charges or imprisonment due to loan agreements entered into with commercial borrowers or due to receiving payments from their commercial borrowers. However, section 347 of the Canadian Criminal Code
Updated: 05/17/2011 10:59A
Drunk husband beat his wife - scandal at police department (photo)
Law enforcement agents from Harazdan Police department found and apprehended Soghomonyam, who was in non-sober condition, cursed, threatened and hampered the police. Soghomonyan was arrested. A criminal case was initiated under Article 117 of Criminal
Updated: 05/17/2011 10:19A
Paul Walton: Legalization probably best
The first is controlled access to the drug for medical and recreational use. The time has come for the state to end its blanket ban on what for the most part is a rather innocuous substance. And I recognize the link between pot and organized crime.
Updated: 05/17/2011 09:47A
Study: When Punishment Doesn't Fit the Crime
This year Penn Law's Criminal Law Research Group (CLRG), directed by Paul Robinson, the Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, did a survey of New Jersey residents about the state's criminal code, to find out whether citizens thought the punishments for an
Updated: 05/17/2011 09:13A
Black Friday - Plenty more to come
In any event, March next year seems an unrealistic trial date because the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) counts in the indictments threaten to turn this case into a hot mess. UIGEA has had scant judicial review or interpretation to
Updated: 05/17/2011 07:24A
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