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Gun Control and Gun Rights Stay Fighting Words
When pressing public necessity demanded it, the founding fathers were also willing to impress guns from law abiding citizens, even if those citizens were left without guns to defend themselves from a criminal attack.” Such passages provide the reader
Updated: 10/09/2011 05:05P
My Turn: Arizona's Truth in Sentencing law keeps dangerous felons where they
We should always seek more efficient use of criminal justice dollars, but before deciding to eliminate Truth in Sentencing, understanding the true makeup of the current prison population is not only key, it begs the question - which inmates would you
Updated: 10/09/2011 04:26P
Should Gay Rights Advocating Tennessee Student Assaulted By Principal Sue?
He also could sue for assault – confusingly, assault means two quite different things under criminal and tort law, and we usually think of assault in the criminal law sense: a physical attack against another person. Under civil (tort) law, though,
Updated: 10/09/2011 04:23P
Child grooming to become an offence in Queensland
The Bligh Government is seeking to toughen Queensland's child sex offender laws, making it illegal for predators to befriend minors. Grooming will become an offence if amendments to the Queensland Criminal Code are passed by State Parliament this week.
Updated: 10/09/2011 04:05P
Putting an End to Bullying: Changing Attitudes Through Vigorous Awareness and
But these “non-criminal” situations can also have consequences under the law. In New Jersey, we have the nation's oldest and most comprehensive state civil rights law – the Law Against Discrimination (LAD). The LAD deals with many types of
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:33P
CBI hires ex-solicitor general for key cases
In a snub to the law ministry, the Maharashtra government and the CBI have engaged the former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium to represent them in all the important criminal cases in the Supreme Court. Subramanium, who quit as the second highest
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:16P
Laureen Snider
Laureen's areas of interest include sociology of Law and corporate crime; feminism and the criminal justice system; social control, punishment; punitiveness and modernity. My major research interests lie in the intersection between knowledge,
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:08P
Letter: Putting an End to Bullying
School superintendents are required to report incidents of bullying to the state Department of Education, which will also be grading schools and districts on their efforts at combating bullying. School employees are required to report all bullying
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:00P
New Pa. Law Requires Criminal History Disclosure For Teachers, Staff
A new Pennsylvania state law that overhauls criminal history disclosure rules for all public and private school employees also imposes a lifetime ban on working in a school for people who commit certain crimes. The law, which was signed by Gov.
Updated: 10/09/2011 02:51P
Fears for lawyers' jobs
Waikato's fledgling lawyers will be forced out of the profession by a lack of work as the full force of a Government review of legal aid funding kicks in next year, says a top barrister. NZ Law Society Waikato president and Hamilton barrister Bruce
Updated: 10/09/2011 12:02P
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