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President Obama Nominates Paul J. Watford to Serve on the United States Court
including complex white-collar criminal cases as a member of the Major Frauds Section. While serving in the United States Attorney's Office, Watford tried seven cases to verdict before a jury. He joined the law firm of Sidley & Austin LLP in Los
Updated: 10/17/2011 07:24P
Satire: Big Kahuna in British envoy's expulsion case
The case put forward by the state is one of criminal recklessness. Criminal law recognizes recklessness as one of the mens rea elements to establish liability. It shows less culpability than intention, but more culpability than criminal negligence.
Updated: 10/17/2011 07:22P
Law & Disorder: The Courts' Schizo View of Sexual Speech
Entertainment Merchants Association, which struck down a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors, even with a parent's permission—but this time, it's Justice Antonin "We are fools for Christ's sake" Scalia who gets to parse
Updated: 10/17/2011 07:21P
Flaws found in proposed laws on prostitution
It has a number of partners with observer status including the Garda National Immigration Bureau and Department of Justice Anti-Human Trafficking Unit. Mr Shatter said yesterday he now intended “to arrange a consultation process to help inform the
Updated: 10/17/2011 07:17P
Court watchers raise questions about Supreme Court appointees
Justice Michael Moldaver and Justice Andromache Karakatsanis have been nominated to fill the vacancies at the Supreme Court. Affirming speculation from the legal community, both appointees served on the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Updated: 10/17/2011 07:11P
Law Enforcement Blotter 10/17
*5:24pm-A Brownwood Police officer made a traffic stop on a driver, identified as Jesse Deleon, running a stop sign located at the intersection of Austin Avenue and Brady Avenue. This traffic stop resulted in the arrest of Deleon for two outstanding
Updated: 10/17/2011 07:11P
Move to charge counter terror laws
These laws include preventative detention, where a person can be taken into custody without charges having been laid if they are suspected of being involved in terrorism. Greens legal affairs spokesman Shane Rattenbury says conventional criminal law is
Updated: 10/17/2011 06:42P
Utah Couple Who Targeted For Sale By Owners Charged With Mortgage Fraud
2011 in Scams (Source: FBI) UTAH COUNTY— A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Portia R. Louder, age 40, and Chad Louder, age 41, both of Highland, with criminal violations of federal law in connection
Updated: 10/17/2011 06:17P
Terror laws threaten liberty
At the time, the Australian Government argued that these new powers were necessary because there were holes in conventional criminal law that left us open to terrorist attack. Preventative detention was seen as a backstop to catch terror suspects who
Updated: 10/17/2011 06:02P
Morrison v. NAB™s 2nd act: way beyond securities fraud and RICO
That's because of a conflict between Morrison's caution against presuming a law applies overseas and language in a 1922 Supreme Court opinion called US v. Bowman, which holds that extraterritorial jurisdiction can be inferred from US criminal laws.
Updated: 10/17/2011 06:01P
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