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Businesses Push Back On Foreign Bribery Law
But now the US Chamber of Commerce is pushing back: It has hired former Justice Department leaders to make the case that the law is out of date. The FCPA dates back to the 1970s, a time when American executives carried briefcases stuffed with cash to
Updated: 10/19/2011 04:30P
The Dale Farm Eviction: Using Planning Laws To Justify Racism Towards Gypsies
the last legal appeal was exhausted last week, when, in the High Court, Mr. Justice Ouseley ruled that the removal of the 86 families was necessary to avoid “the criminal law and the planning system being brought into serious disrepute.
Updated: 10/19/2011 04:24P
Report: Secure Communities affects US citizens, too
But as noted in the report by the UC Berkeley Law School, US citizens are affected by the program in more ways than one might think. Citizens have been arrested, and perhaps even more notably, nearly 40 percent of the people arrested by immigration
Updated: 10/19/2011 03:54P
San Francisco OKs New Law Attacking Pregnancy Centers
Under the law, a non-compliant pregnancy center may also be subject to a criminal misdemeanor charge under the law and, if convicted, the pregnancy center is subject to a fine of $200, plus $50 for each day the offense continues.
Updated: 10/19/2011 03:46P
Freedom To Cheat?
The principle is this: the making of a false statement is considered a wrong in both civil and criminal laws if the intent is to promote the social or economic status of a specific person or persons other than trivially. There is a world of difference
Updated: 10/19/2011 03:37P
New Sherlock Holmes Trailer: Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law & Rachel McAdams Return!
Fortunately, he's got his trusty sidekick Watson (Jude Law) and Adler (Rachel McAdams) along for the ride. The task at hand? Only thwarting the foremost criminal mind in all of Europe, Dr. Moriarty. The stakes? All of Western civilization, pretty much.
Updated: 10/19/2011 03:21P
The Law Offices of Howard J. Weintraub Successfully Represents Clients
Georgia residents who are in need of a criminal defense lawyer or an Atlanta DUI lawyer are welcome to contact The Law Offices of Howard J. Weintraub, PC to learn more about the best DUI attorneys in the State. In a GA DUI case, it is important for the
Updated: 10/19/2011 03:08P
Game Wardens Run To Honor Fallen Comrades
The runners took off from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro just before 10:00 Wednesday morning. The 4th annual run is honors the game wardens killed in the line of duty since 1880. Corporal john Macdonald of the Maine Warden Service
Updated: 10/19/2011 02:47P
United States Poacher Fined for Violations of Canadian Laws While Hunting
EDMONTON, Oct. 19, 2011 /CNW/ - Jeffrey Foiles, of Pleasant Hill, Illinois, was fined a total of $14500 today in Edmonton Provincial Court on five counts of violations against Canadian law protecting migratory birds, and one count under the Criminal
Updated: 10/19/2011 02:38P
'Celebrity' Hunter Fined for Abusing Duck in Video
Jeff Foiles will no longer get to hunt in Canada for running a-fowl of the law. An American "celebrity" hunter, Jeff Foiles, has been fined $14500 by an Edmonton court for breaking a duck's neck on television than mockingly opening and closing the
Updated: 10/19/2011 02:29P
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