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Victory in Florida: No Illegal Drug Testing For Welfare
Under a new Florida law, Luis had to pay for and pass a drug test before he could get TANF. He would have to give a sample of his urine to a lab and acknowledge that the state would share any negative results with Florida's Child Abuse Hotline.
Updated: 10/25/2011 05:21P
Smooth Criminal? DOJ Wants Michael Jackson's Glove From Dictator's Son
The US Department of Justice targeted over $70 million in assets... (Jerome Delay/AFP/Getty Images) View Full Caption The US government is moving to seize more than $70 million in assets from the son of Equatorial Guinea dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Updated: 10/25/2011 05:17P
Addiction, Drugs and Crime: Transforming Our Strategy
The evidence has grown to a point where it is clear that the drivers of the drug problem are as much medical as anything; thus our strategy should be based on a public health model, not a criminal justice model. there is a widespread lack of knowledge
Updated: 10/25/2011 05:15P
USDOJ: Department of Justice Seeks to Recover More Than $70.8 Million in
foreign corruption offenses and was laundered in the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton.
Updated: 10/25/2011 05:04P
War crime charges filed in Oz against Lankan Prez
The indictment was filed under the Australian criminal code and is now set for hearing on November 29. Waran said that he wanted to bring these charges against the President "because I feel that he's the commander-in-chief and nothing would have
Updated: 10/25/2011 05:02P
Crimes, Courts And Cures
In "The Collapse of American Criminal Justice," William J. Stuntz—a revered Harvard law professor who died of colon cancer earlier this year at the age of 52—offers a provocative big-picture answer. Perhaps aware that "collapse" in the book's title
Updated: 10/25/2011 04:41P
A Bitter Pill For Tamils In Australia Who Want Sri Lanka President's
In a very speculative outburst of negative rhetoric a Former Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh seems to believe that the AG Mr McClelland is wrong to claim he would have breached international law if he allowed a war crimes case against the Sri Lankan
Updated: 10/25/2011 04:25P
Youth issues under scrutiny at conference
The bill, called An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act, was touted as an election promise by the Conservatives during the last federal election campaign. The promise was highly supported by the Sault's Conservative candidate,
Updated: 10/25/2011 04:19P
Hayes excited about plan to scrap long-gun registry
The bill, called An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act, was touted as an election promise by the Conservatives during the last federal election campaign. The promise was highly supported by the Sault's Conservative candidate,
Updated: 10/25/2011 04:19P
Australian PM presses Lanka over war crimes charges
“The Attorney-General has refused to grant this consent, as continuation of the proceedings would be in breach of domestic law and Australia's obligations under international law,” his spokesman said. He cited Australia's obligations under
Updated: 10/25/2011 04:19P
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