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'Personhood,' a new tack in abortion fight
Many doctors and women's health advocates say the proposals would cause a dangerous intrusion of criminal law into medical care, jeopardizing women's rights and even their lives. The amendment in Mississippi would ban virtually all abortions,
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:51A
Push to Declare a Human Egg a "Person" Offers New Tack on Abortion Debate
The so-called “personhood amendments” have pro-life advocates and abortion proponents at odds, with many doctors and women's health advocates saying the proposals would cause a dangerous intrusion of criminal law into medical care, jeopardizing women's
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:47A
Vaskevics sentenced
Vaskevics was convicted under the Criminal Law's Section 219, Part 2: intentionally setting out false information in a declaration of income, property or transactions, or other declaration of a financial nature presc ... The article you requested can
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:33A
Tymoshenko's colleague says case against her father-in-law could be reopened
KIEV, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office is pushing for a closed criminal case against the father-in-law of embattled ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko to be reopened, Tymoshenko's colleague Oleksandr Turchynov said on
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:29A
Crime report for Oct. 26
By Anonymous Listed information, including addresses, has been gathered from arrest and incident reports publicly available at area law-enforcement agencies. If your name appears here and your case was dismissed or you were cleared of the crime,
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:17A
Selective justice for critics of St. Tammany Parish's coroner Peter Galvan
By James Gill The law that makes it a criminal offense to disclose a complaint to the state Ethics Board is so over the top that charges have seldom, if ever, been filed under it. It has often been violated, but DAs generally prefer to concentrate on
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:08A
Oil Boomtowns See Rise In Drunken Driving And Bar Fights, Threatening To
The number of sentences handed out for criminal offenses was up 35 percent in 2010, he said. Sheriff Clinton Walters said his officers are handling about a 25 percent increase from last year in everything from warrants for people who fail to appear in
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:03A
Push to Declare a Human Egg a 'Person' Offers New Tack on Abortion Debate
The so-called “personhood amendments” have pro-life advocates and abortion proponents at odds, with many doctors and women's health advocates saying the proposals would cause a dangerous intrusion of criminal law into medical care, jeopardizing women's
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:54A
Media law
Those papers include counsels' written arguments, affidavits and witness statements, and correspondence between the Serious Fraud Office and the US Department of Justice. Tubbs ruled that Tesler should be extradited to the US, where he is wanted on
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:51A
The (Non-Gupta) AM Roundup: Altria Mistrial, Hague Candidates, More
AP Whither our Criminal Justice System?: Crime has fallen dramatically, but levels of violence remain higher than in 1950. Does the legal system share some of the blame? Paul G. Cassell, a professor of criminal law at the SJ Quinney College of Law at
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:27A
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