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Gov't rejects Arroyo petition for medical treatment abroad
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2nd district) to seek medical treatment abroad, even as the travel restriction orders were challenged in court. “My order is a denial of the request for an ADO (allow departure order),” Justice Secretary Leila M. de Lima said
Updated: 11/08/2011 10:13A
Goodwin Procter Partner Richard M. Strassberg Admitted to American College of
Strassberg, Chair of Goodwin Procter's White Collar Crime & Government Investigations Practice, specializes in white collar criminal defense, corporate internal investigations, and complex business and financial litigation.
Updated: 11/08/2011 10:10A
Muslims face few legal options in New York City police surveillance program
The USA PATRIOT Act, passed after the 9/11 attacks, reduced legal limits on wiretaps imposed by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The same law also amended the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to allow banks to release
Updated: 11/08/2011 10:06A
Alabama's Anti-Immigrant Law Forces Attorneys To Choose Between Their Ethics
HB 56, Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law, already threatens undocumented immigrant's ability to live in their own homes, access utilities in their homes, or even receive library cards.
Updated: 11/08/2011 09:57A
Wednesday execution stayed for Texas man
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed the execution of Hank Skinner, who sued prosecutors for denying his requests for more DNA testing. Skinner, on death row for the 1993 New Year's Eve murders of his girlfriend and her two sons,
Updated: 11/08/2011 09:34A
Mental Health Courts: The Law (and Irony) of Unintended Consequences
Several years after the initiation of the Baltimore mental health court, the criminal competency statute in the state legislature was modified to require the preparation of an after care plan before releasing the defendant from the hospital.
Updated: 11/08/2011 09:33A
KCTV 5Guilty verdict for Jackson doctor ends latest saga
(AP Photo/CNN, Pool) LaToya Jackson arrives at the Criminal Justice Center, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman) A Michael Jackson fan celebrates in front of the media. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman) By ANTHONY MCCARTNEY and LINDA DEUTSCH Associated
Updated: 11/08/2011 09:31A
Legal Change Causes Court to Delay Execution
Two weeks ago, a federal magistrate recommended any action on that suit be put on hold until the state courts rule in his case. Skinner's lawyers argued to his trial court that another man, a now-deceased relative of the victims, or some unknown
Updated: 11/08/2011 09:19A
Rottenstein Law Group Applauds Report of Reduction in Kickbacks Paid by Major
The joint replacement manufacturers in 2007 agreed to pay $311 million to settle US Department of Justice claims that they paid kickbacks to surgeons in exchange for exclusively using their products, Bloomberg noted. “Prosecutors deferred criminal
Updated: 11/08/2011 09:08A
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"Remuneration for jurors is woefully inadequate, and that is the source of all sorts of other related spin-off effects, including high juror absenteeism," said the associate professor of criminal law. Stribopoulos sees inadequate compensation as the
Updated: 11/08/2011 09:04A
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