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Sea Star Line agrees to guilty plea, fine in price-fixing case
Jacksonville-based Sea Star Line LLC has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $14.2 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices in the coastal water freight transportation industry, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Updated: 11/18/2011 10:05A
'Smash and Grab': Property Seized During Dispensary Raids Boosts Law
Translation: If you sell drugs (or do anything else illegal), prosecutors can confiscate your money, anything bought using that money, and anything used to make that money. For example, if you drive your car to a drug deal and get busted, odds are that
Updated: 11/18/2011 10:04A
Quebec's plea to maintain gun registry falls flat
C-10 would change the Criminal Code, the State Immunity Act, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and other laws, and would enact the new Justice for Victims of
Updated: 11/18/2011 09:51A
Are Facebook's terms of service the law of the land?
The department has no intention of abusing that power, said Richard Downing, deputy chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of Justice's Criminal Division. “The DOJ is in no way interested in bringing action against people who may
Updated: 11/18/2011 09:42A
Lying on 'Facebook' could soon send you to the slammer
People are now pressing lawmakers to re-write the law, to prevent an administration push to toughen penalties from treating online mischief-makers the same as criminal hackers. The debate centres on a law known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
Updated: 11/18/2011 09:42A
Lord Carloway recommends major changes to Scottish justice system
He said: ''The sudden over-ruling of previously well-established and accepted law is not the best way to bring about change in any criminal justice system. ''It leads to instant reactions, rather than measured and thought-through plans for reform.
Updated: 11/18/2011 09:35A
Notes: Penn State trustees hire law firm
AP Penn State's trustees hired a large Pittsburgh-based law firm to represent them in relation to the child sex abuse scandal for which three current and former university employees face criminal charges. Reed Smith spokeswoman Jamie Moss said
Updated: 11/18/2011 09:19A
The Globe and Mail
Investors have become increasingly fidgety about the prospect of Spain and Italy succumbing to the same bond market pressures that have seen three countries bailed out. Stocks have taken a battering as borrowing rates jumped, not just for Spain and
Updated: 11/18/2011 09:02A
Attending law school
Going to a law school is challenging and competitive, but it is still a good choice for some students. "Law schools take people of all majors," said Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Stacy Parker, who got her law school degree from the University
Updated: 11/18/2011 08:51A
Okla. Prosecutors Say Millions Collected In Cases
$11 million was collected from criminal cases and another $23 million from civil cases. Beyond that, Coats says his office collected more than $3 million in forfeitures, much of which was distributed to state and local law enforcement agencies.
Updated: 11/18/2011 08:44A
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