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Feds shut down 150 website domains
The IP Task Force seeks to strengthen intellectual property rights protection through heightened criminal and civil enforcement, greater coordination among federal, state and local law enforcement partners, and increased focus on international
Updated: 11/28/2011 05:23P
New York Law and John Jay to offer joint degree in law and forensic psychology
New York Law School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice announced plans on Nov. 28 to start a new joint degree program in forensic psychology and law. The program will take four years to complete, and students will finish with a Master of Arts in
Updated: 11/28/2011 05:23P
Lewis Diuguid | Homosexual sex law in Kansas must go
The Kansas Equality Coalition is on the right track wanting the state to abolish a law that makes homosexual sex a criminal offense. Thomas Witt, the coalition's chairman, told the Lawrence Journal World that the 2003 Kansas law remains on the books
Updated: 11/28/2011 04:36P
Chief Magistrate walks in to court reform
The newly crowned chief flagged a desire to consolidate services for vulnerable defendants at the territory's co-located halls of justice. And she also pushed for the restorative justice system – which puts young offenders face to face with their
Updated: 11/28/2011 03:53P
New York Law School Announces New Joint Degree Program in Forensic Psychology
New York Law School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice announce the creation of a dual-degree MA-JD program in forensic psychology and law to train attorneys with a specialization in mental disability law to begin in the fall 2012 semester.
Updated: 11/28/2011 03:39P
New Nevada law to protect people who report animal abuse may instead keep
The Reno Gazette-Journal first reported Sunday that the final version signed into law makes animal abuse cases confidential and gives criminal penalties to officials who release reports or talk about cases. "The provision makes the investigation
Updated: 11/28/2011 03:37P
Children's safety: Negligence is punishable
Negligence or inattentiveness that leads to a child's injury or accidental death is an act punishable by the UAE Penal Law. "Parents could be prosecuted if they abandon their children or fail to pay proper attention to them and if the act leads to the
Updated: 11/28/2011 03:02P
DOJ: Alabama immigration law could hamper enforcement
Top Justice Department lawyers say Alabama's new immigration law could actually hamper immigration enforcement rather than being the crackdown that supporters favor. Two assistant attorneys general are in Birmingham on Monday meeting with business
Updated: 11/28/2011 03:01P
Civil courts can execute lok adalat awards: Supreme Court
Writing the judgment, Justice Sathasivam said: “Even if a matter is referred by a criminal court under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act and by virtue of the deeming provisions, the award passed by the lok adalat based on a compromise has
Updated: 11/28/2011 02:58P
Algeria submits new press law to parliament
The law, which parliament began debating Monday, removes criminal penalties for defamation and replaces them with fines. Journalists, however, have complained that the fines are too onerous and the law spells out some 14 areas as off limits to coverage
Updated: 11/28/2011 02:52P
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