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Jan Brewer's Suit Over Arizona Medical Marijuana Law Is Dismissed
“It is unconscionable for Governor Brewer to continue to force very sick people to needlessly suffer by stripping them of the legal avenue through which to obtain their vital medicine," said Ezekiel Edwards, director of the ACLU Criminal Law Reform
Updated: 01/05/2012 04:29P
Pro-life groups unite behind politician's call to reopen Canadian abortion debate
The law, she said, “sets Canada apart from almost every other nation on the planet, with regard to the lack of protection for unborn human beings.” “Canada's Criminal Code provisions surrounding the legal rights of the unborn child are confusing and
Updated: 01/05/2012 04:26P
Police Worry Criminals Use Smartphones To Monitor Radio Traffic
By Carlton Purvis While following up on leads of gang activity, an unnamed law enforcement agency ended up in foot chase with one of the suspects. As an officer closed in on the suspect, he could hear his department's radio transmission,
Updated: 01/05/2012 04:22P
Hundreds in N.J. may lose school posts over failure to complete background checks
By Elizabeth Fiedler A New Jersey law that just went into effect requires school board members and charter school trustees to pass a criminal background check. More than 300 Garden State education officials must resign because they have not completed
Updated: 01/05/2012 04:16P
Hundreds in NJ may lose school posts over missing background checks
By Elizabeth Fiedler A New Jersey law that just went into effect requires school board members and charter school trustees to pass a criminal background check. More than 300 Garden State education officials must resign because they have not completed
Updated: 01/05/2012 04:15P
NJ Spotlight: Criminal Background Check Law Leaves Some School Board Members
Scores of school board members have missed the cutoff date for a new law requiring local school board members to undergo criminal background checks, leaving themselves -- and to some degree their boards -- in a kind of administrative limbo.
Updated: 01/05/2012 04:05P
Assisted dying: the government must not visit indignity on the terminally ill
But even the BMA, which used to oppose assisted dying, voted in 2005 "not to oppose legislation which alters the criminal law, but to press for robust safeguards both for patients and for doctors who do not want to be involved in such procedures.
Updated: 01/05/2012 04:05P
Research and Markets: Legal Services in Europe
The legal services market includes practitioners of law operating in every sector of the legal spectrum. These include commercial, criminal, legal aid, insolvency, labor/industrial, family and taxation law. The market's value is calculated as the total
Updated: 01/05/2012 03:42P
Criminal Law Help Available
If you got a problem speak to your attorney before you speak to the prosecuting attorney or the police. Affordable Legal Services of Thomas Sandifer provides legal representation to those in St. Charles, Jefferson, and St. Louis counties, the cities of
Updated: 01/05/2012 03:38P
Law supports Oklahoma mom who killed home invader
The reasons for having castle doctrine laws vary. Some states cite post-9/11 security concerns or the perceived vulnerability of domestic abuse victims. Others point to a distrust in the criminal justice system. Still some point to political motives
Updated: 01/05/2012 03:34P
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