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Pepsi and ISS Settlements Show African Americans Face Onerous Employment Barriers
As early as 1987, the EEOC stated that barring people from employment based on their criminal records disproportionately excludes African Americans and Latinos because they are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.
Updated: 01/20/2012 04:35P
Family Responsibilities? Wrongful-Death Suit Filed Against Criminal
After lawyers failed to seat a jury for Marshall's criminal trial in December 2011, Marshall offered to plead guilty -- a deal accepted by the prosecution, says Dallas solo Gary Unell, Marshall's criminal-defense attorney. Marshall pleaded guilty on
Updated: 01/20/2012 04:35P
News Corp executives could face US legal action
Legal experts said his presence in the States increased the likelihood the wrongdoing could fall foul of US privacy laws. Casey Cooper, a partner at US law firm Baker Botts, said: "US criminal jurisdiction is likely to turn on whether the alleged
Updated: 01/20/2012 04:31P
Looking for Signs of Crime in Megaupload's Memos
Coming just a day after very public debates about the implications of two antipiracy bills in Congress, the Megaupload seizure also has raised concerns about how law enforcement agencies focus on particular Web sites as being “rogue” operations that
Updated: 01/20/2012 04:20P
Copyright accused seeking bail
The department and the FBI said seven individuals and two corporations had been charged in the US with running an international organised criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy through Megaupload.com and related
Updated: 01/20/2012 04:08P
Student righting war wrongs
SIMON McKenzie's passion for humanitarian law has earned him a scholarship to work at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He is this year's recipient of the Tim Hawkins Memorial Scholarship, in memory of Tim Hawkins, a talented commerce-law
Updated: 01/20/2012 04:06P
Brothel reforms on agenda
Under present laws sex workers can only work alone or with a partner but one person is not allowed to manage that other partner. "The references have been made in other jurisdictions to removing references from the Criminal Code.
Updated: 01/20/2012 03:58P
Knives sharpened on shiv crime
Nicholls said prosecutors found they were able to work within the parameters of the existing sections of the Criminal Code, so there was no need to push changes to legislation. During the past four or five years, Nicholls has seen a rise in offences
Updated: 01/20/2012 03:49P
Department of Justice site hacked after Megaupload shutdown, Anonymous claims
Officials claim megaupload.com was running an international criminal operation that allowed users to illegally access movies and music which they did not own. As Sari Horowitz and Cecilia Kang explained : Federal authorities shut down one of the Web's
Updated: 01/20/2012 03:40P
Manalapan Woman Charged with Sexual Assault on 5-Year-Old Girl
Led by US Attorneys' Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute
Updated: 01/20/2012 03:30P
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