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UH Law Center Blakely Advocacy Institute Takes National Stage
In conjunction with the national championship tournament, the Law Center also is sponsoring a symposium - "Criminal Enforcement of Environmental Laws: What is the Current Climate?" - with a panel of distinguished environmental attorneys.
Updated: 01/24/2012 01:57P
Sheriff deputy guilty of illegally accessing Law Enforcement Information Network
By Jameson Cook Macomb County Sheriff's Sgt. David Willis was found guilty Tuesday of illegally accessing the Law Enforcement Information Network to check the criminal record of a county employee and passing the information to a friend.
Updated: 01/24/2012 01:55P
Supreme Court Decision Limits Police GPS Tracking
by Justin Davis on January 24, 2012 The US Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement agents may not use GPS tracking devices to gather evidence on suspects under investigation, although the ruling still leaves many questions for criminal justice
Updated: 01/24/2012 01:34P
Law Commission's new draft wants khap panchayats on marriages declared illegal
The penal law lacks direct application to the illegal acts of such caste assemblies and needs to be amended. Pointing out that the same gotra marriages are not prohibited by law, whatever may be the view in old time, the Law Commission says the Hindu
Updated: 01/24/2012 01:06P
Identify Criminals On New Website
Crime fighting in Cleveland is going high-tech. A new website is helping law enforcement officials identify their most wanted suspects. NewsChannel 9 sat down with officers who say the website is key is solving crimes. The Cleveland Police Department
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:51P
Erdogan says French genocide law is 'racist'
Although Ankara argues that the French law violates the principle of free speech, Turkey has a history of prosecutions and criminal investigations of people who assert that the killings were in fact genocide. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:45P
Tougher laws sought to deal with Tenn. gangs
City officials want to persuade the Legislature to include prosecution of criminal street gangs under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which according to current state law applies only to sex trafficking and large-scale drug
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:34P
N.B. blogger accused of libelling police officer
Hughes said there are two sections regarding defamatory libel in the Canadian Criminal Code and it will be interesting to see which is used in the LeBlanc case. "One of them was dealt with by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 in a decision called
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:34P
Reading The Satanic Verses not a punishable offence, say legal experts
Whoever may give you this opinion, if we are able to receive a copy of what law it was banned under, all of this would be clear. But right now it's not." The state government can prosecute the authors under Section 153B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:11P
Those who question the law whenever it stands in their way an endangered species
Current repeated attempts to portray the International Criminal Court as some oppressor and, therefore, people suspected of having planned and executed the 2007 post-election violence as the victims are misleading. The real victims of this violence are
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:10P
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