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High Tide: From Iran's Kitchens To FATF Fallout
Was the Wall Street Journal editorial against the Justice Department's enforcement of the FCPA a brushback pitch? More here. (Columbia Journalism Review, White Collar Crime Law Prof Blog) The FCPA Blog links out to a post examining how global
Updated: 02/17/2012 01:59P
Madison Councilman Arrested For Allegedly Prescribing OxyContin To Patients He
Vincent A. Esposito, 54, of Madison, who has an office at on Main Street in Madison, was arrested yesterday by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The arrest came after special agents of the DEA
Updated: 02/17/2012 01:59P
WRIC Richmond News and Weather - Court hearing under way on Utah's immigration law
The law created by House Bill 497 would have allowed police to check the citizenship of anybody they arrest. It was initially blocked last May by US District Judge Clark Waddoups, 14 hours after it went into effect. At the time, Waddoups pointed at
Updated: 02/17/2012 01:56P
Nature, law and order
Section 377, an ancient law of the Indian Penal Code, deals with unnatural offences, and the concerned homophobes are worried that the high court didn't go by the moth-eaten morality and made gay sex between consenting adults legal.
Updated: 02/17/2012 01:43P
Nature, law and order
Section 377, an ancient law of the Indian Penal Code, deals with unnatural offences, and the concerned homophobes are worried that the high court didn't go by the moth-eaten morality and made gay sex between consenting adults legal.
Updated: 02/17/2012 01:43P
El Centro Lawyer Quan Announces Bid For Superior Court Judge Seat
Long time El Centro attorney William Derek Quan has announced his candidacy for Superior Court Judge Seat #3. Quan opened his law firm in El Centro in 1997 and has practiced locally and throughout Southern California for over 14 years.
Updated: 02/17/2012 01:37P
MAYANMAR:Take meaningful steps towards a democratic transition, peace and
Additionally, those prisoners released on 13 January 2012 were freed under Article 401(1)[3] of the Code of Criminal Procedure which allows for prisoners' sentences to be suspended or remitted. Since the prisoners had their sentences suspended,
Updated: 02/17/2012 01:18P
Study: Military death sentence more likely for minorities
Skin color plays a role in deciding whether to execute military criminals, according to a new study by a Michigan State University law professor who found minorities in the military are twice as likely as whites to be sentenced to death.
Updated: 02/17/2012 12:35P
Violent Crime; Is there help after the fact?
A violent crime or crime of violence is an act in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon a victim. According to the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice (BJS) has listed the following five categories as violent
Updated: 02/17/2012 12:10P
With Robert Leckey, Faculty of Law's William Dawson Scholar
You can live with more than one person, but it is the idea of holding it out as a marriage that runs up against the criminal law. Lots of people would say that is a weird place to draw the line. The judge's response is that it's only when you went
Updated: 02/17/2012 11:54A
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