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Is Texas Ultrasound Law "Abuse" of Women?
They cannot mingle with unrelated men. A special police force, mutaween, patrols streets, shopping malls and other places to enforce such laws; the mutaween captured rare international attention in 2002 when, during a fire at a girls' school in Mecca,
Updated: 03/06/2012 08:10P
Holder's Terrorism Talk Leaves the U.S. in the Dark on Drone Strikes: View
The much-derided military system has been gradually refined over the last decade, Holder noted, making it a legitimate forum for justice in the age of terrorism. It also seems to work. The latest example was the Feb. 29 guilty plea to five war crimes
Updated: 03/06/2012 07:34P
Stanford Verdict Could Be Bad News for Attorney and 2 Law Firms Facing Related
By Martha Neil A prosecution verdict today in the criminal fraud case against onetime billionaire R. Allen Stanford could be bad news for an attorney and two law firms facing civil cases related to his crimes. Attorney Thomas Sjoblom, who formerly
Updated: 03/06/2012 07:31P
Criminal Libor Probe Is Confirmed by Justice Department in Letter to Judge
The US is conducting a criminal investigation into suspected manipulation of benchmark interest rates, the Justice Department said in a letter to a federal judge. The Feb. 27 letter to US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan was made public
Updated: 03/06/2012 07:08P
Occupiers say DC Council is targeting them
Members of Occupy DC contend that proposed changes to the District's criminal code are targeting them by prohibiting activities the Occupiers have used routinely since they arrived in October. Occupiers say they are mobilizing to protest the changes,
Updated: 03/06/2012 07:05P
Analysis: Stanford verdict could boost civil claims
Legal experts said that Tuesday's jury verdict against Stanford on 13 counts of fraud could bolster the class actions and individual cases against the firms and Sjoblom. "We now know there were bad actors and people suffered. The only question left is
Updated: 03/06/2012 07:03P
What's The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (And Why Should Rupert Murdoch Care)?
The 1977 law makes it a crime for US companies to profit from bribes to foreign officials. And there's growing curiosity about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in media circles as recent revelations involving News Corp suggest that prosecutors
Updated: 03/06/2012 07:00P
Snyder has wide-ranging plan to improve public safety
Although he hasn't given specific details yet of his proposed changes, he has said they must include crime prevention and criminal justice reforms to help former criminals gain skills and jobs. He plans to deliver the speech Wednesday at the Flint City
Updated: 03/06/2012 06:58P
Jury Finds R. Allen Stanford Guilty on 13 of 14 Criminal Counts
It found him guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, four counts of wire fraud, five counts of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy to obstruct an SEC proceeding, one count of obstruction of an SEC proceeding, and one count of conspiracy
Updated: 03/06/2012 06:41P
Federal Grants helps Sheriff's office work on DNA-testing backlog
Efforts by the Sheriff's Crime Lab to battle a backlog in DNA analysis received an extra boost this year thanks to a $342000 grant from the National Institute of Justice's DNA Backlog Reduction Program. The Sheriff's Office Forensic Science Division
Updated: 03/06/2012 06:35P
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