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Littler Mendelson | Massachusetts Employers Face New Obligations When
The CORI database is maintained by the Commonwealth's Department of Criminal Justice Information Services ("DCJIS"). Currently, Massachusetts law restricts access to CORI to employers that have successfully petitioned the Commonwealth for access
Updated: 03/10/2012 01:06A
Trooper charged with OUI keeps job, with conditions
By David Hench dhench@mainetoday.com Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy decided Friday that a state police trooper who was caught driving drunk on the Maine Turnpike in December must avoid any misconduct for three years or risk losing his
Updated: 03/10/2012 01:06A
Panel disciplines drunk driving trooper
By David Hench dhench@mainetoday.com Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy decided Friday that a state police trooper who was caught driving drunk on the Maine Turnpike in December must avoid any misconduct for three years or risk losing his
Updated: 03/10/2012 01:05A
A trooper's fate
By David Hench dhench@mainetoday.com VASSALBORO - Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy decided Friday that a state police trooper who drove drunk on the Maine Turnpike in December must avoid any misconduct for three years or risk losing his
Updated: 03/10/2012 01:04A
Iowa chief justice wants specialized courts
TIPTON, Iowa — Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady says Iowa courts can do more than just settle disputes and dispense justice. With some tweaking of the system — and an extra $10 million a year from the Legislature — the courts can help grow
Updated: 03/10/2012 12:34A
Defense Team Sees Appellate Issues Aplenty in Stanford Case
Saying it "wasn't OK for Allen Stanford to lie, cheat and steal for 20 years," prosecutor William Stellmach of the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, asked jurors to find the Houston financier guilty of all 14 criminal counts against him.
Updated: 03/10/2012 12:12A
The end of the Lacey Act
The FOCUS Act would amend the Lacey Act, removing criminal liability for a range of foreign laws pertaining to animal and plant life. The Lacey Act currently permits US officials to find foreign laws to leverage fines, forfeitures, and prosecutions
Updated: 03/10/2012 12:11A
John F. Swaim: Law-abiding citizens are under assault
The Mountain Gate home of accused double murderer Thomas John Allen McDonald had to be repeatedly visited by law enforcement in recent history and housed two criminals with long rap sheets with multiple failures to appear? That sounds like a mega drain
Updated: 03/09/2012 11:08P
Local law firm adds associate
Now, due to expansion, the firm has added Carissa K. Seidl, who will practice in the areas of family law, juvenile law and criminal law. Seidl practices primarily in family law which includes dissolution of marriage, legal separation, annulment,
Updated: 03/09/2012 11:06P
Wisconsin governor has legal defense fund
The Republican governor released a statement saying he would use the defense fund to help pay two criminal defense lawyers “to review documents and assist me in cooperating” with the so-called John Doe secret probe, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Updated: 03/09/2012 10:51P
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