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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - Bachara Law, PC
We provide legal assistance to clients throughout the Lower Cape Fear Region, in fields ranging from elder law, wills & estates and family law to criminal defense. Bachara Law, PC counsels clients with respect to such essential matters as business
Updated: 03/27/2012 05:27P

UNHCR Vote in Geneva - India opens a can of worms
Sub – Article 12(1) stipulates that 'All persons are equal before the law and are entitled to the equal protection of the law'. If the law were to provide a mechanism say only for victims (or relatives of victims ) of alleged war crimes committed in
Updated: 03/27/2012 05:13P

Canadian Court Legalizes Brothels, Support Staff For Prostitutes
That's what Valerie Scott — legal coordinator of the Sex Professionals of Canada organization — said today after emerging from a courtroom where the Supreme Court of Ontario struck down two provisions in the criminal code against prostitution.
Updated: 03/27/2012 05:12P

'Lust' is not a crime, say Strauss-Kahn lawyers
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's lawyers have said their client, placed under formal investigation Monday for alleged involvement in a prostitution ring, was being hounded for “the offence of lust” which is “not forbidden in the penal code”.
Updated: 03/27/2012 04:58P

SGA to take on Signal disposal
The Student Government Association has decided to consider an official response to whether the disposal of approximately 250 copies of The Signal constitutes a violation of the student Code of Conduct or criminal law. “I think what they're asking from
Updated: 03/27/2012 04:58P

Trayvon Martin's parents speak during hate crimes and racial profiling forum
Other lawmakers and witnesses called for a strengthening of hate-crime laws or a repeal of "stand your ground" laws, such as the one in Florida, that allow residents to use deadly force when they feel threatened. "Trayvon Martin is no longer with us
Updated: 03/27/2012 04:52P

Strauss-Kahn's French lawyers: Lust isn't a crime
He's being reproached for a kind of crime of lust." And even if he had known they were prostitutes, Leclerc added, it would have been a "classic relationship between a prostitute and client" and therefore legal. In France it is not against the law to
Updated: 03/27/2012 04:46P

Strauss-Kahn's French lawyers: Lust isn't a crime
He's being reproached for a kind of crime of lust." And even if he had known they were prostitutes, Leclerc added, it would have been a "classic relationship between a prostitute and client" and therefore legal. In France it is not against the law to
Updated: 03/27/2012 04:46P

'Stand Your Ground' Law At Center of Debate After Trayvon Martin Death
By Ari Odzer State Senator Gwen Margolis on Tuesday said she wants the "Stand Your Ground" law repealed or modified, even though she voted for it in 2005 after Trayvon Martin's death. State Senator Gwen Margolis on Tuesday said she wants the "Stand
Updated: 03/27/2012 04:39P

The Law-Abiding Citizen
Back in 2005, the NRA's lobbyist Marion Hammer submitted the model legislation for the “Stand Your Ground” law to ALEC, which then unanimously adopted the measure in its criminal justice task force, which then proposed it first in the state of Florida,
Updated: 03/27/2012 04:35P