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Registration optional in Hindu marriage law
The draft law adds another 150 days to the deadline. BSS adds: Four other draft acts okayed by the cabinet are: The Bangladesh Water Act 2012, the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2012, the Registration (Amendment) Act 2012 and the
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:52P
President Joyce Banda shakes up Malawi
Banda said she was pinning her hopes on donors to re-open aid taps after she started talking to them on possible resumption of aid frozen over governance and macroeconomic concerns. Banda was sworn in on April 7, 2012 just hours after officials
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:49P
Rutgers Student Gets Jail Time in Webcam Case
the first part of the legal odyssey in an unusual, emotional and tragic case dealing with the consequences of bad decisions by young people in the Internet age — but certainly not ending the debate surrounding New Jersey's tough hate-crimes laws.
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:34P
Study: 2000 people falsely convicted in US since 1989
The earliest cases in the database date back to 1989, when DNA evidence freed its first two prisoners. "We can figure that as sort of the modern period in exonerations because DNA was a big game-changer," said University of Michigan Law Professor
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:33P
Texas Among Top 3 States in Total Exonerations
by Brandi Grissom and Ryan Murphy Michael Morton stands in a Williamson County courtroom with his attorneys, John Raley of the Houston law firm Raley & Bowick, and Nina Morrison of the New York-based Innocence Project. The University of Michigan Law
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:28P
Ravi Sentenced to 30 Days in Rutgers Webcam Case
the first part of the legal odyssey in an unusual, emotional and tragic case dealing with the consequences of bad decisions by young people in the Internet age — but certainly not ending the debate surrounding New Jersey's tough hate-crimes laws.
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:16P
Ravi Sentenced to 30 Days in Rutgers Webcam Case
the first part of the legal odyssey in an unusual, emotional and tragic case dealing with the consequences of bad decisions by young people in the Internet age — but certainly not ending the debate surrounding New Jersey's tough hate-crimes laws.
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:16P
Column: A nightmare in Tewksbury
The government says the rooms were used to “facilitate” a crime. It does not say the Caswells knew or even that they were supposed to know what was going on in all their rooms all the time. Civil forfeiture law treats citizens worse than criminals,
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:12P
Former Rutgers student in webcam case gets 30 days in jail
the first part of the legal odyssey in an unusual, emotional and tragic case dealing with the consequences of bad decisions by young people in the Internet age -- but certainly not ending the debate surrounding New Jersey's tough hate-crimes laws.
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:09P
Ravi, Romney and Anti-Gay Bullying: What a Difference Fifty Years Makes
The Dharun Ravi verdict and sentencing represents a dramatic shift in society's view of anti-gay bullying and of bias crimes against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Just compare what Ravi did to Tyler Clementi to what Mitt Romney did to
Updated: 05/21/2012 02:08P
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