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Ministry directed to prepare draft law on prize bonds' business
The committee discussed the bill titled" The criminal Law (Amendment) bill, 2010" and directed the ministries to implement the current laws, envisaging 10 years imprisonment and 0. 5 million fine for those found guilty of illegal sale of prize bond
Updated: 03/25/2011 12:59P
Signs calling President Obama a racial epithet found at University of Kentucky
Clark took the sign to his law-school class on racism and criminal law and posted a copy of it on his Facebook page. His law professor, Roberta Harding, said the sign looked juvenile, yet someone had gone to a lot of trouble to make it.
Updated: 03/25/2011 11:56A
In Syrian flashpoint town, more deaths reported
Syria's emergency law has been in effect since 1963. The law allows the government to make preventive arrests and override constitutional and penal code statutes. It also bars detainees who haven't been charged from filing court complaints or from
Updated: 03/25/2011 11:14A
Some dogs can enter eateries
Police Chief Clay Mahaney said officers are summoned to investigate criminal law violations. and they believed the dispute between Reeve and the restaurant was a civil law matter. “If a business refuses to serve someone, there is no criminal violation
Updated: 03/25/2011 10:58A
President Obama slammed in racist signs found at the University of Kentucky
A second poster was found by law student Ches Clark Thursday morning. He brought it to his class on racism and criminal law, and posted it to his Facebook page. His law professor, Roberta Harding, said it appeared that someone had taken a lot of time
Updated: 03/25/2011 10:53A
Signs Using Racial Slur for Obama Reported at Kentucky Campus
On Thursday morning, UK Law School student Ches Clark found a sign on a bus shelter that said "How Do You Spell N----r? OBAMA," the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Clark took the sign to his law school class on racism and criminal law and posted it on
Updated: 03/25/2011 10:46A
Pakistan's Suffragettes
Says Omer Aftab, director White Ribbon Campaign, an initiative where men seek to end violence against women, it has taken 10 years to convince men that it is not okay to beat their wives – that too, by approaching the issue in a roundabout manner.
Updated: 03/25/2011 10:43A
State police want judge arrested
Salisbury Resident Trooper Mark Lauretano wants the judge arrested, saying her actions amount to “coercion and a violation of criminal law.” Klatt wouldn't say why she refused to sign the warrant for the man singled out by police as the assailant in a
Updated: 03/25/2011 10:14A
Police: Judge Breaking the Law
"The fact that Judge Klatt is currently holding onto a valid arrest warrant for the accused and refusing to sign it until and unless she receives an arrest warrant for the victim is coercion and a violation of criminal law," Lauretano said in a
Updated: 03/25/2011 09:41A
Column: Fed Prosecutors Wasting Time Making a Criminal of Barry Bonds
There is a growing school of legal thought that says we have a dangerous tendency to “overcriminalize,” using criminal law to try to solve every single social problem in America. Some things are mistakes and not crimes. And some people are jerks,
Updated: 03/25/2011 08:54A
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