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Va AG: Armed worship OK unless clergy bans it
AP National/International News Entertainment News from AP AP - April 11, 2011 2:45 PM ET RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A legal opinion from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says people can carry guns into houses of worship for personal protection, but churches
Updated: 04/11/2011 02:56P
Warren Leight to Become Executive Producer of Law & Order: SVU
Leight worked on Law & Order: Criminal Intent for six years beginning in 2002, and served as the show's executive producer for his last two years on the series. His other television credits include the FX series Lights Out and HBO's In Treatment.
Updated: 04/11/2011 02:36P
Widener Law Professor, Targeted For Firing, Sues Dean for Defamation
His alleged offenses include using the term “black folks” in class and using the names of law school dean Linda L. Ammons and other law school colleagues as characters in hypothetical examples for his criminal law class (a common practice,
Updated: 04/11/2011 12:30P
Burundi must free Kavumbagu, halt flawed prosecution
The government has jailed Kavumbagu for publishing an opinion column critical of Burundi's security forces, basing its treason charge on Article 570 of the criminal code, which is applicable to civilians only in times of war.
Updated: 04/11/2011 12:18P
Criminal Law: Drug Conspiracy – Prosecutorial Misconduct
By Stephanie Maniscalco Rap lyrics (1) Where a defendant convicted in a drug conspiracy argued that the prosecutor conspired with law enforcement to falsify reports or falsified reports herself, inconsistencies did not prove that the records were false
Updated: 04/11/2011 10:43A
Can 'rubbernecking' at a crash net you a traffic ticket?
slowing to a crawl and “rubbernecking” at a collision on the other side of the median could be considered “unnecessarily slow driving” under S. 132 HTA. Ignorance of the law by a person who commits an offence is not an excuse for committing the offence
Updated: 04/11/2011 10:31A
SUMMARY JUDGMENTS: Our daily legal-news aggregator for April 11, 2011
Faculty-flap, continued: Rarely does a law-school hypothetical foment such real-life grief. In February, Delaware-based Widener Law School pursued disciplinary action against Lawrence Connell, a white criminal-law professor,
Updated: 04/11/2011 10:20A
Actions against financing of terrorism and money laundering
The Minister of Finance is preparing a bill amending the Act to address this issue. Lastly, the FATF is critical of the effectiveness of the Financial Intelligence Unit Netherlands, previously the Office for the Notification of Unusual Transactions.
Updated: 04/11/2011 10:11A
Ukraine's Anticorruption Breakthrough: The New Law Introduces Compulsory
The draft of anticorruption law was submitted by Ukrainian president last year and prepared in accordance with the requirements of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, and Council of
Updated: 04/11/2011 06:37A
Criminal competition law developments - quarterly update
In his public remarks to the National Competition Law Section's Annual Conference last September, Mr. John Pecman (Senior Deputy Commissioner for Criminal Matters) noted that the majority of immunity applications received by the Criminal Branches of
Updated: 04/11/2011 06:29A
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