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Loss of grant funding could mean end of Sheriff's Gang, Tri-Net task forces
Lyon County Sheriff Allen Veil said the Bureau of Justice Assistance grants that fund Lyon County's participation in those programs is being cut by a minimum of 17 percent, and Veil said the LCSO is waiting to see how much the funding for those grants
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:45A
County may not receive jail construction cost figure until July
The date for Lyon County to receive the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) for the construction of the county's planned Jail/Justice complex will apparently be moved back again. Dick Faber, a Yerington City Councilman and Lyon County Engineer,
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:45A
Bingham McCutchen LLP > Bingham's Equal Justice Fellow Profiled in NYLJ
Pownell, who will graduate from New York Law School in May, hopes to follow this trend. She will work with the New York City Liberties Union, providing legal representation in both English and Spanish to students suspended from New York City schools.
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:45A
Bingham McCutchen LLP > Bingham's Equal Justice Fellow Profiled in NYLJ
Pownell, who will graduate from New York Law School in May, hopes to follow this trend. She will work with the New York City Liberties Union, providing legal representation in both English and Spanish to students suspended from New York City schools.
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:45A
Monocles and intrigue – Ratu Mara's modern South Seas tale
That has now been lodged but is given little chance of success, partly because Tonga's Chief Justice, Michael Scott, is something of a refugee from Fiji himself. Justice Scott was once on the bench in Suva but fell out with Fiji's Chief Justice,
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:45A
Davenport Lyons > Davenport Lyons' Immigration Service
Davenport Lyons is delighted to announce that it now offers Immigration Law Services. Alexa Etheridge specialises in Commercial and Business Work Permits including Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications and highly skilled migrant programme applications.
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:44A
Davenport Lyons > Are Regulators Catching Up With User Generated Content?
They are designed to give parents more information about the suitability (for children) of audiovisual content available online and on mobile phones. It seems old systems such as the 9pm watershed don't work online. Interestingly, under "parameters"
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:44A
Clayton Utz > When is an ISP liable for its users' copyright infringements?
internet service (iiNet users) have, in Australia, whilst accessing the internet by means of iiNet's internet services, communicated to the public and made copies of the whole or a substantial part of the applicant's films without their licence.
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:44A
High court blocks Kamukunji by- elections
Justice Daniel Musinga ruled that the nomination process was flawed and the court must discharge its constitutional mandate in promoting the rule of law. He added that the IIEC through its Returning Officer violated the petitioner's fundamental rights
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:44A
HC orders ED probe into Amar Singh's companies
The division bench consisting of Justices Imtiaz Murtaza and SS Tiwari in their verdict have also vacated the stay given on the arrest of Amar Singh in the case. The court has asked the ED to take up the case within two weeks and asked it to submit a
Updated: 05/20/2011 04:43A