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Cuba: Stop Imprisoning Peaceful Dissidents
(Washington, DC) – The conviction of six dissidents in summary trials for doing no more than exercising their fundamental rights highlights the continuing abuse of the criminal justice system to repress dissent in Cuba, Human Rights Watch said today.
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:54A
British Prisons Minister Reportedly Allows Inmate to Father Child Behind Bars
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke told the Telegraph that he had never "personally authorized" the request, even though his own department said hours before that it had been his decision. This is not the first controversy both Clarke and Blunt have been
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:53A
Ex-DoJ chief Devanadera faces graft, malversation charges before Sandiganbayan
By Tetch Torres MANILA, Philippines—Acting Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro has approved the filing of eight criminal charges against former Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera before the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan for allegedly granting illegal
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:53A
Several South Florida canals to be cleaned-up as part of lawsuit settlement
The decision to clean up these waterways results from a 1998 lawsuit by the environmental group Earthjustice against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to establish standards and cleanup plans for polluted Florida water bodies.
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:53A
Suit Challenges Break For Cigarette Makers in Appeals
House Health Care Appropriations Chairman Matt Hudson, R-Naples, said the concern is that lawsuits could drive those tobacco companies into bankruptcy if the bond relief goes away. He said that would leave the state in a “no man's land” in continuing
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:53A
SC's Tim Scott asks Obama call off National Labor Relations Board in Boeing case.
AP CHARLESTON, SC — A South Carolina congressman has asked President Barack Obama to intervene in a National Labor Relations Board lawsuit against Boeing. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports 1st District Rep. Tim Scott spoke with Obama on
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:52A
Director Bill Haney discusses <i>The Last Mountain</i>, opening June 9 at The
And because I was within 100 feet of a skunk cabbage that was itself within 50 feet of an intermittent stream the size of the palm of your hand, I needed 12 months of permitting, three erosion-control barriers, two soil-protection fences.
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:51A
As Missouri River flooding looms, SD governor urges evacuations
Traffic in and out was brisk as Highway Patrol troopers manned the main intersection to keep everyone moving, including the 70 trucks being used to bring dirt and manpower to work on the levee system. Two Blackhawk helicopters placed half-ton sandbags
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:51A
HUDAK's UNREALISTIC PLATFORM
They'll eliminate traffic congestion. They'll find savings of two percent on programs outside health care and education that'll amount to $600 million in the first full year climbing to $2.3 billion by 2015. And like most political neophytes,
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:51A
Police must 'assume nothing' if suspect confesses
Psychology professor Saul Kassin of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York says suspects can confess for all kinds of reasons, including the belief that they will be exonerated at a later point. Other reasons he cited were
Updated: 06/02/2011 08:51A
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