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Judge clears way for Great Southern action
On 11 March, Victorian Supreme Court judge Justice Clyde Croft said investors in the 2005 and 2006 Great Southern plantation schemes had earned the right to move ahead with their claims under various provisions of the Corporations Act and the ASIC Act.
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:03P
Report: Borders will close 75 more stores
The chain announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Feb. 16 and announced it would close roughly one-third of its stores nationwide. There was no word on which additional stores would be closed. Borders (NYSE: BGP) operates two other
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:03P
Resorts attempt to get around land use law by making payoffs
The Cyrus company that owns the land under their golf course and restaurant recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Not only is this an attempt to give special dispensation to a family willing to make payoffs to get around land use law, we'd be doing
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:03P
Siskind's Immigration Bulletin – March 11, 2011
ABCs of Immigration Law: J-1 Visas for Exchange Visitors; 3. Ask Visalaw.com; 4. Border and Enforcement News: Border apprehensions down 36 percent, says CBP, ICE announces more audits of hiring records, US arrests 678 with foreign drug-trafficking ties
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:03P
UST symposium to address effects of parental incarceration
The University of St. Thomas School of Law's Community Justice Project will talk about those children in ”How Are the Children? Part IV: A Symposium Exploring the Impacts of Parental Incarceration on Children” on Wednesday, March 16 from 9:00 am to
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:03P
Sheriff: Prison bills flawed
“This is not about justice, this is all about money; saving the state of Alabama money,” Smith said. “It's not about trying to help people get off drugs. It's all about getting people out of the prison system because the state is in a financial crisis.
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:03P
Gutierrez resigned to impeachment by House
MANILA, Philippines - Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez is resigned to her fate in the House committee on justice, which, she claimed, has “railroaded” the impeachment complaints
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:02P
Pakistan court declines ruling on CIA case
Chief Justice Ejaz Chaudhry said the trial court, due to convene on Wednesday, would now decide on whether Davis has immunity. Davis' lawyer, who has said he expects Davis to be charged with murder Wednesday, declined comment on the implications of
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:02P
Oregon's pretty good election law...again
Apparently, he's been moving around a lot following his divorce in 2007. Indiana Democrats have filed their own lawsuit attempting to invalidate White's election last November. And here's where Indiana's strange elections law (see, I'll get to the
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:01P
Campaign advertises renters' rights
is a joint effort of the Baltimore Homeownership Preservation Coalition and the Public Justice Center. It features television and radio public service announcements by Baltimore City Council President Jack Young and billboards on city buses.
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:01P
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