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Houston restaurateur gets 15 years for sex trafficking

Posted on May 13, 2008
"A Houston restaurant operator was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Monday for his role in a sex trafficking ring that lured women and girls from Central America and Mexico and forced them into prostitution."

South Africa: First child trafficking case in court

Posted on May 13, 2008
This is the first case brought to court in South Africa since provisions governing human trafficking in the law came into effect in January . . .

Malaysia: Man charged with trafficking Thai women

Posted on May 13, 2008
Ee Chin Kai pleaded innocent in a court in southern Malaysia on Monday to two charges of bringing in the 27-year-old women and exploiting them to work as prostitutes, said Ee's lawyer, Noordin Hussin . . .

Guardian: Lithuanian woman trafficked into UK forced with men up to 30x per day

Posted on May 13, 2008
The young woman, known only as Julie for legal reasons, was kept prisoner, beaten and made to work 19-hour days as a prostitute earning her bosses Ł8,000 a month, the court was told.

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Kansas: Man, woman indicted in sale of child for sex acts

Posted on May 13, 2008
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts.

Ohio: FBI Investigates Human Trafficking In Miami Valley

Posted on May 13, 2008
?It is not a problem of illegal aliens, it is not a problem of immigration. It is an issue of domestic servitude, which is a sex trade.?

Study details Spokane-area human trafficking: moms selling kids as prostitutes

Posted on May 13, 2008
One of those surveyed in the study said about a third of those selling sex in the Spokane area had been sold into prostitution by their mothers . . .

Texas prosecution may test bigamy law

Posted on May 13, 2008
This is the House of Yahweh: a different, even darker sect that the state has been investigating for years. Authorities in February charged the group's 73-year-old leader with performing polygamous weddings and forcing about 40 children -- some as young as 11 -- to work jobs at his 44-acre compound.

N.Y. Judges to Lawmakers: No Pay Raises for Us, No Hearings for You

Posted on May 13, 2008
But ever since the chief judge sued the state legislature for a pay raise, a number of the state's jurists have been recusing themselves from hearing cases involving state lawmakers and the law firms that many are affiliated with. Now the state Commission on Judicial Conduct has, in effect, told the judges to knock it off, according to the New York Daily News.

NY Times: Republican legislators not harmed by vote to redefine marriage

Posted on May 13, 2008
For the few Assembly Republicans who ultimately supported the bill, the vote was potentially far more risky: a public break with their own party on an issue that at the time was still considered in some quarters to be radioactive, potentially even career-killing.

California mulls steep tax on sexually oriented businesses

Posted on May 13, 2008
A California bill proposing a 25 percent tax on revenues from adult entertainment would do little to ease the state's budget shortfall and would cost the state money by encouraging its pornography industry to move, opponents said on Monday as lawmakers reviewed the bill ...

Muslim threats force out disabled teacher with dog

Posted on May 13, 2008
A Muslim high school student's intolerance for a service dog needed by a student teacher with a disability has reportedly prompted the student teacher to abandon the last 10 hours of his scheduled assignment at Technical High School in St. Cloud, Minn.

?Intimidation? of pastors at issue

Posted on May 13, 2008
For almost the first 180 years of American history, pastors routinely addressed political issues and candidates from the pulpit.

Thomas More Law Center Seeks Attorney: Preference for Military Lawyers or Veterans

Posted on May 13, 2008
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is seeking attorneys with at least five years federal court experience in litigation or appellate work.

Unsealed Court Records Show AG Actively Undermined Planned Parenthood Prosecution

Posted on May 13, 2008
Operation Rescue has obtained court records, which were unsealed last week, that show Attorney General Stephen Six actively undermined District Attorney Phill Kline's prosecution of 107 criminal charges against Planned Parenthood.

Cert Denied In O?Hare Expansion Challenge By Church

Posted on May 13, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in St. John’s United Church v. Chicago, IL, (Docket No. 07-1127) (Order List). In the case, the 7th Circuit had rejected a challenge to Chicago’s use of eminent domain to take a church cemetery as part of the city’s expansion of O’Hare Airport...

Young, evangelical ? for Obama?

Posted on May 13, 2008
College-age and 20-something Christians may be leaving the GOP, but only 5 percent of young evangelicals have joined the Democrats, according to the Pew survey. The other 10 percent are wandering the political wilderness, somewhere between "independent" and "unaffiliated...

EU report charts the collapse of family life

Posted on May 13, 2008
Almost one in every five pregnancies ends in abortion. The marriage rate fell by 24 per cent between 1980 and 2006 . . .

Borden v. East Brunswick School District: Clarifying First Amendment Jurisprudence in the Public School Context

Posted on May 13, 2008
When does a public school employee cross the line between acceptable ?supervision? of student prayer sessions and impermissible ?participation?? Is the line crossed if a high school football coach takes a knee and silently bows his head with his players as they pray before taking the field? According to the District Court for the District of New Jersey, the answer is no.

Canadian Christian Ministry Drops Code of Conduct Under Human Rights Tribunal Pressure

Posted on May 13, 2008
Christian Horizons, the non-profit, Christian charitable organization has dropped its requirement that employees sign their basic morality statement, in compliance with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal's ruling against them.

NPR Interview: ?Homosexuality Panel Squelched by Gay Activists?

Posted on May 13, 2008
"If you literally believe in a literal hell where you are going to burn and fry and be in excruciating pain not just for a moment but for eternity because you're a gay person, then how do you go to psychotherapy in which somebody like me would be telling you that to have a happy life, in this life, you need to learn to accept who you are?" he asks ...

Colombia?s Attorney General Pushes Catholic Hospitals to Provide Abortions

Posted on May 13, 2008
Colombia's Attorney General, Edgardo Maya is insisting that the nation's private medical institutions will have to provide abortions, despite conscientious objection.

No bail for N.J. man in Thailand child porn case

Posted on May 13, 2008
Corliss faces 10-20 years in prison.

?Gay rights groups launch hospital rating system?

Posted on May 13, 2008
"Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients."

Bush sending consensus nominees to Senate

Posted on May 13, 2008
"The White House is being realistic knowing that it's the end of the [presidential] term, and they are not going to get their people," says Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond Law School professor. "Maybe it's better to get somebody than nobody."