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LAW.COM Newswire Highlights October 14, 2008

Posted on October 14, 2008
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Despite Strict Bans, Gun Culture Takes Hold in China

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008. "In China, a ban on private ownership of rifles, pistols, and even gun replicas is a core tenet of social policy...

Guns are Everywhere, In Florida, 60,000 Seized In Five Years

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008. "Many of the best-armed criminals call Orlando and the rest of Florida home, reports the Orlando Sentinel...

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Police, Prosecutors Still Rely On Unreliable Eyewitness Accounts

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008. "The fallibility of eyewitness testimony shown by DNA exonerations is not a relic of the past...

Federal Sentence Panel May Urge More Non Prison Sanctions

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008. <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>"As the inmate population climbs toward 2...

High Risk Of Error in single Witness "Showup" Identifications

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008. "A split-second, one-person identification cost a Dallas man 22 years of his life on a rape conviction that DNA evidence later invalidated...

"The Market is Right" For An Increase in Insurance Fraud

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008. "Many Washington, D.C., area residents are torching their cars hoping for a quick insurance check, reports the Washington Post...

More Than One-Third of New Atlanta Cops Have Criminal Records

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008. "More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have been arrested or cited for a crime, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

Community Law Enforcement Anticrime Model Hard to Sustain

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 14, 2008 "Soon after Cincinnati started a crime-fighting campaign that enlists clergy, community leaders, and police to quell gang gunplay, it was hailed a success...

ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Enacted

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Lexology, October 14, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KHPC7E" target="_blank">ADA Amendments Act of 2008 enacted</a> Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC "In the midst of the proposed economic legislation being negotiated and passed in Washington, D...

Ninth Circuit Expected to Rule on E-Mail "Interceptions" Under Wiretap Act

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Lexology, October 14, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KHPC78" target="_blank">Ninth Circuit expected to rule on e-mail interceptions under the Wiretap Act</a> Hogan & Hartson LLP "The U...

Securities Exchange Commission Provides Guidance Regarding Company Web Sites

Posted on October 14, 2008
Source: Lexology, October 14, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KHPC21" target="_blank">SEC provides guidance regarding company Web sites</a> Burns & Levinson LLP "In August 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC ) published an interpretive release to provide guidance regarding the use of company Web sites for publication of information pertinent to investors...

Columbus Day Holiday

Posted on October 10, 2008
Happy Columbus Day everyone. We will be back on Tuesday October 14.

Increasing Numbers of Inmate Cell Phones Called "Huge Threat"

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 10, 2008. "Pennsylvania drug kingpin Ronald Whethers used cell phones to run a narcotics empire from prison, leading to a state law prohibiting cell phones behind bars...

Should Congress Study Ending Mandatory Minimums?

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, "Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) recently chronicled lawmakers' rush in the 1950s to enact tough mandatory minimum sentences for what they saw as the viral spread of illegal drugs throughout the country...

Virginia Prison System Eliminates 330 Jobs, Closes 6 Facilities

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 10, 2008. "The Virginia Department of Corrections, the state's largest agency with 13,606 employees, will bear the brunt of new state job cuts announced by Gov...

Chicago's Record of Prosecuting Domestic Violence

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 10, 2008. "For every man convicted in a Cook County court of beating his wife or girlfriend, five men brought in on similar charges walk away legally unscathed, says the Chicago Tribune...

Is Posting Drunk Driving Suspects On Net "Wall of Shame" Legal?

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 10, 2008. <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>"A defendants on Nassau County, N...

Robbery, Property Crime Could Rise as Economy Fails

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 10, 2008. "If New York's economy sinks to depths not seen in decades, will crime return with a vengeance? The New York Times notes that the last time stocks on Wall Street fell hard, in 1987, crime was exploding, and the city saw historic highs in murders...

Keeping a Wary Eye on Crime as Economy Sinks

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: NYTimes.com, October 10, 2008. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/nyregion/10crime...

Federal Trade Commission Requires Identity Theft Programs by November 1, 2008

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Lexology, October 10, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KH1100" target="_blank">FTC requires identity theft prevention programs by November 1, 2008</a> Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that financial institutions and creditors develop and implement identity theft prevention programs by November 1, 2008, pursuant to regulations (see 16 C...

first Amendment Trumps Virginia Spam Statute

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Lexology, October 10, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KH113C" target="_blank">Virginia - First Amendment trumps Virginia spam statute</a> Wiley Rein LLP "On September 12, the Virginia Supreme Court reversed the conviction of notorious spammer Jeremy Jaynes, who had been sentenced to nine years in prison following a 2004 trial...

Searching: Researchers Teach Computers to Recognize Objects in Images

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, October 10, 2008. <a href="http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hBMYx0Gs8oP0G4n0Gudl0E4" target="_blank">Researchers Teach Computers To Recognize Objects In Images</a> "Some 60,000 photos were manually tagged with keywords by Penn State computer scientists to associate keywords with the pixel patterns that depict the objects in images...

Entellium CEO, CFO Charged With Fraud

Governor David Paterson and New York Finance

Posted on October 10, 2008
Source: Google News Alerts, October 10, 2008. <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www...

List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on October 10, 2008
 Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines October 10, 2008

Posted on October 10, 2008
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Financial Collapse Expected to Bring Surge in Criminal Prosecutions

Posted on October 09, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 9, 2008. "With public anger increasing over plunging stock prices and Wall Street 'greed,' white-collar defense attorneys are preparing for an inevitable surge in criminal prosecutions, reports the New York Law Journal...

Obama Would Restore Federal Anticrime Aid; McCain Less Certain

Posted on October 09, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 9, 2008. "As president, Barack Obama would work to "restore" federal anticrime aid to states and localities, but John McCain's support is for such programs is less certain...

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