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Department of Justice Report Will Not Suggest Charges Against former AG Gonzalez
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 29, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"A Justice Department investigation offers a blistering critique of the political motivations that led to the firings of a group of United States attorneys in late 2006 but stops short of recommending criminal charges against former Attorney General Alberto R...
Who Owns the Law?
Posted on September 30, 2008<span lang="EN"> <p><font size="2">The New York Times details emerging copyright and access issues involving legal materials: <u><font color="#0000ff"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www...
Internet Impersonation Outlawed in New York
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Lexology, </em>September 29, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KEQYAV" target="_blank"><strong><font size="2"><span class="territory"><font color="#622567">New York</font></span><font color="#3e3d40"> - Internet impersonation outlawed in New York</font></font></strong></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#aea400"><span class="firm"><strong>Winston & Strawn LLP</strong></span><br/></font>"New York Governor David A...
Following Bailout Legislation
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2">The following e-mail received this morning from Gallerywatch.com includes the following comments from their operations about following the bailout legislation:</font></p><span lang="EN"> <p><font size="2">I'm sure you all have clients who are pretty anxious about the bailout bill so to preempt some of your questions here is how the vote in the House is gonna go down...
Criminal Law and Procedure Case Summaries September 26, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2">Source:</font><a href="http://www.pacehughes.com/DynamicContentPage.shtml?link=http://fsnews.findlaw.com/portal/topic.xml?tid=40&cre=2003-11&ss=fln-cases-more.xsl" target="_blank"><font size="2"> Pace and Schmidt</font></a><font size="2"> </font></p> <p><font size="2">For personal use only...
Selections for National Law Journal Daily Headlines September 29, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>NLJ.com,</em> September 29, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2"> Subscription needed for online acess: </font><a href="http://www...
List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com
Posted on September 30, 2008<strong><font size="1"> <p><font size="2">Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials...
New Jersey Law Journal: Top Stories September 29, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<font size="1"> <p><font size="2">If you are already an online subscriber to the New Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed...
Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines September 30, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source:</strong><em> NLJ.com<strong>,</strong></em> September 30, 2008</font></p> <p><font size="2">Subscription needed for online access: </font><a href="http://www...
The "Bailout" that Wasn't
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2">The following September 29, 2008 <em>CongressNow</em> article provides the "post mortem" of the attempt:</font></p> <p><font size="2">Financial Services<br/>Updated: House Rejects Bailout<br/>By: Vicki Needham<br/>CongressNow Staff<br/>Sep 29, 2008 2:06 PM<br/><br/>In a dramatic vote on a $700 billion financial rescue measure, the House today rejected the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H...
Microsoft, Washington State Launch Legal Assault On Scareware
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, </em>September 30, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hBMIL0Gs8oP0G4n0Gst80ER" target="_blank"><strong><font size="2">Microsoft, Washington State Launch Legal Assault On Scareware</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2">"The lawsuit against Registry Cleaner XP is trying to halt pop-up ads that look like Windows system messages and falsely claim that a critical system error has occurred...
New York Governor and Legislators To Discuss Fiscal Crisis
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Google News,</em> September 30, 2008.</font></p> <div class="lh"><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2008/09/29/daily1...
List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com
Posted on September 30, 2008<font size="1"> <p><font size="2">Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials...
New Jersey Law Journal: News Update September 29, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<font size="1"> <p><font size="2">If you are already an online subscriber to the New Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed...
New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest September 30, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<font size="1"> <p><font size="2">If you are already an online subscriber to this service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access any of the decisions listed which interest you...
New York Law Journal Featured Columnists September 30, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<font size="1"> <p><font size="2">If you are already an online subscriber to the New York Law Journal you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed...
New York Law Journal Lead Articles September 30, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<font size="1"> <p><font size="2">If you are already an online subscriber to the New York Law Journal you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed...
LAW.COM Newswire Highlights September 30, 2008
Posted on September 30, 2008<font size="1"> <p><font size="2">If you are already an online subscriber to the LAW.COM service you should be able to click on any of the links below, sign in, and access the full text of all articles listed...
25 Important Legal Issues Every Librarian Should Research
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><strong><font size="2">By Jessica Merritt</font></strong></p> <p><font size="2">"Most people don t think of librarians as legal entities, but the fact is there are a number of legal issues that are important for librarians to understand...
New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from the New York Supreme Court NY County
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="1">In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below:</font></p> <p> </p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="middle" width="38%"><span class="summary"><font size="2">Tuesday, September 30, 2008</font></span></td> <td valign="bottom" align="right"><font size="2"> </font></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="2"> <hr/></font> <p> </p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="right"><span class="item_number"><font size="2">1...
"Snitch Church" Label in Crime Fight Worries Pittsburgh Pastors
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 30, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"Pittsburgh's Hazelwood Presbyterian Church has been derided as 'a snitch church' for hosting police efforts to talk with civilians, Pastor Leslie Boone told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
Some Minnesota Journalists Embedded With Police at Republican Convention
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News,</em> September 30, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"Some Minnesota journalists were "embedded" to observe police during this month's Republican National Convention in St...
Prosecutor Named To Continue U.S. Attorney Firing Probe
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 30, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"Justice Department officials named a longtime public corruption prosecutor to explore the basis for firing a U...
New Jersey Paarole Official Attends FBI National Academy -- A First
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 30, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"New Jersey State Parole Board Capt...
New York City Police Order Refresher Training After Taser Death
Posted on September 30, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 30, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"As refresher training began today for more than 400 New York City police officers for their encounters dealing with emotionally disturbed people, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the quality of the department's training after a naked man fell to his death last week when he was shot by a police Taser gun, reports the New York Times...
New York: Fiscal Stability, The Mortgage Crisis, and the New York Budget
Posted on September 26, 2008<p><font size="2">From: Google News Alert, September 26, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://media-newswire.com/release_1074339.html" target="_blank"><font size="2"><b>GOVERNOR PATERSON</b> ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL <b>NEW YORK</b> STATE GRANTS TO <b>...
Some States Find It Hard To Abide By Walsh Sex Offender Law
Posted on September 26, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 26, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"The federal Adam Walsh Act requires states to contribute to a national database of sex offenders with more current and stringent registration requirements...
New York City Taser Firing at Man on Ledge Violated Guidelines
Posted on September 26, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source:</strong><em>Crime and Justice News </em>September 26, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"The firing of a Taser stun gun that led an emotionally disturbed man to fall from a Brooklyn building ledge to his death appeared to have violated police department guidelines, the New York Times reports...
Will U.S. Supreme Court Handgun Ban Ruling Affect Gun Case Sentences?
Posted on September 26, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 26, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"The federal judge who sentenced Weldon Angelos to 55 years and one day in prison in 2004 said his hands were tied by mandatory-minimum sentencing laws, calling his own sentence 'unjust, cruel, and even irrational...
Report: 760,000 Felons Regained Voting Rights in 11 Years
Posted on September 26, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>September 26, 2008.</font></p> <p> </p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><font color="#000000">"Since 1997, 19 states have amended felony disenfranchisement policies to reduce their restrictiveness and expand voter eligibility, says a new report from The Sentencing Project in Washington, D...
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How do i go bout geting a free laywer to sue the durham police department for drug raids and nothing is found?they have been in my house 4 or 5 times seems like every 4 months or so and breaking down my door tearing up m
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Is a child fathered out of wedlock by an American diplomat to a foreign women on foreign soil entitled to US Citizenship by jus sanguinis?
This is a very tough situation your friend is in. It is difficult to know the ex...
He is a very smart man who is always looking for ways around things. The judge granted our divorce for December 12,2007, and my ex-husband told me that he just got married just before Thanksgiving. He is a student at Cal
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