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New York Times: "Spitzer Aides Say Governor Will Resign Today"

Posted on March 12, 2008
Source: New York Times Alert, March 12, 2008 9:49 AM ET By DANNY HAKIM and ANAHAD O?CONNOR "Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from a prostitution scandal, will resign today, some of his aides said they have been told, though the timing remains unclear...

Selections from NLJ.com Daily Headlines March 12, 2008

Posted on March 12, 2008
Subscription needed for online access. WEB-ONLY | Judicial Conference adopts national rules on judicial misconduct"The Judicial Conference of the United States has adopted the first nationally binding judicial discipline rules, curtailing the decentralized self-regulatory system that let individual circuit's set their own standards...

List of Selected Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on March 12, 2008
Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts March 11, 2008

Posted on March 12, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to 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 Acquitted Former Judge Sues City For Wrongfully Prosecuting Him"A former Englewood municipal judge, acquitted of charges that he falsified public records to allow a jail inmate to attend his father's funeral, is suing the city for back pay and legal fees...

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VIDMIC Used By 180 Police Agencies To Record Incidents

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, March 11, 2008. "Some Oklahoma police departments and county sheriff's departments state are equipping officers with the VIDMIC, a device that can record audio and video and take still pictures, reports The Oklahoman...

Newark Police Director Suspends Police Chief

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 11, 2007. "Newark Police Chief Anthony Campos was suspended yesterday for five days after a dispute with Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy about who had authority to make personnel moves in the department, reports the Newark Star-Ledger...

Nearly Half of States Have Banned Or Considered Curbing Salvia

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 11, 2008. On Web sites touting the mind-blowing powers of salvia divinorum, come-ons to buy the hallucinogenic herb are accompanied by warnings: "Time is running out! [] stock up while you still can," the Associated Press reports...

30 States Have Shown Interest in Missouri Juvenile Rehab Programs

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 11, 2008. "As states grapple with rising prison costs and reports of abuse in juvenile lock-ups, many are trying to recreate a successful Missouri program that boasts one of the lowest repeat-offender rates in the U...

Private Prison Firms Profit As Inmate Rolls Continue Upward

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 11, 2008. "Crowded U.S. prisons and jails jails have triggered a profit boom for corrections companies, reports Agence France-Presse. Harsher sentencing policies have put more criminals behind bars and prison management firms such as the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group are racing to build new jails or expand existing facilities...

U.S. Domestic Terrorism Has Mostly 'Unraveled"

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 11, 2008. "Violent extremist groups surged in the 1990s, a decade of spectacular domestic mayhem -- at a cabin in Ruby Ridge, Id.; on a compound outside Waco, Tx.; in downtown Oklahoma City. The Los Angeles Times says the groups today are shadows of themselves, with many of their leaders dead, imprisoned, disillusioned, or just inept...

Federal Judicial Canons Up for Revision

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: National Law Journal: NLJ.com Daily Newsletter, March 11, 2008. Subscription needed for online access. WEB-ONLY | Federal judicial canons up for revision"The judicial canons of ethics used by the federal judiciary are up for revision to keep in line with the American Bar Association's February 2007 modifications of its Model Code of Judicial Conduct...

University Of Minnesota Plans Wi Fi Network For 80,000

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 11, 2008. University Of Minnesota Plans Wi-Fi Network For 80,000"The installation will cover 1,204 acres across the university's two campuses and supercede a current network of scattered Wi-Fi access points...

Microsoft, Sun Cooperate On Virtualization In Interoperability Center

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 11, 2008. Microsoft, Sun Cooperate On Virtualization In Interoperability Center"The center will be used to design and test interoperability between Windows Server 2008 and Sun's Sun Fire x64 systems and storage...

Harris Poll Finds Most Americans Never Read Political Blogs

Posted on March 11, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter , March 11, 2008. Most Americans Never Read Political Blogs, Harris Poll Finds"Republicans are more likely to find value and accuracy in political blogs than Democrats, a survey of 2,300 U.S. adults revealed"

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

Posted on March 11, 2008
Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts March 10, 2008

Posted on March 11, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to 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 "Defense Firm's Ouster Sought From Workplace Case After Split VerdictJoint representation always carries the seeds of potential conflict, but a case at New Jersey's high court tests whether, when once-unified parties no longer see eye to eye, their law firm is disqualified from representing any of them...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest March 11, 2008

Posted on March 11, 2008
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. http://www.nylj.com Subscription for online access...

New York Law Journal Technology Today March 11, 2008

Posted on March 11, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to 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 http://www.nylj.com Subscription needed for online access...

New York Law Journal Featured Columnists March 11, 2008

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's Statement

Posted on March 10, 2008
(AP) ? Here is the transcript of a statement delivered in New York City on Monday by Gov. Eliot Spitzer following reports linking him to a prostitution ring: ___ "Good afternoon. "For the past nine years, eight years as attorney general, and one as governor, I have tried to uphold a vision of progressive politics that would rebuild New York and create opportunity for all...

Southern Poverty Law Center Report: Anti Immigrant Advocacy Encourages Hate Crimes

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. "Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, said a Southern Poverty Law Center report quoted by the Associated Press...

Judge Orders Reporter To Pay Fines in Anthrax Source Dispute

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. "Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy is expected to appeal a federal judge's order that she pay fines of up to $5,000 per day for failing to identify sources who named former Army scientist Steven Hatfill as a possible suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks...

Dozens of Briefs Swamp U.S. Supreme Court in Handgun Ban Case

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. With the Supreme Court examining for the first time in 70 years the right to bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment, a group of gay and transgender gun owners called the Pink Pistols is one of 47 groups to have filed "amicus" briefs supporting a challenge to Washington, D...

Campuses Still Seeking Federal Aid For Security Needs

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. "Almost a year after the Virginia Tech killings, Congress is still haggling over legislation that could provide federal dollars to colleges and universities to help pay for improved campus security, reports Gannett News Service...

New York Federal Juries Hve Been Reluctant to Use Death Penalty Statute

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. "In the 20 years since the federal death penalty statute was revived, New York federal juries have been the most reluctant to use it, says the New York Times. The Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project says federal prosecutors in New York State have asked juries to impose death sentences 19 times since 1988...

Attorney Client Privilege Causes 26 Wrongful Years in Prison

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. "After two trials and 26 years in prison, Alton Logan has never given up hope that one day he would be freed and his name cleared in the 1982 shooting death of a fast-food restaurant security guard, says the Chicago Sun-Times...

Critic Cites Mukasey "Counterfactual Fear-Mongering" on Crack

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. "National Journal legal affairs columnist Stuart Taylor accuses Attorney General Michael Mukasey of 'counterfactual fear-mongering' by asking Congress to roll back the U.S. Sentencing Commission's decision to ease sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine...

Wake Up To Crowded Prisons' Fiscal, Moral Costs

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 10, 2008. "Citing the new Pew Center on the States report that more than 1 in 100 American adults are behind bars, the New York Times calls the high U.S. imprisonment rate ' terrible waste of money and lives...

From the New York Times March 10, 2008

Posted on March 10, 2008
Selected list of articles appearing in the March 10, 2008 New York Times. Source: NYTimes.com. Subscription needed for online access. To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on YouBy LOUISE STORY"A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more about people than ever from what they search for and do on the Internet" Growing Reluctance to Impose the Death Penalty, but the Cases Keep ComingBy ALAN FEUER"Federal juries in New York are so reluctant to impose the death penalty that judges have gone so far as to call some cases a waste of time and money...

U.S. Federal Court Upholds Claims Against Subprime Lender

Posted on March 10, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 10, 2008. U.S. federal court upholds claims against subprime lenderLatham & Watkins"On January 4, 2008, the Federal Court for the Southern District of California permitted a securities fraud class action to proceed against a mortgage finance company dealing in the subprime credit market...

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