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Inmates' lawyers back plan to cut California prison crowding
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | about 11 hours ago
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The plan calls for a reduction in the population of 33 adult prisons to 137.5 percent of design capacity within two years, thus meeting the requirement of the panel's Aug. 4 order. "Rather than ordering the state to utilize particular population reduction...
Tags: California, U.S. Supreme Court, Sacramento, Social Issues, Incarceration in the United States, Prison Litigation Reform Act, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Law Crime
Campaign-Finance Ruling Looms
Rochester :: NY :: USA | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Montana voters, fed up with the grip of out-of-state mining interests on local politicians, passed an initiative in 1912 banning corporate spending on candidates for state office. As soon as Tuesday, that law -- and similar ones in nearly half the states...
Tags: Michigan Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Supreme Court, Austin, Montana, action committees, political action, Rochester, John McCain, Lobbying, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Politics, Business Finance, Corporation, Federal Election Commission, Independent expenditure
Court rebuffs Gitmo prisoner review
Jalālābād :: Afghanistan | about 24 hours ago
Credibility Supreme Court Monday refused to take charge of the case of a Guantanamo prisoner still held after apparently being cleared for release...Al-Ghizzawi is a prisoner at the detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Public Record...
Tags: Public Record, U.S. Supreme Court, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, Afghanistan, Jalālābād, Human rights abuses, Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Awda, Guantanamo detainees who officially reported abuse, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Abdel Hamid al-Ghazzawi, Law Crime, War Conflict
U.S. may reindict Blagojevich in statute end run
Illinois :: IL :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Supreme Court on the scope of the federal "honest services" statute under which Blagojevich has been charged. That would prevent the need to delay Blagojevich's June trial date, they said. In a filing today, prosecutors said they would handle the honest...
Tags: Rod Blagojevich, U.S. Supreme Court, Illinois, Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich controversies, Video game censorship, Rod Blagojevich corruption charges, James Zagel, Law Crime, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, Blagojeviￄﾇ
Black likely staying in jail, despite review: prosecutor
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility T he man who put Conrad Black behind bars doesn't believe Tuesday's hearing before the United States Supreme Court will result in Lord Black getting out of jail. “There are a lot of different permutations, to be perfectly honest,” said Eric Sussman, who...
Tags: US Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court, Conrad Black, The Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court, Chicago Sun-Times, honest services, Hollinger International Inc., Lord Black, court takes, Chicago, Law Crime, United States v. Conrad Black, Supreme Court of the United States, Enron, Bruce Weyhrauch, Fraud, Jeffrey Skilling, Appeal, Business Finance, Corporate scandals, Year of birth missing, Corporate crime, Prosecutor, VECO Corporation, Bernard Madoff, Alaska political corruption probe, Criminal law, Non-compete clause, Political corruption, Cyril Wecht
Justices to Decide if Honest-Services Law Gives Prosecutors Too Much Discretion
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility An unusual coalition of groups has come together to criticize the federal government’s increasing reliance on a statute that is commonly used but little understood: honest-services fraud. The honest-services law, on the federal books since 1988, broadly...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Conrad Black, San Diego, Jeffrey Skilling, Law Crime, Enron, Corporate scandals, Corporate crime, Bruce Weyhrauch, Prosecution, Supreme Court of the United States, VECO Corporation, Don Siegelman, Accounting scandals, Jack Abramoff, Year of birth missing, Attorney general, Political corruption, Prosecutor, Bush Pioneers, Richard M. Scrushy
Promotion event planned for New Haven firefighters
New Haven :: CT :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Conn.— A promotion ceremony will be held for New Haven firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in U.S. Supreme Court. The ceremony will be held Thursday after a federal judge ordered New Haven officials to promote 14 firefighters. U.S...Please...
Tags: New Haven, U.S. Supreme Court, New Haven Connecticut, Janet Bond Arterton, Social Issues, Firefighter, Law Crime, Ricci v. DeStefano
U.S. envoy Rice says Geneva Conventions help America
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility The Obama administration has issued a ringing defense of the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war, which officials of the Bush White House had said did not apply to their struggle against al Qaeda. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice...
Tags: United Nations Susan Rice, UNITED NATIONS, U.S. Supreme Court, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Kabul, Waterboarding, Laws of war, Enemy combatant, Politics, Barack Obama, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, War crimes, War in Afghanistan, Torture in the United States, War Conflict
10 More Firefighters Promoted
New Haven :: CT :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility More Firefighters Promoted by Thomas MacMillan December 4, 2009 4:00 PM Permalink Comments (0) Before they could be promoted Friday, 10 firefighters had to give up years of back pay that their colleagues in the New Haven 20 may still win. The 10 had...
Tags: New Haven, U.S. Supreme Court, Gary Cole, Corporation Counsel Victor Bolden, Tyrone Ewing, New Haven Connecticut, New Haven County Connecticut, Firefighter, Ricci v. DeStefano
Judge ends Enron shareholder lawsuit against banks (Reuters)
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Exactly eight years after Enron Corp filed for bankruptcy protection, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by investors against banks they accused of helping the energy company commit fraud...District Judge Melinda Harmon in Houston federal court came...
Tags: Enron Corp, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, Patrick Coughlin, San Diego, Kenneth Lay, Merrill Lynch, Business Finance, Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman and Robbins, Richard Causey, Jeffrey Skilling, Enron, Law Crime, Enron scandal
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