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County’s law library provides 120 years of help to Yolo residents – Woodland Daily Democrat
They come here because they have a problem.” Turner said people go to the law library for “anything that might have a legal aspect,” including family law, landlord/tenant disputes, foreclosures, criminal cases or to look further at state legislation.
Anti-Hacking Law Criminalizes Most Computer Users, Former Prosecutor Says – Wired News
That situation is intolerable,” says Orin Kerr, George Washington University law professor and a former federal prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Criminal Division. Currently …
George Will: First Amendment protection of false speech is under the gun – Nashville Tennessean
Another problematic case is percolating in Ohio, where the government can fine or imprison candidates or other participants in the political process who violate the state’s “false statement” law, which says: No person shall “make a false …
Law Professor Takes Aim at Friend-of-Court Filings – Star News Online
WASHINGTON — Not long ago, a law professor at Harvard received a routine request. Would he add his name to a brief from a group of law professors urging a federal court to uphold the health care overhaul law? The … Continue reading
Conservative Health-Care Split Offers Court a Path: Noah Feldman – Businessweek
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — What will the U.S. Supreme Court do with the constitutional challenge to the health care law? Prediction, always a delicate business, is even harder when high-stakes politics affects a case. But an opinion issued by the … Continue reading
Phoenix Criminal Defense Attorney Nick Alcock Addresses Students At Tempe High School
(LegalLaw247.com, November 14, 2011 ) Phoenix, AZ — Phoenix Criminal Defense Attorney Nick Alcock addressed students at Tempe High School on November 14, 2011. The visit was organized by his former biology teacher Scott Greenhalgh, who now serves as an … Continue reading
ICC Prosecutor: we are closely monitoring the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(LegalLaw247.com, November 14, 2011 ) Hague — ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is monitoring with the utmost vigilance the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where investigations have been ongoing since June 2003. The use of violence will … Continue reading
Political Blotter: DiFi’s DOMA repeal advances – San Jose Mercury News
This is a sampling from Bay Area News Group’s Political Blotter blog … Dianne Feinstein’s bill to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law defining marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman. “DOMA … Continue reading
Border bill pits security against the environment – Kansas City Star
More than 30 environmental laws would be waived and the Department of Homeland Security would be allowed to build roads, erect fences, set up monitoring equipment and use vehicles to patrol public lands within 100 miles of the Mexican and … Continue reading
Sri Lanka seeks tougher action against Somali pirates – Channel NewsAsia
“Existing international maritime laws and practices have proven ineffective in combating the activities of the Somali pirates,” Rajapakse said at a regional conference on maritime security organised by Sri Lanka’s navy. His remarks came after …
