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Court Upholds "Honest Services" Theory in Skilling Enron Case

Posted on January 07, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 7, 2009. "A federal appeals court has affirmed the prosecution theory that convicted former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling. The Houston Chronicle says that a United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit panel upheld all 19 of Skilling's felony convictions yesterday...

Will the Death Penalty Decline Include Texas?

Posted on January 07, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 7, 2008. "The death penalty seems to be waning in many parts of the U.S., but what about Texas, a capital punishment stronghold? 'It has taken a little longer for the transformation to be felt here,' Rob Owen of the Capital Punishment Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin told the Dallas Morning News...

Emergency Room Doctors Suspect Wide Excessive Police Use of Force

Posted on January 07, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 7, 2009 "Nearly 98 percent of emergency room physicians believe some patients were victims of excessive force by police, says a national survey reported by USA Today. Most of the suspected incidents went unreported because no laws require physicians to alert authorities...

Police Seek Economic Stimulus Aid

Posted on January 07, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 7, 2008. "Law enforcement supporters would like funds in the economic stimulus bill to be considered by Congress to include support for hiring police officers, but the Washington Post has taken an early shot at the idea...

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U.S. Makes Recommendations On Improving Austin Police

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 6, 2009. "A new U.S. Department of Justice report says the way Austin police classify force incidents allows 'far too much gray area in which some serious complaints may be minimized or disposed informally' without enough investigation, reports the Austin American- Statesman...

Do Traditional Efforts To Stop Domestic Abusers Actually Work?

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source:Crime and Justice News, January 6, 2008. "Some 80 programs in Illinois aim to stop domestic abusers from battering. Born in the 1980s out of the feminist movement, they subscribe to the theory that abusers are overwhelmingly men who use violence to exercise control over women and that society sanctions, even encourages, such behavior, says the Chicago Tribune...

New Jersey May Limit Handgun Purchases

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 6, 2009. "New Jersey could soon become the fourth state to limit handgun purchases to one a month, a move aimed at fighting "straw" gun buyers who purchase weapons legally and pass them to criminals, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports...

Cities Eliminate Criminal Conviction Question From Job Applications

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 6, 2009. "Hoping to prevent convicts from being shut out of the work force, some major cities are eliminating questions from job applications that ask whether prospective employees have ever been convicted of a crime, the Associated Press reports...

Judges On Sentencing: "We Use Prisons As Addicts Use Drugs"

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 6, 2008. "Oregon Chief Justice Paul De Muniz and Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael Wolff have called on President-elect Barack Obama to back 'major change in state and federal sentencing practices' that have resulted in the U...

Police Chief Bratton Ties 2009 Crime Projections to Los Angeles City Finances

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 6, 2008. "Even as they expressed confidence that 2009 could bring further declines in crime numbers, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief William Bratton say that the police department's success in the coming year is tied to the city's financial picture, the Los Angeles Times reports...

New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from the New York Supreme Court NY County

Posted on January 06, 2009
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: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 �� 1. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v...

Job Opening: Team Leader, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Library - Adelphi MD

Posted on January 06, 2009
Classification:� UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE� Looking for a challenging experience in a technical library that supports the Army's top research laboratory?� The DJ-1410-13 vacancy at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD may be the job for you...

Governor David Paterson and New York Finance

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Google News Alert Service. Search run January 6, 2009. State lawmakers must leap to the huge tasks ahead"Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USAState lawmakers return to work this week for what must be as intense and collaborative a session as the Legislature has produced since New York City's ...

Thinking About Reducing Your Workforce? Consider Yourself Warned

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Lexology, January 6, 2009. Thinking about reducing your workforce? Consider yourself warnedBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC"Employers must remain competitive even in the best of times."

Congressional Leadership: The More Things Change The More They Remain the Same

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Lexology, January 6, 2009. The more things change, the more they stay the sameBaker & Daniels LLP"While decisions over rank and file membership of the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee remain incomplete, leadership will stay the same in the 111th Congress...

Expected Focus of Obama Administration in Term of Media and Communications

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Lexology. January 6, 2009. Focus on the Obama Administration?s priorities in terms of media and communicationsHogan & Hartson LLP"We expect the Obama Administration to focus on media, telecommunications and technology issues at a much higher level and with a more proactive, coordinated approach than the Bush Administration, particularly in promoting its open government, open Internet, broadband deployment, and media diversity goals...

New York: Southern District Dismisses Subprime Securities Fraud Case --Again

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Lexology, January 6, 2009. New York - SDNY dismisses subprime securities fraud case ? againSkadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP"In September the Southern District of New York dismissed a subprime securities fraud class action against American Express Co...

Touched by Madoff?

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: Lexology, January 6, 2009. Touched by Madoff? You may be...CMS Cameron McKenna LLP"As has been widely reported in recent news, on 11 December 2008, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued proceedings in New York against Bernard Madoff and his broker-dealer and investment adviser business, Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BMIS)...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines January 6, 2009

Posted on January 06, 2009
Source: NLJ.com, January 6, 2009. Subscription needed for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Judge cuts by 20% Dewey & LeBoeuf's initial fees for work on securities receivership "A New York federal judge cut Dewey & LeBoeuf's fees for its first 20 days of work on a securities receivership case by 20% to $1...

Should Police Leave Most School Problems to Principals?

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 5, 2008. "More than 17,000 police officers patrol school hallways nationwide, a big increase from 10 years ago, says the New York Times in an editorial. Police have made many schools safer, but there is growing concern that the larger number of police officers, plus zero-tolerance policies at many schools, has led to unnecessary arrests...

Virginia Report Finds Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice System

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 5, 2008. "Three years after ordering a widespread study of juvenile justice, Virginia legislators had hoped to make improvements and repairs to a system that appears unfair to minorities and inconsistent from court to court, reports the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk...

New York City Police Enjoy Wide Backing Despite Problems

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 5, 2008. "With New York City crime down, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is pushing new anticrime and antiterror initiatives. Yet the department still has problems. The New York Times notes that last month, the Brooklyn district attorney obtained an indictment of an officer accused of using his baton to sodomize a man...

New Massachusetts Marijuana Decriminilization Law Called Unenforceable

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 5, 2008. "Massachusetts officially decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana last week, but many police departments were essentially ignoring the voter- passed law, saying they would not even bother to ticket people they see smoking marijuana, the Boston Globe reports...

Except in Texas, Executions, Death Sentences at Low Point

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 5, 2008. "Partly because an unofficial moratorium on executions lasted until last April, when the U.S. Supreme Court gave its blessing to the lethal injection method employed by most states and the federal government, 2008 ended with the lowest number of executions in 14 years...

Big City Survey: Homicide Dips More Common Than Increases

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source:Crime and Justice News, January 5, 2008. "Killings dropped by a third in Milwaukee last year, making the city among the nation's most successful in tackling its 2008 murder rate. The Associated Press says that New York and Chicago saw an uptick in slayings, while other cities including Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles had fewer violent deaths in '08 than '07...

Worcester, Mass. Public Law Library

Posted on January 05, 2009
A recent article details a public law library located in�Worcester, Massachussets. It is located in a courthouse constructed�which dates to�1845.� The law library is the only area of the antiquated courth which is in use and results in heating costs of over seven hundred dollars each day...

Treasure Trove of Little Seen Books

Posted on January 05, 2009
Today's New York Times features an article entitled "Google Hopes to Open a Trove of Little-Seen Books."� The article deals with Google's library book scanning project and how Google is providing access to a large database of scanned books.� Issues involve copyright infringement, access, increased reference utility,�and possible price inflation of the database as the content expands...

Open Document Format Has Been Accepted By 16 Governments

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, January 5, 2009. Open Document Format Has Been Accepted By 16 Governments"The ODF Alliance, with Sun and IBM as principal backers, announced the countries would use ODF, not Microsoft's OOXML, as the format for government documents...

New York Governor David Paterson and New York Finance

Posted on January 05, 2009
Source: A search conducted by Google News Alert Service, January 5, 2009. My priority: Make state more affordableElmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USADavid Paterson's tax and fee increases, strengthen upstate New York's economic development potential and lower energy costs for New Yorkers...

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