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LAW.COM Newswire Highlights October 14, 2008
Posted on October 14, 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...
LAW.COM Newswire Highlights October 13, 2008
Posted on October 14, 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...
Despite Strict Bans, Gun Culture Takes Hold in China
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"In China, a ban on private ownership of rifles, pistols, and even gun replicas is a core tenet of social policy...
Guns are Everywhere, In Florida, 60,000 Seized In Five Years
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"Many of the best-armed criminals call Orlando and the rest of Florida home, reports the Orlando Sentinel...
Police, Prosecutors Still Rely On Unreliable Eyewitness Accounts
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"The fallibility of eyewitness testimony shown by DNA exonerations is not a relic of the past...
Federal Sentence Panel May Urge More Non Prison Sanctions
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p> </p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><font color="#000000">"As the inmate population climbs toward 2...
High Risk Of Error in single Witness "Showup" Identifications
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"A split-second, one-person identification cost a Dallas man 22 years of his life on a rape conviction that DNA evidence later invalidated...
"The Market is Right" For An Increase in Insurance Fraud
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"Many Washington, D.C., area residents are torching their cars hoping for a quick insurance check, reports the Washington Post...
More Than One-Third of New Atlanta Cops Have Criminal Records
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have been arrested or cited for a crime, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Community Law Enforcement Anticrime Model Hard to Sustain
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 14, 2008</font></p> <p><font size="2">"Soon after Cincinnati started a crime-fighting campaign that enlists clergy, community leaders, and police to quell gang gunplay, it was hailed a success...
ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Enacted
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Lexology, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KHPC7E" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#3e3d40" size="2">ADA Amendments Act of 2008 enacted</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#aea400"><span class="firm"><strong>Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC</strong></span><br/></font>"In the midst of the proposed economic legislation being negotiated and passed in Washington, D...
Ninth Circuit Expected to Rule on E-Mail "Interceptions" Under Wiretap Act
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Lexology, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KHPC78" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#3e3d40" size="2">Ninth Circuit expected to rule on e-mail interceptions under the Wiretap Act</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#aea400"><span class="firm"><strong>Hogan & Hartson LLP</strong></span><br/></font>"The U...
Securities Exchange Commission Provides Guidance Regarding Company Web Sites
Posted on October 14, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Lexology, </em>October 14, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KHPC21" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#3e3d40" size="2">SEC provides guidance regarding company Web sites</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#aea400"><span class="firm"><strong>Burns & Levinson LLP</strong></span><br/></font>"In August 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC ) published an interpretive release to provide guidance regarding the use of company Web sites for publication of information pertinent to investors...
Columbus Day Holiday
Posted on October 10, 2008Happy Columbus Day everyone. We will be back on Tuesday October 14.
Increasing Numbers of Inmate Cell Phones Called "Huge Threat"
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"Pennsylvania drug kingpin Ronald Whethers used cell phones to run a narcotics empire from prison, leading to a state law prohibiting cell phones behind bars...
Should Congress Study Ending Mandatory Minimums?
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source:</strong><em>Crime and Justice News,</em></font></p> <p><font size="2">"Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) recently chronicled lawmakers' rush in the 1950s to enact tough mandatory minimum sentences for what they saw as the viral spread of illegal drugs throughout the country...
Virginia Prison System Eliminates 330 Jobs, Closes 6 Facilities
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News,</em> October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"The Virginia Department of Corrections, the state's largest agency with 13,606 employees, will bear the brunt of new state job cuts announced by Gov...
Chicago's Record of Prosecuting Domestic Violence
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"For every man convicted in a Cook County court of beating his wife or girlfriend, five men brought in on similar charges walk away legally unscathed, says the Chicago Tribune...
Is Posting Drunk Driving Suspects On Net "Wall of Shame" Legal?
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News,</em> October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p> </p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><font color="#000000">"A defendants on Nassau County, N...
Robbery, Property Crime Could Rise as Economy Fails
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"If New York's economy sinks to depths not seen in decades, will crime return with a vengeance? The New York Times notes that the last time stocks on Wall Street fell hard, in 1987, crime was exploding, and the city saw historic highs in murders...
Keeping a Wary Eye on Crime as Economy Sinks
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>NYTimes.com, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><span class="headlineWrapper"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/nyregion/10crime...
Federal Trade Commission Requires Identity Theft Programs by November 1, 2008
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Lexology, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KH1100" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#3e3d40" size="2">FTC requires identity theft prevention programs by November 1, 2008</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#aea400"><span class="firm"><strong>Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP</strong></span><br/></font>"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that financial institutions and creditors develop and implement identity theft prevention programs by November 1, 2008, pursuant to regulations (see 16 C...
first Amendment Trumps Virginia Spam Statute
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Lexology, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KH113C" target="_blank"><strong><font size="2"><span class="territory"><font color="#622567">Virginia</font></span><font color="#3e3d40"> - First Amendment trumps Virginia spam statute</font></font></strong></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#aea400"><span class="firm"><strong>Wiley Rein LLP</strong></span><br/></font>"On September 12, the Virginia Supreme Court reversed the conviction of notorious spammer Jeremy Jaynes, who had been sentenced to nine years in prison following a 2004 trial...
Searching: Researchers Teach Computers to Recognize Objects in Images
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hBMYx0Gs8oP0G4n0Gudl0E4" target="_blank"><strong><font size="2">Researchers Teach Computers To Recognize Objects In Images</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2">"Some 60,000 photos were manually tagged with keywords by Penn State computer scientists to associate keywords with the pixel patterns that depict the objects in images...
Entellium CEO, CFO Charged With Fraud
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hBMYx0Gs8oP0G4n0Gudg0Ey" target="_blank"><strong><font size="2">Entellium CEO, CFO Charged With Fraud</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2">"A U...
Governor David Paterson and New York Finance
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Google News Alerts, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p> </p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www...
List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com
Posted on October 10, 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...
Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines October 10, 2008
Posted on October 10, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source:</strong><em>NLJ.com, </em>October 10, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">Subscription needed for online access: </font><a href="http://www...
Financial Collapse Expected to Bring Surge in Criminal Prosecutions
Posted on October 09, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 9, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"With public anger increasing over plunging stock prices and Wall Street 'greed,' white-collar defense attorneys are preparing for an inevitable surge in criminal prosecutions, reports the New York Law Journal...
Obama Would Restore Federal Anticrime Aid; McCain Less Certain
Posted on October 09, 2008<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News, </em>October 9, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"As president, Barack Obama would work to "restore" federal anticrime aid to states and localities, but John McCain's support is for such programs is less certain...
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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
They need a warrant to get into your house...if they never showed you one...you ...
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
i can answer that for you. with all due respect. better your own life just as i ...
Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How can I get my parents away from my bulling brother?
First of all, if you are paying your lawyer, you should not be on the back burne...








