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Pennsylvania Crime Laborarory Overwhelmed, Police departments Set Up Their Own

Posted on August 04, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, August 4, 2008. "On 'CSI' and other TV dramas, it all looks so easy, says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Investigators discover fingerprints, hairs, blood and other trace evidence. They rush the evidence to the lab where scientists drop whatever else they were doing and quickly put the forensic samples into a computer...

Rise in Elderly Inmates

Posted on August 04, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, August 4, 2008. "When Hugo 'Bud' Kladivko, 83, shuffled into the Florida penal system last month, he joined a group whose surging membership poses costly problems behind bars: the elderly. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the retired businessman, sentenced to life in the murder of his wife, Brenda, became the 71st inmate 80 or older in Florida prisons and one of 14,000 who are 50 or older, which prison system defines as 'elderly...

Federal Court Refuses to Enjoin Florida "Guns-at-Work law" as Applied to Employees

Posted on August 04, 2008
Source: Lexology, August 4, 2008. Florida - Federal court refuses to enjoin Florida "guns-at-work law" as applied to employeesOgletree Deakins"A federal court in Tallahassee, Florida yesterday refused to enjoin the new Florida law that grants certain employees the right to keep guns secured in their vehicles while they are at work"

Advanced Copyright Issues on the Internet

Posted on August 04, 2008
Source: Lexology, August 4, 2008. Advanced copyright issues on the InternetFenwick & West LLP"During recent years, the Internet has become the basic foundational infrastructure for the global movement of data of all kinds.

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How to Stop Firefox From Blocking Google Reader Popups

Posted on August 04, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, Posted by Mitch Watner, August 1, 2008. How To Stop Firefox From Blocking Google Reader Popups "I just found a solution to a problem that was driving me crazy for months, and I'm passing it along now for my fellow sufferers...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines August 4, 2008

Posted on August 04, 2008
Source:NLJ.com, August 4, 2008. Subscription needed for online access�� http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Review sought on judicial recusals"The ethical hornets' nest stirred up by the refusal of an acting West Virginia chief justice to recuse himself from a multimillion-dollar appeal involving his major campaign contributor has reached the U...

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

Posted on August 04, 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 Top Stories August 4, 2008

Posted on August 04, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to the 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. Subscription needed for online access: Religious Slurs May Amount to Hostile Workplace, Court Says"�Workers taunted about their religion or ancestry are entitled to the same legal protection as the victims of sex, race and ethnic harassment, the New Jersey Supreme Court said in the case of a police officer whose colleagues called him a 'dirty Jew...

New York Legislature: Activity Report for Week Ending August 3, 2008

Posted on August 04, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Retrievel System (LRS), Search run August 3, 2008. No Chapter Laws were listed as being enacted during this period. Categories Included for Actions on Bills:� Corrections Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Judiciary Law...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest August 4, 2008.

Posted on August 04, 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 required for online access: APPELLATE DIVISIONFIRST DEPARTMENTTrusts and EstatesSpanish Yacht Club Is America's Cup Challenger; Met Deed of Gift?s Organization, Regatta Conditions Golden Gate Yacht Club, plaintiff-respondent v...

New York Law Journal Featured Columnists August 4, 2008

Posted on August 04, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to the 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 requried for online access: Condemnation and Tax CertiorariMonday, August 4, 2008By M...

New York City PoliceWill Accept Video, Photo Evidence Soon, Commissioner Kelly Says

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, August 1, 2008. "New Yorkers soon will be able to upload video or photo evidence directly to the New York Police Department, reports Reuters. 'It's a fact of life,' said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. 'Everybody has a camera in their telephones...

Short Sentence For Ex Newark New Jersey Mayor Seems Likely to Stand

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, August 1, 2008. "The 27-month prison term former Newark mayor Sharpe James got this week in a fraud case was barely one-tenth what the government wanted, says the Newark Star-Ledger. While U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie vowed to appeal the sentence, the road ahead could be tough for the government...

U.S. Executions Decline as Majority Backs Capital Punishment

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, August 1, 2008. "More than 30 years after the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court, capital punishment in the U.S. still faces serious legal and political challenges, even as a persistent majority of the public believes convicted murderers should be executed, reports Stateline...

Advocates Say DNA Testing in Burglaries is Worth the Cost

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, August 1, 2008. "More than 2 million burglaries occur each year in the U.S., but arrests are made only about 12 percent of the time, says the Kansas City Star. If society wants to get serious about property crimes, it will cost...

Ex NRA Employee Penetrated Gun Control Groups

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, August 1, 2008. 'Mary Lou Sapone, a former National Rifle Association employee who has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns, joined gun-control groups under her maiden name, Mary McFate, reports Mother Jones...

Scientist Facing Charges in Anthrax Attacks Commits Suicide

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, August 1, 2008. "A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks died in Maryland from an apparent suicide as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him, reports the Los Angeles Times...

Boolean Searching Alive and Well at the U.S. Department of Justice

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: LISNews Daily "That dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy�... has been in the news again recently, complete with the purported LexisNexis search terms that were used to screen candidates: [first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm! " For more see article in� Washington Monthly, July 29, 2008 at http://www...

U.S. Drug Enforcementg Administration Proposes E-Prescribing Regulations for Controlled Substances

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Lexology, August 1, 2008. Drug Enforcement Administration proposes e-prescribing regulations for controlled substancesNixon Peabody LLP"The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently issued proposed regulations for the electronic prescribing of controlled substances and is seeking comment from the industry on certain requirements by September 25, 2008...

Court Orders Disclosure of YouTube Viewer Logs in Copyright Suit

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Lexology, July 31, 2008. Court orders disclosure of YouTube viewer logs in copyright suitSteptoe & Johnson LLP"Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube is perhaps best known as a crucial test of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's liability protections for websites that host user-posted content that infringes copyright...

Accountants and Attorneys Disagree on How Much to Disclose

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: Lexology, July 31, 2008. Accountants and attorneys disagree on how much to discloseMasuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd"In the course of performing an audit, accounting firms will send to the clients' legal counsel a request for information that should be disclosed in the client's financial statements...

So You Think Your Company Will Never Be Indicted?

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source:Lexology, July 31, 2008. So you think your company will never be indicted?Morrison & Foerster"Here are 10 things that could prevent a criminal problem."

Google: "Get Used to Everyone Knowing Everything About You"

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, Posted by Eric Zeman on July 31, 2008. Google Says Privacy Doesn't Exist, Get Used To Everyone Knowing Everything About You"The headline practically says it all. Google is being sued by a Pittsburgh couple for posting images of its house on the Internet in Google's Street Views pages...

Ancient Olympic 'Computer' Calculated Dates of Games

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, August 1, 2008. Ancient Olympic 'Computer' Calculated Dates Of Games"Researchers announced Wednesday that a geared device dating to the second century BC was used to calculate the dates for the first Olympic games...

NowPublic Lists Most Influential Web Voices

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, August 1, 2008. NowPublic Lists Silicon Valley's Most Influential Web Voices"The 'crowd-sourced' list contains the most popular voices on the Web through sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and others...

Apple Says MobileMe's E-Mail Bugs Fixed

Posted on August 01, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, August 1, 2008 Apple Says MobileMe's E-Mail Bugs Fixed"The company said the service's e-mail issues have been repaired, but some subscribers are still reporting problems."

Maryland State Commission Begins Review of Death Penalty

Posted on July 29, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, July 29, 2008. "A Maryland commission appointed to study the death penalty began its work yesterday by hearing testimony on statistical evidence of racial, geographic and socioeconomic disparities in different states' imposition of death sentences, reports the Baltimore Sun...

Plaintiff in DC Gun Case Sues Again Over New Registration Rules

Posted on July 29, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, July 29, 2008. "The man who successfully challenged the Washington, D.C., handgun ban before the U.S. Supreme Court filed a second federal lawsuit yesterday, alleging that the District's new gun-registration system is burdensome and continues to unlawfully outlaw most semiautomatic pistols, reports the city's Post...

Federal Probe of Cleveland Political Machine Goes Public With Raids

Posted on July 29, 2008
Source; Crime and Justice News, July 29, 2008. "The public-corruption investigation that paralyzed Cuyahoga County, Ohio, government Monday unraveled the political and business ties of the county's most powerful and colorful players: Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and Auditor Frank Russo, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer...

Connecticut Finds Stubborn Problem in Housing Sex Offenders

Posted on July 29, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, July 29, 2008. :Nine months since the uproar over a convicted serial rapist being moved to a quiet Southbury neighborhood, Connecticut continues to lack options for housing sex offenders. The Department of Correction and Judicial Branch were supposed to have 24 beds available in a secured setting by July 1...

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