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  • + State AGs, supreme courts don't go unnoticed in Hellholes report 21 Dec 2009 10:14 GMT
    ... Mentions" list, while the actions of Alabama Attorney General Troy King landed his state on ... but two won victories at the trial court level and a recent Alabama Supreme Court ... except the state. Also this year, the Massachusetts Supreme Court allowed a claim for medical ...

  • Cost-benefit analysis can apply to justice, too 24 Dec 2009 06:32 GMT
    ... The Supreme Court unleashed a controversy earlier this year when it ... a sworn affidavit. In June, in a Massachusetts case, the high court ruled that crime-lab ... back on an old standard in common law, "the rule of reason." Reasonable women and ...

  • Atlanta rapper T.I. released from Arkansas prison 23 Dec 2009 02:14 GMT
    ... England in the 1630s and settled in Massachusetts. Hitmakers Ginuwine and DMX like it hot ... his hits Pony and In Those Jeans. Judge orders release of Yemeni from Guantánamo A ... his June hearing at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Judge orders release of ...

  • Lawyers, Schools And Money 21 Dec 2009 20:15 GMT
    ... announcement that it will establish a public law school at Dartmouth is its relative brevity. Certainly, ... school is outweighed by opposing arguments that Massachusetts already has plenty of lawyers and the state’s taxpayers have no business ...

  • The year that Massachusetts banned Christmas 24 Dec 2009 01:25 GMT
    ... entirely banned outright. In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts banned the celebration of Christmas. By law, ... it would fail like the previous effort. Attorney Myers is rated "excellent" by the online ...

  • The Secret ICE Prisons of the United States 23 Dec 2009 15:04 GMT
    ... ICE officer and shared it with immigrant advocates in major human and civil rights organizations, ... at least six subfield offices, compared with Massachusetts, with 913,957 immigrants and one listed field ... perform immigration law enforcement functions. A senior attorney at a civil rights organization, speaking on ...

  • More judges pulling the plug on jurors' access to Facebook 23 Dec 2009 18:51 GMT
    ... of embezzling $350,000 from Bridgewater State College, attorney Brian Kelley went on the social networking ... was not present years ago,” said District Court Judge Paul Dawley. Many judges are cautioning ... problems. The problem is not limited to Massachusetts — or even the United States. In ...

  • 12/23 - Thursday turnover...Jail time in hoax...Plea in baby theft 23 Dec 2009 20:11 GMT
    ... RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A federal court in Brazil has given a Brazilian family until ... family until tomorrow morning to turn over custody of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. ... and taxes. WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has pleaded not guilty to killing ...

  • Thursday turnover...Jail time in hoax...Plea in baby theft 23 Dec 2009 21:42 GMT
    ... RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A federal court in Brazil has given a Brazilian family until ... family until tomorrow morning to turn over custody of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. ... and taxes. WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has pleaded not guilty to killing ...

  • More states weigh making changes to their marijuana laws 29 Dec 2009 03:31 GMT
    ... Legalization bills were introduced in California and Massachusetts earlier this year, and this month, New ... possession of marijuana from a crime with jail time to a civil infraction with a ... marijuana offenses a low law-enforcement priority. Marijuana advocates said that while increased activity in the ...

  • RI Senate To Consider Loosening Marijuana Laws 25 Dec 2009 18:13 GMT
    ... RI Senate To Consider Loosening Marijuana Laws A Senate commission will soon explore whether ... drug, a path recently taken by neighboring Massachusetts. Commission members are exploring several questions that ... have decreased drug use, caused corruption among law enforcement officials and resulted in violence. The ...

  • Crime lab stretched as experts called to court 24 Dec 2009 06:36 GMT
    ... trials to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, officials say. Travel and overtime costs ... the car in which he was riding. Massachusetts courts had rejected his claim that he ... defense attorneys. Elliott Bender, a Richmond defense attorney who was among the first to use ...

  • Inmate Sentenced for Jail Computer Hack 24 Dec 2009 04:37 GMT
    ... Months for Hacking Prison Computer A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month ... Janosko, 44, was sentenced Tuesday in Federal court in Boston for abusing a computer provided by ... and did not store any data itself, prosecutors said in Janosko's indictment. The only program ...

  • Former Morgan Stanley Coder Gets 2 Years in Prison for TJX Hack 23 Dec 2009 00:16 GMT
    ... of probation. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts said the judge also ordered Watt to ... on the sentencing. Farkas asserted in his court filings that Watt was a minor and ...

  • Ex-employee says Seagate violated law 29 Dec 2009 05:51 GMT
    ... to documents filed recently with a federal court in Manhattan. The court filings include claims ... been scheduled for January 20 by Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV of the United ... dates to 2000, when Convolve and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued Seagate and Compaq ...


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