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14 hrs ago | FindLaw

A Supreme Court Ruling Means Prisoner Abuse Photos Stay Secret

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in ACLU v. Dep't of Defense .

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Related Topix: Prison, US Supreme Court, US News, ACLU

Yesterday | Appleton Post-Crescent

Judge Patrick Willis delays ruling on new trial for Steven Avery in Teresa Halbach murder

A judge says he needs more time to decide if he will grant Steven Avery's request for a new trial in the Teresa Halbach homicide.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Manitowoc County, WI, US News

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Portland's CW32 KRCW -TV

Supreme Court throws out ruling ordering release of detainee abuse photos, cites change in law

The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their U.S. captors.

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Related Topix: US News

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Pan-African News Wire

The Mis-incarceration of Attorney Lynne Stewart

The mis-incarceration of Lynne Stewart Published Nov 25, 2009 9:24 AM By Iyanna "Nana Soul" Jones New York On Nov.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Ctnewsjunkie.com

Rell Summons Lawmakers; Proposes Campaign Fix

Judge Orders Firefighter Promotions Election 2008 Election 2010 Environment General News Health Care Iraq at Home November 25, 2009 2:37 PM Posted to State Capitol Before leaving to spend Thanksgiving in Colorado Gov.

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Related Topix: M. Jodi Rell, US Governors, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, US News

Thu Nov 26, 2009

The Hartford Courant

Rell Calls For Special Legislative Session On Budget, Campaign Finance Law

Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell is calling the Democrat-controlled legislature into special session Dec.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, M. Jodi Rell, US Governors, US News

Hartford Courant

SEC Seeks Contempt Order Against MDC's Dibella

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking sanctions - including possible incarceration - against regional sewer czar William A. DiBella, arguing that he has "willfully disobeyed" a court order to pay nearly $700,000 in penalties for taking a sham fee on a state pension investment arranged by convicted state Treasurer Paul Silvester.

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Prison, Financial Services, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Ansonia, CT

Wed Nov 25, 2009

The Corner

Can the AG Keep His Story Straight? -- By: Andy McCarthy

It's hard to when you're making it up as you go along. In yesterday's exchange with Senator Kyl, while giving the back of the hand to my claim that leftist lawyers had derailed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Attorney General Eric " Real American Values " Holder argued that it was the Supreme Court - "not, I think, a group of leftist lawyers" ...

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Related Topix: US News

Mon Nov 23, 2009

USA Today

Lawsuits put global warming on more dockets

A group of 12 Mississippi Gulf Coast homeowners is using a novel legal strategy to try to recoup losses suffered during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, US News, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Environmental Law, Law, Weather

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Court: Prosecutors not liable for holding back tests results that freed former inmate

Prosecutors in the Monroe County District Attorney's Office are shielded from liability for not quickly revealing the results of genetic testing that led to freedom for a wrongly convicted man, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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Related Topix: Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Capital Culture: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court

Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.

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Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor, US Supreme Court, Business News

Thu Nov 19, 2009

CBS News

KSM Trial: A Confederacy for Dunces

"The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda terrorists to New York City for a civilian trial is one of the most irresponsible ever made by a presidential administration.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Legal Intelligencer

2nd Circuit Applies Immunity to Prosecutors' Post-Trial Advocacy

Prosecutors who allegedly failed to timely disclose an exculpatory DNA test conducted post-trial are shielded by absolute immunity, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

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Related Topix: US News, Monroe County, NY, Prison, Rochester, NY, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Tue Nov 17, 2009

New York Times

Court Upholds Restriction on Fifth Avenue Parades

The Veterans Day parade, a tradition that began in 1919, marched down Fifth Avenue last week.

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Related Topix: Religion, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, US News

WTIC-TV Hartford

Appeals court orders disbarred NY lawyer convicted in terrorism case to prison

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a disbarred civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case to go to prison and said a judge must consider whether her sentence of a little more than two years behind bars was too lenient.

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Related Topix: US News

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Boston.com

Appeals court disturbed by Conn. court practice

A federal appeals court says it is disturbed by allegations that some prosecutors have long denied low-income defendants their right to arraignment and free legal representation when they first appear in court.

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Related Topix: US News, Bantam, CT, Litchfield County, CT, Torrington, CT

Digital Post Production

Fox Says FCC Profanity Policy Is Indefensible

Fox calls two assertions it attributes to the FCC "stunning": 1) that the quid pro quo for an FCC license is broadcasters having to live with a poorly-articulated indecency standard and 2) that Fox is under an obligation to defend the artistic merit of speech.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Pensacola News Journal

Editorial: 'Unalienable rights'? No more

If the United States government can seize, hold and facilitate the torture of an innocent person - and then avoid any liability for it by claiming national security is at stake - what's left of America's claim to any moral standing in the world? For that matter, what's left of the Constitution, or of any individual's right to be protected from ...

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Related Topix: Prison, US News, Opinion

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Tonawanda News

COURTS: Double murder retrail for NT's Drake delayed

An appeals court judge has granted at least the second major extension in the double murder retrial of Robie Drake, pushing off the potential date for at least another two months.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, US News

KansasCity.com

US court: CIA didn't violate Plame's speech rights

A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights.The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court decision in its ruling Thursday.

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