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4 Nov 2:53 pm
... in a recent case, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement relied on the Lacey Act to
arrest and prosecute a group of individuals engaged in importing into the United States massive quantities of ... States v. Bengis et al., while serving as an AUSA in the SDNY) .
Possibly the most significant recent changes to the Lacey Act came in 2008. In response to increasing concerns about illegal logging around the
world, Congress considerably expanded the ...
6 Apr, 2007 5:30 am
... unclear. Moreover, one cannot help but wonder whether by focusing on these aspects of Hart's personal life, Lacey has missed an opportunity
to explore certain basic questions about his jurisprudence and its link to wider intellectual currents ... Essay attempts to take an initial step in that direction, by examining a few
select themes of Hart's jurisprudence and Lacey's interpretation of them in light of recent developments in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive
science, and law. The central argument ...
18 Sep, 2007 6:27 am
... a hunting outfitter based in Berryville, Virginia, and Hunting Consortium were indicted in Houston, Texas, for violating the Lacey Act. The
Lacey Act prohibits any person from importing, exporting, transporting, selling, receiving, acquiring or purchasing in foreign commerce ... if
the moose and sheep could shoot back). Kern and the Hunting Consortium are each charged with a felony violation of the Lacey Act, which carries
a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and a $250,000.00 fine for ...
1 Nov, 2007 5:32 pm
... a head-on car crash in Lacey. Police are still investigating the Washington Auto Accident. According to the Lacey Police, the collision happened on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007, near Ruddell Road and 45th Avenue. Involved were six teenagers driving a ... , including
a 15 year old, were airlifted to Harborview Hospital. The others, who only sustained minor injuries, were treated at a Lacey-area hospital and
released. The woman driving the SUV was also treated and released from the hospital. If you, a ...
22 Dec, 2008 9:32 pm
I'm short on time and I am pretty sure just about everyone has checked out of their business mindset for the holidays. Nevertheless, I'll give you this bit of news: APHIS has posted to
its web site some tools for Lacey Act compliance. Lacey Act Declaration form. Plant classification
database. And here, for good measure, is the APHIS Lacey Act home page.
26 Feb 10:40 am
They can't seem to leave the Lacey Act alone. This was introduced February 24: S. 462 Boxer: A bill to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the importation, exportation, transportation, and sale, receipt, acquisition, or purchase in interstate or foreign
commerce, of ... on Thomas. Don't get me wrong. I am a big fan of prohibiting the illegal trade in animals. I'm OK with the bill (at least with the title). It just seems like this is
not a good time to be piling on the poor Lacey Act.
8 Jun 2:57 pm
The city of Lacey installed a red-light camera at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Sleater-Kinney Road on June 1st, 2008. Lacey was the first city in Thurston County to install the cameras which enable police to cite drivers who run red lights. Accident data has been ... in 2007,
there were 21 car accidents; and in 2008, there were 18 car accidents including seven injury-accidents. Lacey police have issued 4,067
red-light tickets since the cameras were installed. The fine for running a red-light is ...
30 Jan, 2007 11:14 am
... faced serious adult time; they're charged with Assault I in the shooting of two local men. From the Olympian: 2 men shot near Lacey Two
Thurston County men are being treated for gunshot wounds after an apparent gang-related shooting outside a Lacey-area apartment complex early
Saturday morning... Three arrested in connection to weekend shooting The Thurston County Sheriff's Office made three arrests Monday night in connection with the ...
18 Sep, 2008 11:53 am
Reliable sources are telling us here at Customs Law Blog Central that enforcement of the Lacey Act Amendments will be delayed past the current
December 15 schedule. Right now, we understand that the enforcement date will be April 1, 2009. Additionally, implementation may be phased in with the initial emphasis on "core" wood
products such as lumber. Work is being done to determine whether an existing Fish & Wildlife database might be used to permit electronic filing of the required ...
17 Dec, 2008 11:57 am
Nicola Lacey (London School of Economics - Law Department) has posted Out of the 'Witches' Cauldron'?: Reinterpreting the Context and
Re-Assessing the Significance of the Hart-Fuller Debate on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Just ... to assess the debate's overall significance for legal scholarship today. Highly
recommended. But if I may be permitted an observation, Lacey may have underestimated Fuller's continued influence outside the context of
analytic jurisprudence--which I should think could not ...
29 Jul 1:19 am
Nicola Lacey, Women, Crime, and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles was reviewed in the Times Higher Education
supplement (UK) a while ago, but I've just come across it. Tess Cosslett, Lancaster University, writes: Nicola Lacey's book is a version of her
2007 Clarendon Law Lectures; although "expanded", it is shorter, and with a narrower, tighter focus than the usual
6 Apr, 2007 12:18 am
John Mikhail, Georgetown, has posted a review essay recently published in the Georgetown Law Journal, 'Plucking the Mask of Mystery from its Face': Jurisprudence and H.L.A. Hart. He
reviews Nicola Lacey, A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004). Here's the abstract: Until recently,
little was known of H.L.A. Hart's private life. That has now changed with
21 Sep, 2007 2:04 am
Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics, has posted a new paper, From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Women, Autonomy and Criminal
Responsibility in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England. Here's the abstract: In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a novel whose heroine was a sexually
adventurous, socially marginal property offender. Only half a century
21 Sep, 2007 4:03 pm
The abstract: In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a novel whose heroine was a sexually adventurous, socially marginal property offender. Only half a
century later, this would have been next to unthinkable. In this paper, the disappearance of Moll Flanders, and her supercession in the annals of literary female offenders by heroines
like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, serves as a metaphor for fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th and ...
22 Jan, 2008 6:47 am
... , the government prosecutes more than just Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships cases. On January 14, 2008, David S. Wong, a resident of Elk Grove Village, Ill., pleaded guilty in
United States District Court in Los Angeles to violating the Lacey Act for purchasing and re-selling a specific species of fish in the catfish
family that had been imported illegally. An anti-dumping duty was placed on Pangasius hypophthalmus imports from Vietnam on January 31, 2003, after a petition was filed by the ...
5 Jun, 2008 7:02 pm
An 18-year-old girl who was slated to graduate from high school in one week, died in a Lacey car crash over the weekend. According to police,
she was driving drunk. Mason County Sheriff's Deputies say they think the teen was speeding and had been drinking early Saturday morning when she lost control of her Suzuki Sidekick and
crashed into a tree. The girls' family members do not know whether or not there was alcohol involved in the crash, all they know is that their daughter/granddaughter is ...
11 Jun, 2008 10:26 pm
The Olympian reports that the license for The Colonial House Adult Family Home Care in Lacey, Washington has been revoked by the State
Department of Social and Health Services. The license revocation means that the facility cannot accept any new residents or previous residents can not be re-admitted. According to the
report, the Colonial violated several regulations which could affect "the safety and well-being of residents." The violations include: Failure to maintain a safe medication system ...
23 Aug, 2008 6:00 pm
The Olympian reports that a woman was hit and killed by a freight train in Lacey on Friday. According to the report, "Thurston County chief
criminal deputy James Chamberlain said the woman's death might have been a suicide." The conductor of the train said "[the woman] was walking straight into the train as it was
approaching her, and there was no attempt to get out of the way." The incident occurred near where Highway 510 crosses the railroad tracks. Police have not the name of the woman but ...
12 Sep, 2008 9:01 pm
... in the Pacific Time Zone this week. Although it would be nice to say that I was surfing, sunning, and sailing, I was actually working. Still, it is always refreshing to see a palm
tree and an ocean. Speaking of palm trees, I did a piece on the Lacey Act amendments for the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders
Association of America. I don't have too many details in the article, but I think this is important stuff. If you've been visiting this blog for any length of time, you know I tend to
...
8 Oct, 2008 4:05 am
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will host a public meeting on October 14, 2008 to discuss the new declaration requirement
established by recent revisions to the Lacey Act. The meeting will be held in the Jefferson Auditorium at USDA's South... This is a summary of
the article. Click on the above link or visit www.tradelawnews.com to read the entire article.
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