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11 Jun 2009, 5:34 am
 boasting the changes have turned the law into a "Drug Dealers Protection Law. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 1:47 am
On this day hundreds of New Yorkers will unite in Albany to call for criminal justice reforms including prison closures, full repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, and reinvestment in our ...Building Bridges - http://prisonaction.blogspot.com/   US Businesses Plead Ignorance to New UK Bribery and Corruption ...By PR Newswire Half of US respondents (50%) were unaware of the new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent bribery committed by employees or agents… [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 2:50 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Counsel for the defendant effectively negotiated an extremely good deal for the defendant, who was facing a "Draconian" sentence if convicted of either or both of the "B" felonies that he was charged with, under the former so-called "Rockefeller Drug Laws. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 5:00 am by SHG
Rockefeller enacted the “nation’s toughest drug laws” – which did nothing more than turn our college VP into a mediator whose task was to stave off any on-campus undercover presence. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 9:00 pm by Joseph Margulies
In 2009, New York dismantled most of the Rockefeller drug laws, the model for many of the retributive drug sentencing schemes adopted nationwide during the War on Drugs. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 9:03 am by FDABlog HPM
Karst –       An April 21st letter penned by David Balto, a Senior Fellow at American Progress who focuses on competition policy, intellectual property law and health care, and Michael Carrier, a professor at the Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, and sent to five U.S. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 2:50 am
Shepherded reforms to the Rockefeller drug laws, offering an expansion of drug treatment as an alternative to  ...... [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 12:47 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
The news of Fortune 500 companies’ responses to Senator Jay Rockefeller’s fall 2012 letter about cybersecurity policy is making waves. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 3:49 am by SHG
But the concept came earlier, as the Rockefeller Drug Laws were premised on the simple notion that the more Draconian the sentence, the less likely someone would commit the crime. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 10:00 pm by News Desk
Food and Drug Administration, which NFI sees as increasing its focus on the issue. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 11:28 am by Sarena Straus
 Basically, the defendant, we’ll call him Marco, had served fifteen years to life in prison under the Rockefeller laws. [read post]
26 May 2009, 2:30 pm
  I served on sentencing commissions in two states, including here in New York, where our recommendations helped put an end to the draconian Rockefeller drug laws. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 8:54 am by Mirriam Seddiq
  We had the Rockefeller Drug laws, we had all white juries. [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 4:00 am by Jon L. Gelman
Under a presumption law, the worker is preempted to have sustained a work-related medical condition, if certain eligibility criteria are met. [read post]
31 May 2015, 5:54 am by SHG
And then there were drugs, which Nelly Rockefeller carved out because they were so darn evil that they had to be stopped, no matter what it took. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 2:39 pm
Whether this was because of our political activities or illegal drug transactions (consisting primarily of buying and selling bad Mexican marijuana in matchboxes), our sense of self-importance led us to believe we were the center of a law enforcement campaign to put us away for years if not decades. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 6:38 pm
On Drug Law Reform, he's with us: Aborn supports repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws, stating, "Drug kingpins deserve prison. [read post]
4 Jan 2020, 3:38 am by SHG
How many years did that drug dealer deserve for being too low on the totem pole to rat anyone important out? [read post]
13 Jul 2021, 10:58 am by Simon Lester
This was largely motivated by pharmaceutical firms’ commercial considerations, i.e. stronger patent protections usually result in higher drug prices. [read post]