Title616 A9244 Heastie -- Relates to the termination of a residential lease by a victim of domestic violence 615 A9206 Barclay -- Authorizes the town of Camillus to change the retirement plan that it offers to police officers and firefighters 614 A9145 Schimminger -- Extends the provisions relating to the registration of kegs 613 A9002A Sweeney (MS) -- Creates the New York state sea level rise task force… [read post]

In addition, on 4 May 2007, the Tennessee Attorney General requested an execution date for Daryl Holton, a former soldier with a history of depression, who has effectively waived his appeals and has been found competent to do so.The execution of another "volunteer", Carey Dean Moore, due to be carried out in Nebraska on 8 May 2007, was stopped by the state Supreme Court on 2 May in view of concerns - not raised by Moore - about Nebraska's use of the electric chair. [read post]

Oxman warns us that this expansion, plus a focus on short-term goals at the expense of long-run systemic values, threatens to drain the virtues of the law of the sea and leave it looking like … land. [read post]