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28 Dec 2017, 6:00 am by Alyssa Bernstein
From the late 19th through early 20th century, prostitution in Egypt was legal, regulated, and widely patronized by colonial British soldiers. [read post]
21 Dec 2017, 8:00 am by Sevens Legal
Criminalization of Drugs There are many answers, some based in reality, as to why drugs are now illegal. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 11:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And Scott interviews the co-founder of the national Innocence Project, Peter Neufeld, discussing the role of state government in the 21st-century forensic-science-reform movement. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
(pix credit; here)The Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has just been posted to the UN's website. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 10:48 pm by GJEL
Former CFO Mark Swartz also served prison time and paid $72 million in restitution and fines. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 9:07 am by Daniel J. Hemel, Eric A. Posner
” Indeed, a lengthy historical practice of “legislative diplomacy,” tolerated grudgingly but consistently by the executive branch, goes back more than a century. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” The violator of this Act could be fined $10,000 and sentenced to twenty years in prison. [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 11:00 am by James E. Pfander
When captured, alien enemies (like the French nationals who joined the Jacobite rebellion in Britain) were subject to detention as prisoners of war and were later swapped for prisoners on the other side. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 1:10 am
The state system was once based, to some important extent, on the notion of the primacy and centrality of the state as an autonomous unit. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 7:41 am by Amy Howe
But the district court disagreed, and Carpenter was convicted and sentenced to almost 116 years in prison. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 5:44 pm by David Kopel
(Race-based laws against arms possession by enslaved Africans and Indians, and occasionally against free blacks, did exist in some 17th century American colonies, and became more common in the 18th and 19th centuries, in the South). [read post]
12 Nov 2017, 5:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" The argument there is that he was basing his invocation of his rights on some sort of subjective position that the investigators had about his guilt.Scott Henson: They did think that he was guilty. [read post]
1 Nov 2017, 12:33 pm by John Marshall
A charge for distributing the drugs in violation of 2C:35-5 was nevertheless filed based on the circumstantial evidence presented to the police. [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 2:00 am by Matrix Legal Support Service
On Thursday 2 November, the Supreme Court will hear the appeal of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation v Comic Enterprises Ltd. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
It calls for defunding completely the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program based on the completely false claims that “it has not worked, [and] there is no positive evidence and some negative evidence. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 4:50 pm by Kevin LaCroix
 Unlawful insider trading occurs when, for instance, executives buy stock in their own company based on material, nonpublic information learned on the job. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 10:42 am by Alicia Maule
By capping lifetime compensation at $199,150, people like Jerry Miller—who spent a quarter-century behind bars for a crime he did not commit—are left to rebuild their lives with woefully inadequate assistance. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 11:41 am by Lyle Denniston
America has had its Constitution for more than two centuries, and yet today there are many questions about its meaning that still do not have final answers. [read post]