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Sep 09, 2009	Feds open Madoffs' opulent penthouse and yacht QUOTE: More of the high life and times of Bernard Madoff and his family became apparent Wednesday with the release of new photos and videos of properties seized to repay investors.	Newsday
Dec 01, 2008	MySpace ruling could lead to jail for lying online daters QUOTE: Unfortunately for Internet users everywhere, a jury found Lori Drew guilty of three misdemeanor violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, punishable with up to one year in a federal prison and a $100,000 fine for each of the three counts. All those people who have lied about their age or weight in an eHarmony profile would now appear to be computer hackers.
Nov 08, 2008	Citing Workload, Public Lawyers Reject New Cases QUOTE: Public defenders’ offices in at least seven states are refusing to take on new cases or have sued to limit them, citing overwhelming workloads that they say undermine the constitutional right to counsel for the poor...in the most open revolt by public defenders in memory, many of the government-appointed lawyers say that state budget cuts and rising caseloads have pushed them to the breaking point.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2008	Shared Struggle Led Women to Political Action: Domestic Workers Spurred Montgomery Protections QUOTE: Calling themselves the Committee of Women Seeking Justice, they gather in a circle and commiserate in English, Spanish, Hindi and French. Among the topics: no sick days, little overtime pay, feeling "on call" at all hours and sleeping on basement floors. Several have shared stories of having been kept as modern-day slaves, organizers said, rarely allowed out of the house and never seeing a cent.	Washington Post
Jul 18, 2008	Should Suspects Go Free When Police Blunder? (American Exception) QUOTE: A year and a half later, an Ontario trial judge ruled that the officer’s conduct was a “brazen and flagrant” violation of Mr. Harrison’s rights. The officer’s explanation for stopping Mr. Harrison was contrived and defied credibility, the judge said, and the search “was certainly not reasonable.”	New York Times
Jul 18, 2008	Rulings Clear Military Trial of a Detainee QUOTE: Court rulings on Thursday cleared the way for the first trial at the American detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, opened in 2002 to hold suspects captured in the campaign against terrorism. The trials have been delayed for years, in part by courts that found legal fault with the commissions created to try people designated by the government as “unlawful enemy combatants.”	New York Times
Jul 18, 2008	Police Spied on Activists In Md.: Officers Infiltrated Groups During Ehrlich Years QUOTE: The 46 pages of single-spaced typed records were released this week to the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, which sued the state police in June, claiming that it had refused to release public documents that shed light on surveillance of peace activists. The civil liberties group learned in 2004 that a state police intelligence unit was monitoring Baltimore peace groups that had protested at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade that year.	Washington Post
Jul 16, 2008	An Assault on Decency (The New Old Age) QUOTE: Even the gridlocked New York State legislature was moved. Both houses unanimously passed — and Gov. David A. Paterson signed — a bill making any predatory attack on someone age 65 or over a violent felony punishable by up to seven years in prison. The new law, the first of its kind in the nation, took effect on June 29.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2008	Court Convicts Former Samsung Chief QUOTE: The former chairman of the Samsung Group, Lee Kun-hee, was convicted of tax evasion charges on Wednesday but was spared prison after the court suspended his three-year sentence. Mr. Lee was also fined $109 million. But the Seoul Central District Court cleared him of criminal charges of breach of trust, which stemmed from two Samsung affiliates’ decisions to sell stock to his son, Jae Yong, at unfairly low prices to help the son take over management control of the business empire.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2008	Former Russian Billionaire Files for Parole QUOTE: The lawyers submitted the request to the Ingoda District Court in Chita, the Siberian city where Mr. Khodorkovsky has been imprisoned since 2005, two years after his arrest on tax evasion charges. The arrest was widely seen as Kremlin-orchestrated punishment for his opposition to Vladimir V. Putin, who was president at the time and is now prime minister.	New York Times
Jul 11, 2008	Detainees, as Lawyers, Test System of Tribunals QUOTE: Why, Mr. bin Attash asked the military judge at a hearing here on Thursday, was he barred from reading classified reports as he prepares to represent himself at the trial the Bush administration wants to be the centerpiece of its Guantánamo prosecutions. He predicted that his yet-to-be-scheduled trial along with four other men charged in the 2001 attacks would end with executions, including his own, limiting the risk that the defendants would disclose any secrets.	New York Times
Jul 09, 2008	Trial About Privacy in Which None Remains QUOTE: Adding to the improbability, the trial was set off by the man who paid for the sex session, the slim, dapper, eloquent Mr. Mosley, age 68. Bravely or foolishly, as the trial may determine, he is seeking punitive damages against the tabloid, which broke the story and accompanied it with a secretly filmed video of the spanking that Mr. Mosley’s lawyer said had been viewed 3.5 million times on the paper’s Web site and on YouTube.	New York Times
Jul 09, 2008	DNA clears JonBenet Ramsey's family QUOTE: Recently developed "touch DNA" technology has cleared all members of JonBenet Ramsey's family of her slaying, authorities said Wednesday. Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy said no one in the Ramsey family is considered a suspect and formally apologized in a letter to John Ramsey for the cloud of suspicion his family has lived under for nearly 12 years.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 08, 2008	California Moves to Curb Bad Habits of Motorists QUOTE: Long commutes and a passion for the auto have long combined to make the California car a second home. But that way of life is being chipped away slightly, with a series of new laws — and more being contemplated by state legislators — that take aim at the bad habits of the state’s 22 million drivers. Last week, California became the fifth state to require that all drivers use a headset with their cellphones.	New York Times
Jul 08, 2008	Safety: Laws Reduce Drunken-Driving Deaths (Vital Signs) QUOTE: Reporting in the July issue of Accident Analysis and Prevention, the scientists calculate that the possession and purchase laws reduced the ratio of drinking to nondrinking drivers involved in fatal crashes by about 11 percent. Laws requiring an automatic license sanction for the use of fake IDs resulted in a 7 percent decrease.	New York Times
Jul 08, 2008	Princeton can keep its cops unarmed, OSHA says QUOTE: Princeton University's policy of not allowing its officers to carry guns on campus doesn't hurt the officers' ability to do their jobs, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ruled. OSHA closed the case on June 24 after ruling on June 20 that Princeton had complied with OSHA regulations. The complaint, filed by Public Safety Fraternal Orders of Police's president and patrolman James Lanzi, alleged that the policy of not allowing Public Safety officers to carry guns was an occupational hazard.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 07, 2008	Saving Michael Vick's Dogs: Pit Bulls Rescued From the Football Player's Fighting Ring Show Progress in an Unprecedented Rehabilitation Effort QUOTE: How can this be? Reports of gruesome pit bull maulings make international news. Pit bulls are one of the few canine breeds thought to be so dangerous that they are banned in some places. The answer, says Frank McMillan, a veterinarian who is studying the recovery of some of the Vick dogs, is that we don't know. "We've assumed all pits are the same, and we've never let this many fighting dogs live long enough to find out. There are hardly ever studies, because these animals don't survive," he said.	Washington Post
Jul 06, 2008	Chicago Gun Ban May Test Ruling: Challenges Follow Decision on D.C. Law QUOTE: In a city where homicide rates have risen by 13 percent over the same period last year and 26 students were killed by gunfire in the past school year, Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) thinks the Supreme Court majority that overturned the District's gun ban last month is detached from urban reality.	Washington Post
Jul 06, 2008	A Ban on Cockfighting, but the Tradition Lives On QUOTE: Last year, New Mexico became the 49th state to make cockfighting illegal. (Louisiana will become the last state when a ban there takes effect in August.) The state has devoted vast resources to ending the sport, but with only one misdemeanor conviction thus far, it continues unabated in hidden venues, cockfighters and law enforcement officials say.	New York Times
Jul 05, 2008	Offer of a Vote for Sale Draws Unwanted Attention QUOTE: The student, Max P. Sanders, 19, of Edina, was charged Thursday with one count of bribery, treating and soliciting, a felony under an 1893 Minnesota law that criminalizes the sale and purchase of votes. In May Mr. Sanders set a minimum bid of $10 for his vote this November and offered to provide photographic documentation inside the booth.	New York Times
Jul 03, 2008	France’s Terrorism Strategy Faulted QUOTE: France prides itself on having the most efficient counterterrorism strategy in Europe. French counterterrorism officials insist that the flexibility of French law and the French judicial system has been crucial in their ability to respond to the threat of international terrorism and has helped prevent attacks on French soil. But an 84-page report issued by New-York-based Human Rights Watch, entitled “Preempting Justice,” argues that that French practices result in too many arrests and convictions based on scanty evidence, putting the country “on the wrong side of the law.”	New York Times
Jul 03, 2008	Fugitive Fund Manager Who Faked Suicide Surrenders QUOTE: The fugitive hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III surrendered to law enforcement officials on Wednesday, ending a manhunt that began shortly after he faked his suicide on the day that he was to report to prison in Ayer, Mass.	New York Times
Jul 03, 2008	Trial Ordered in Concorde Crash QUOTE: A prosecutor said Thursday that Continental Airlines and two of its employees had been ordered to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges related to the crash of a Concorde supersonic airliner in 2000 near Paris in which 113 people died. In addition to Continental, the prosecutor also filed involuntary manslaughter charges against two employees of the Concorde program and an employee of the French civil aviation authority.	New York Times
Jul 03, 2008	Justice Dept. Admits Error in Not Briefing Court QUOTE: In a highly unusual admission of error, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday that government lawyers should have known that Congress had recently made the rape of a child a capital offense in the military and should have informed the Supreme Court of that fact while the justices were considering whether death was a constitutional punishment for the crime.	New York Times
Jul 03, 2008	Congolese Accused of Recruiting Child Soldiers Ordered Set Free QUOTE: Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday ordered the release of the court's first defendant, a Congolese warlord charged with the coercive recruitment of thousands of child soldiers, saying he could not receive a fair trial due to withheld evidence.	Washington Post
Jul 03, 2008	Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube QUOTE: A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far. The order raised concerns among YouTube users and privacy advocates that the video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed. But Google and Viacom said they were hoping to come up with a way to protect the anonymity of the site’s visitors.	New York Times
Jul 02, 2008	In Court Ruling on Executions, a Factual Flaw QUOTE: When the Supreme Court ruled last week that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the majority noted that a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states — not in any of the 30 other states that have the death penalty, and not under the jurisdiction of the federal government either.	New York Times
Jul 02, 2008	Airport’s Ban on Guns Is Disputed in Atlanta QUOTE: A Georgia gun rights group filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Atlanta on Tuesday after airport officials said they would continue to enforce a ban on concealed weapons in the terminal despite the changes to the state law. The changes, which were approved by the Georgia legislature in the spring and took effect on Tuesday, relax the state’s prohibition on carrying weapons on public transportation and in some other areas, including restaurants serving alcohol.	New York Times
Jul 02, 2008	Denver Archdiocese to Pay $5.5 Million in Abuse Suits QUOTE: The settlements bring to 42 the number of abuse claims the archdiocese has settled since 2005 against two priests, the Rev. Harold Robert White and the Rev. Leonard Abercrombie. A third priest, the Rev. Lawrence St. Peter, was accused in a 43rd case that was also settled. The amount of all the settlements totals more than $8.2 million. Two more abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese have yet to be resolved.	New York Times
Jul 02, 2008	Prince William helps bust $80m drug smuggling boat QUOTE: Britain's Prince William has helped the U.S. Coast Guard bust a drug smuggling boat carrying cocaine worth a minimum of $80 million. William, who is serving in the Royal Navy, helped make the bust last weekend when he spotted a speedboat found to be carrying nearly a ton of cocaine in the Atlantic Ocean, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 01, 2008	Missouri Town Finds Drug Agent Is Really an Impostor QUOTE: They said the agent, a man some had come to know as “Sergeant Bill,” boasted that he did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he worked for the federal government. But after a reporter for the local weekly newspaper made a few calls about that claim, Gerald’s anti-drug campaign abruptly unraveled after less than five months. Sergeant Bill, it turned out, was no federal agent, but Bill A. Jakob, an unemployed former trucking company owner, a former security guard, a former wedding-performing minister, a former small-town cop from 23 miles down the road. Mr. Jakob, 36, is now the subject of a criminal investigation by federal authorities, and is likely to face charges related to impersonating a law enforcement officer, his lawyer said.	New York Times
Jul 01, 2008	Grand Jury Clears Texan in the Killing of 2 Burglars QUOTE: A grand jury on Monday refused to indict a 62-year-old man who fatally shot two burglars last November as they fled his neighbor’s house. In a case that raised questions of ethnic bias, self-defense and property rights, the jury rejected charges against the man, Joe Horn, who is white. Both victims were illegal immigrants from Colombia.	New York Times
Jul 01, 2008	Prisoner death 'vigilante justice,' county official says QUOTE: A prisoner killed in a Maryland county jail on Sunday was a victim of "vigilante justice," Prince George's County Chief Executive Jack Johnson said. Ronnie White, 19, died of strangulation and asphyxiation and had two broken bones in his neck, an autopsy showed. An attorney for White's family said that because White was being held in solitary confinement at the Prince George's County Correctional Center, a corrections officer would have had to let whoever killed the prisoner into his cell.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jun 30, 2008	High-Flying Financier Starts Sentence for Soliciting Prostitution QUOTE: Federal prosecutors initially threatened to bring him to trial on a variety of charges and seek the maximum penalty, 10 years in prison. After years of legal wrangling, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges. Upon his release from jail, he must register as a sex offender wherever he goes in the United States.	New York Times
Jun 27, 2008	Take Out the Trash Precisely, Now. It’s the Law. (Whitehaven Journal) QUOTE: “I consider the fine against Mr. Corkhill to be a matter of injustice, really, and as a Christian minister I’m required to speak out against injustice,” declared the Rev. John Bannister, the rector of Whitehaven, a seaside town in Cumbria, in the far northwest. Referring to the garbage cans residents here use, he said, “To be given a criminal record for leaving your wheelie bin open by three inches has, I think, really gone beyond the bounds of responsible behavior.”	New York Times
Jun 27, 2008	Scientist, Claiming Bias, Sues U.S. Over Revoked Clearance QUOTE: An Egyptian-born nuclear physicist who worked in a government-financed laboratory here for 18 years filed a lawsuit on Thursday saying the Energy Department had revoked his security clearance because of his ethnicity, his Muslim faith and comments he made criticizing the war in Iraq.	New York Times
Jun 27, 2008	Class-Action Lawyer Gets 5 Years in Bribery Case QUOTE: Richard F. Scruggs, whose successful battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s made him among the country’s best-known plaintiff’s lawyers, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge over fees with other lawyers in his home state of Mississippi.	New York Times
Jun 26, 2008	Justices Rule for Individual Gun Rights QUOTE: Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in the landmark 5-to-4 decision, said the Constitution does not allow “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.” In so declaring, the majority found that a gun-control law in the nation’s capital went too far by making it nearly impossible to own a handgun.	New York Times
Jun 26, 2008	Right to Face Accusers Is Affirmed in Unusual Case: Witness Was Murder Victim QUOTE: The Supreme Court yesterday threw out the conviction of a man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend because the defendant could not challenge an incriminating account she gave the police weeks before her death. The 6 to 3 ruling drew howls from domestic violence opponents who said the decision could lead to perverse situations in which criminals would reap a legal "windfall" after killing their victims.	Washington Post
Jun 26, 2008	Judge Rejects Bid to Let Police Check Immigration Status QUOTE: A Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to end a longstanding police policy that prohibits officers from initiating contact with people for the sole purpose of learning their immigration status.	New York Times
Jun 26, 2008	House Votes to Expand Civil Rights for Disabled QUOTE: The House passed a major civil rights bill on Wednesday that would expand protections for people with disabilities and overturn several Supreme Court decisions issued in the last decade. The bill, approved 402 to 17, would make it easier for workers to prove discrimination. It would explicitly relax some stringent standards set by the court and says that disability is to be “construed broadly,” to cover more physical and mental impairments.	New York Times
Jun 25, 2008	Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department QUOTE: “Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”	New York Times
Jun 25, 2008	Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape QUOTE: The court overturned a ruling by the Louisiana Supreme Court, which had held that child rape is unique in the harm it inflicts not just upon the victim but on society and that, short of first-degree murder, no crime is more deserving of the death penalty.	New York Times
Jun 25, 2008	Shaquille O’Neal vs. Arizona Lawman (The Lede) QUOTE: In 2006, Mr. Arpaio conferred deputy status and the rank of colonel on Mr. O’Neal in Maricopa County, where his team, the Phoenix Suns, is based...At a New York nightclub recently, Mr. O’Neal took to the stage with a short rap song that included several words that you cannot say on television. For Mr. Arpaio, they represented a “racial conduct,” a fireable offense.	New York Times
Jun 25, 2008	Feds took too much of dishwasher's cash, judge says QUOTE: Zapeta was carrying $59,000 in cash when he was stopped at a security checkpoint at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in 2005. He told authorities he was returning home to Guatemala with the money he had saved working illegally as a dishwasher over 11 years. But federal law requires that anyone leaving or entering the country with $10,000 or more must declare it. Because Zapeta had not done so, he was detained, and his money was seized.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jun 25, 2008	160 Arrested in Immigration Raid at a Houston Plant QUOTE: The roundup on Wednesday at Action Rags USA, which is just north of the Houston Ship Channel, began at 7 a.m. and was conducted by about 200 immigration agents, said Robert Rutt, special agent in charge of the Office of Investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. It was part of more than a yearlong investigation by the agency that was prompted by accusations that Action Rags had hired illegal immigrants, Mr. Rutt said.	New York Times
Jun 24, 2008	Recruits Who Failed Checks Were Hired by Capitol Police QUOTE: The 15 recruits, who were about halfway through a 12-week training course in Georgia, were recalled to Washington over the weekend and told yesterday to resign within five days or be fired, according to several officials. Some of the recruits had criminal records, said two Capitol Police sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel matters. The sources would not specify how many had committed offenses or what types of violations were involved.	Washington Post
Jun 23, 2008	Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense QUOTE: He believed that the two imprisoned men were not guilty, and that their convictions should be dropped. Yet top officials told him, he said, to go into a court hearing and defend the case anyway. He did, and in 2005 he lost. But in a recent interview, Mr. Bibb made a startling admission: He threw the case. Unwilling to do what his bosses ordered, he said, he deliberately helped the other side win...Today, the two men are free. At the end of the hearing, which stretched over six weeks, his superiors agreed to ask a judge to drop the conviction of one, Olmedo Hidalgo. The judge granted a new trial to the other, David Lemus, who was acquitted in December.	New York Times
Jun 22, 2008	To the Trenches: The Tort War Is Raging On QUOTE: Some of the best-known plaintiff-side lawyers in the country — Richard F. Scruggs, Melvyn I. Weiss and William S. Lerach — have all pleaded guilty to charges that they tried to manipulate the justice system. The very phrase “trial lawyer” has become associated with unadulterated greed; the Association of Trial Lawyers of America now calls itself the American Association for Justice.	New York Times
Jun 20, 2008	Lawyer accuses sect leader of intimidating teen QUOTE: Natalie Malonis filed the request for the restraining order against Willie Jessop in District Court in San Angelo, Texas. She is an attorney ad litem on behalf of the 16-year-old girl, who has been named in court documents as the daughter Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned "prophet" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.	CNN (Cable News Network)

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