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U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- A man who tried to burn his 6-year-old son to death in 1983 was properly sentenced to 25 years to life in prison under the "three strikes" law for two recent weapons convictions, a state appeals court ruled today. The First District Court of Appeal in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 21, 2007 @ 12:45pm neoform

New York Times -- Well into the night of Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz sat alone at his desk in the headquarters of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, consumed with a new project. He often worked late. From the time Diaz enlisted in t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:31pm neoform

www.floridatoday.com -- Florida elections officials will begin enforcing a law which changes the state's "rules of political engagement": campaigns can't ask voters about the issues. For example, political committees that push or want to defeat ballot initiatives, such as cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 1:25am neoform

Associated Press -- New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution - as 11 other states do - but requires New Mexico to oversee a product.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:06am neoform

Washington Post -- An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Just.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

SF Gate -- A man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 should have to serve out the widely criticized mandatory term, a prosecutor told a judge Wednesday. A lawyer for Genarlow Wilson, now 21, asked.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 5:00pm neoform

Washington Post -- The law: Banned the sale or use of data on individual doctors' prescribing choices for marketing and other commercial purposes, while allowing it for research, law enforcement and patient education. The goal was to protect physician privacy and reduce hea.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

New York Times -- For more than five years, President Bush authorized government spying on phone calls and e-mail to and from the United States without warrants. He rejected offers from Congress to update the electronic eavesdropping law, and stonewalled every attempt to i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 12:23pm neoform

USA Today -- A woman accused of rendering a friend a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car "like a rag doll" may not be protected by California's good Samaritan law, an appellate court ruled. The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a decision Wednesday t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 4:26pm neoform

BBC News -- A US federal judge has overturned a law designed to protect children from viewing internet pornography, saying it violated the right of free speech. The law made it illegal for websites to provide children access to "harmful" material, but it was never.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 12:31pm neoform

BBC News -- Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at intellectual property protection in the US and finds it somewhat out of step with the rest of the world. The International Intellectual Property Alliance, an association that brings together US lobby.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 9:30am mrmdc

SF Gate -- Huber Herrera coughed into his sleeve. He ran over to a trash can to dispose of some tissues. He no longer had a fever, but he'd had one over the weekend when he showed up for his shift in a downtown San Francisco restaurant.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 10:32am mrmdc

Daily Kos -- Bush is fed up with hearing how his actions and policies violate our privacy rights. True to Bush’s Orwellian worldview, his answer is to create a privacy board to ostensibly protect our rights. In reality, it is Mr. Decider who controls the privacy boa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 10:23pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Entitlements: About to become law is an agreement allowing illegal aliens to get Social Security benefits after only 18 months of employment in the U.S., further burdening a system on the brink of collapse... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 12:17pm neoform

Alter Net -- The radical Christian Right is coming dangerously close to its goal of taking over the country’s military and law enforcement... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 3:39pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- Kevin Watt crouched down to search the rusted Cadillac he had stopped for cruising the parking lot of a Raleigh apartment complex with a broken light. He pulled out two open Bud Light cans, an empty Corona bottle, rolling papers, a knife, a hammer, a ster.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 10:22pm neoform

Washington Post -- Attorneys for captives in the Guantanamo Bay military prison asked a federal appeals court yesterday to reject a provision of the new military-commission law that strips hundreds of detainees of their right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 27, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- Since even the long arm of the law can't rein in fuel prices, the long legs of the law are getting more exercise these days. Bicycle patrols — a community policing tactic that some law enforcement agencies de-emphasized in recent years — are seeing.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to a ban on Internet gambling brought by an online gambling association, but gave the group legal standing to challenge the law in an appellate court. U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper in Trenton determined th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 19, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- What we have here is a mandatory conservation bill,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas. He argued that the auto fuel efficiency requirements and the huge increase in ethanol use may not prove to be technologically or economically possible. Democrats disa.. Read More