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U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- The Pentagon made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture. The Justice Department memo, date.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 5, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Environmental groups seeking to protect whales from the potentially harmful effects of sonar cheered a legal victory against the Navy and the Bush administration. U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled Monday that the Navy is not exempt from c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 20, 2007 @ 9:40pm neoform

Wallstreet Journal -- A collision with a semi-trailer truck seven years ago left 52-year-old Deborah Shank permanently brain-damaged and in a wheelchair. Her husband, Jim, and three sons found a small source of solace: a $700,000 accident settlement from the trucking company i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 8:01am neoform

FOX News -- A driver who was stopped for speeding and tested over the legal limit for blood-alcohol content, but was not arrested, was killed less than three hours later Monday when his car hit a tree, according to police. Janesville police records indicate that J.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 3:00pm mrmdc

SF Gate -- State Farm Insurance Cos. is suspending sales of any new commercial or homeowner policies in Mississippi starting Friday, citing in part a wave of litigation it has faced since Hurricane Katrina, a company official said Wednesday. Mike Fernandez, vice.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 5, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

BBC News -- The US Supreme Court is set to hold a hearing in two cases that are being seen as a legal showdown over the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. The cases challenge the removal by Congress of the "habeas corpus" right of detainees under the US consti.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:04pm neoform

MSNBC -- City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses. Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Washington Post -- Oliver W. Hill, 100, a Virginia lawyer who helped overturn legal segregation in his native state and was one of the country's foremost civil rights defenders during a six-decade career, died yesterday at his home in Richmond. He had a heart ailment. Hi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 21, 2007 @ 5:10am neoform

USA Today -- A man who plowed his sports utility vehicle through a motel, killing a sleeping man, had a blood-alcohol level more than five times the legal limit to drive, authorities said. Stephen VanVleit, 58, of Anti-go was charged with felony homicide by neglige.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

Washington Post -- Prince William County is moving to enact what legal specialists say are some of the toughest measures in the nation targeting illegal immigrants, including a provision that would direct police to check the residency status of anyone detained for breaking.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 2:09pm neoform

Washington Post -- The 18-year-old Howard County wheelchair athlete who has waged a two-year fight for inclusion in high school track meets learned yesterday that she had been dealt her first significant legal setback. In a decision he described as "extraordinarily close.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A Woodinville woman arrested following two car crashes last week registered a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test — nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and possibly a state record. Deana F. Jarrett, 54, was taken to Evergreen Hosp.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Washington Post -- In an increasingly complex legal world, Robert F. Horan Jr. keeps it old school. He typically shows up for hearings, and trials, by himself -- no legal assistants, no junior prosecutors. A legal pad. A case file. Maybe a law book. Fairfax County's chie.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 12:51am neoform

Alter Net -- It is now beyond dispute that our culture is damaging the world. The only way to stop us ruining our planet is to give it legal rights. It is now beyond dispute that our culture is damaging the world. Many attempts are being made to remedy the situatio.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Denver Post -- Colorado children with only one legal parent would be able to gain a second parent if the state Senate approves a long-needed change in adoption laws already OK'd by the House on a bipartisan vote of 39 to 25. House Bill 1330 is now in the Senate's Sta.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 12, 2007 @ 7:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Workers who come to the United States on short term, seasonal contracts are routinely exploited and have few legal safeguards, according to a report issued on Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Under the "guest" worker program, employers recrui.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 12:46pm neoform

New York Times -- When a court-appointed special master last year rejected the claim of an Alabama couple that their daughter had suffered seizures after a vaccination, she explained her decision in part by referring to material from articles in Wikipedia, the collaborativ.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 4:36pm neoform

Washington Post -- MOST AMERICANS understand that legal representation for the accused is one of the core principles of the American way. Not, it seems, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs. In a repellent interview yesterday with Federa.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 7:11pm neoform

International Herald Tribune -- The broken American patent system has a knack for sanctioning the ridiculous. In the latest example, businesses are receiving patents for devising ways to pay less tax. What's next, a patented murder defense?.. Read More