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Will The Law Regard The CIA Interrogations as Torture, or Not?

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McClatchey DC – The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on harsh treatment of detainees prompted renewed calls for legal action against CIA officers, but the Obama administration on Tuesday questioned the need for criminal prosecution. No prosecutions would be warranted if the intelligence officers were carrying out U.S. government policy and following legal guidance, said senior […]

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Holsey Executed Despite Disability and Alcoholic Lawyer

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Arguments that his intellectual disability should see Robert Wayne Holsey reprieved from the death penalty failed before the US Supreme Court and Holsey was killed by lethal injection Tuesday night. Lower courts had already rejected Holsey’s lawyers’ arguments that an intellectual disability and the fact that his trial lawyer was an alcoholic meant he should

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50 Top Law Schools

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Ranking law schools – any schools actually – is a controversial and tricky process at the best of times, which hasn’t prevented many trying. Now we have The Chronical ranking the 50 best law schools in the US based on a survey of over 300 lawyers and other legal professionals and using online survey tool

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Former Medical Research Fund Controller Charged with Embezzling Over $1.8 Million

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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), and Shantelle P. Kitchen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations Division (“IRS-CI”), announced today the arrest of KAREN

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The $1 Billion Divorce Deal

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Let’s face it, there are not many divorce settlements that land the divorcee instantly in the list of the richest people in America.  But that’s what is happening with the divorce deal done between Oklahoma oil man Harold Hamm and his former wife, who is now set to pocket close to $1 billion. Your read

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