Criminal Law

Mexico ex-drug lord returns to Mexico after release from US prison
[JURIST] Mexican drug lord Francisco Rafael Arellano-Felix was released from a US prison Tuesday and has returned to Mexico, according to a source at the Mexican Attorney General's office [official website, in Spanish]...

Recruiting Banners Tell Third-World Mexican Police To Join Drug Cartels Or Die - Warnings Issued To Officers Over Police Radio Frequencies - Mexicans Assume Police Are Corrupt Until Proven Otherwise, So There Is No Stigma Attached To Killing Cops
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO ? Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die. The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists...

Most Populous Cities Estimates
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Phoenix is now the nation's fifth most populous city, with an estimated population of 1.5 million. The top three cities remain New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago...

Read News: Drug War Unjust to African Americans: Two Reports Detail Racial Disparity in Arrests and Imprisonment
The Sentencing Project’s newest study, Disparity by Geography: The War on Drugs in America’s Cities, is the first city-level analysis of drug arrests, examining data from 43 of the nation’s largest cities between 1980-2003...

Mexico President Calderon: U.S. Drug Use Calls For Stronger Action
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 30, 2008. "The U.S. needs to do more to help Mexico battle narcotics gangs, because Mexican police are dying in a war fueled largely by U.S...

Ignoring the noise from next door
The problems that the obsolescent U.S. drug prohibition policy exacerbate along the Texas-Mexico border are a frequent topic on this blog, so this Mary Anastasia O'Grady/W$J article on the latest developments in the drug war just south of the...

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

US Government
alleging land surveyors should not be allowed on private property to build a US Mexican border wall.

Drug Manufacturer Rebates
Caremark Corp. agrees to pay $38.5 million settlement after convincing doctors to switch drug brands.

Salmonella Found in Tomotoes
57 Reported Cases in New Mexico and Texas

19 Washington Cities
Face Traffic Fines Class Action

AT&T
Reaches Preliminary $65 Million Settlement with Missouri Cities

FDA Issues Warning Regarding Topical Ibuprofen Drug Products
Topical Ibuprofen Drug Products FDA Issues Warning Letters