Criminal Law

Chaplain Lacks Standing In Establishment Clause Challenge To ?Five Faiths Policy?
Religion Clause Blog: “In McCollum v. State of California, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11154 (ND CA, Feb...

Chaplain Lacks Standing In Establishment Clause Challenge To "Five Faiths Policy"
In McCollum v. State of California, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11154 (ND CA, Feb. 13, 2009), a California federal district court held that a volunteer Wiccan prison chaplain lacks both traditional standing and taxpayer standing to bring an Establishment Clause challenge to the California prison system's policy of providing paid chaplains for only five faiths-- Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and Native American...

Petitioner Lacks Standing Where Alleged Injuries Result from Lack of Proactive Town Action That Could Increase the Value of Petitioner?s Property
Standing to challenge decisions of planning and zoning boards and local legislative bodies can be a procedural roadblock to plaintiffs who are hoping for their ?day in court...

Countrywide Attorney: MBS Fund Lacks Standing To Sue Lender
Reuters reports: A fund representing bond investors seeking to force Bank of America-owned Countrywide Financial to repurchase thousands of mortgages failed to satisfy requirements to sue under contracts governing the securities, according to Countrywide attorneys...

Freedom From Religion Foundation lacks taxpayer standing to challenge the Department of Veterans Affairs' integration of pastoral care into the medical care that it provides to veterans and its use of chaplains for that purpose
Freedom From Religion Foundation lacks taxpayer standing to challenge the Department of Veterans Affairs' integration of pastoral care into the medical care that it provides to veterans and its use of chaplains for that purpose: The U...

Competitor Lacks Standing to Challenge Rezoning for Cellular Tower One Mile Away
The South Carolina Supreme Court determined that a nonadjoining property owner, whose property was about one mile away from the property in question, lacked standing to challenge the rezoning of land leased to a competitor for the purposes of constructing a cellular telephone tower...

What is your biggest challenge with (professional) networking? Thoughts? Ideas? Rants?
Finding those who want you have....

Should I return a phone call from a collection agency that doesn't name their client in the message?
In the county of the state where I live in the US, I am able to go to the websit...

What constitutes child pornography in Pennsylvania?
I tried to remove and cancel this question, but there does not seem to be a way ...

How to refile a domestic battery case that was dropped?
Most like the case can't be reopened or refiled after it has been adjudged ...

I was called to give a deposition for the defense and the defendant is the person who stole our car, there is a chance that I will be called to satisfy at his trial. How can I get out of this, as my husband is to testify
If you were subpoenaed for the deposition you will need to appear or face prosec...

Wrongful Death
alleging death was caused by the conduct of negligent defendant.