Criminal Law

"Compassionate Release" has little effect on early release of sick and dying priosoners
January 30, 2010 Law Has Little Effect on Early Release for Inmates By CARA BUCKLEY NY Times COXSACKIE, N.Y. ? With his swollen legs and a throaty rasp that whistles like a kettle through his broken teeth, Eddie Jones is...

Personhood USA Releases New Video Documenting Infamous Roe vs. Wade Court Case
Personhood USA: Personhood USA has released a new video documenting the infamous Roe vs. Wade court case that legalized abortion in the United States. Relevant to today?s battle for human life, the video illustrates the need to recognize unborn children as people...

Reforms Needed for Compassionate Release of Prison Inmates--UCSF Researchers
Reforms Needed for Compassionate Release of Prison Inmates--UCSF Researchers June 2, 2011 The nation?s system of freeing some terminally ill prisoners on grounds of compassionate release is so riddled with medical flaws and procedural barriers that many potentially medically eligible...

Report: More states release dying or frail inmates
About 36 states have some kind of medical furlough or compassionate release programs for inmates with terminal illnesses or incapacitating disability. (North Carolina and Alabama have just jumped aboard this particular bandwagon, USA Today reports...

On the Lockerbie Defendant and Compassionate Release
It's an interesting question: Whether and when a prisoner's sentence be commuted once it's determined that a prisoner will soon die? The issue leaped into the public spotlight on Thursday when Scotland agreed to release Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent who was convicted of murdering 259 people in the terrorist attack of Pan Am Flight 103.

Bureau of Prisons Compassionate Release Policy Continues to Stifle Early Release
Guest Contributor David Scott Johnson, Esq. writes: As of the end of 2007, the Bureau of Prisons had rarely exercised its power to file a motion for a reduced sentence under the ?compassionate release? procedures found in 18 U...

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Federal Adoption Tax Credit
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Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
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Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.

Hayes Bicycle Group
Recalls Quick-Release Devices

Michigan
Settles Female Prisoner Sexual Abuse Lawsuit for $100 Million

Prisoner Abuse
Somerset County pays undisclosed settlement for failing to provide adequate securities for inmate assaults.

Nintendo Control
Video game giant to pay $21 million settlement in patent lawsuit.

Video Technology
RealNetworks to pay $533,500 settlement in licensing lawsuit.