Legal News

Border Fence May Cause Demise Of Two Texas Nature Preserves
I posted recently about the Bush administration getting a waiver to bypass environmental regulations so work could proceed on the Texas-Mexico border fence. The Dallas Morning News published an article yesterday about two wildlife preserves that may disappear if the border fence is built...

Worthless $20 Million Virtual Border Fence Scrapped 2 Months After Disgraced Do-Nothing Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Announced His Approval Of Failed Effort - Our Tax Dollars At Work
TUCSON, AZ - The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said...

Homeland Security abandons 'virtual fence' prototype along US-Mexico border
[JURIST] The US government has abandoned a prototype "virtual fence" [JURIST report] along the US-Mexico border [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] after the system failed to perform up to expectations, according to Wednesday media reports...

Waive Goodbye to Environmental Law
Alright, back up the moving trucks. Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security issued itself two waivers to enable itself to completely bypass all environmental laws to construct a 470-mile chunk of border fence through a vast section of the Southwest...

Eight Democratic Chairmen Provide Notice to File Brief in U.S. Supreme Court
From the Homeland Security Committee on the Defenders of Wildlife case: Eight Democratic Chairmen Provide Notice to File Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Case Concerns Constitutional Challenge of Waiver Authority to Bypass Laws for Border Fence Construction April 7, 2008 ? Today, Congressman Bennie G...

Homeland Security Protects USA From UT Golfers
Bad fence: At a Congressional hearing this month in Brownsville, the president of the University of Texas campus there, Juliet V. Garcia, testified that she had not been consulted before Homeland Security officials announced plans to build an 18-foot-high barrier that she said would leave the campus’s technology center and golf course “on the Mexican side of the fence...

Rightwing Extremism
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Dumb California Laws
Stupid Laws in the Sunshine State

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.

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

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Disability Discrimination
WA Corrections Dept. agrees to pay $300,000 settlement in class action lawsuit.

WA Dept. of Social and Health Services
Class action settlement reached will give $45,000 each to thousands of minority day-care providers.