Legal News

Increase in human trafficking getting the attention of Maryland legislators
"Human trafficking is on the rise throughout the region, those who work with victims say, but so are local efforts to combat it."

DHS OIG Reports: Hurricane Katrina Multitier Contracts, Gulf Coast Hurricanes Mission Assignment Funding, Info Tech Letter for FEMA
OIG-08-81 - Hurricane Katrina Multitier Contracts (PDF, 26 pages ) New 08/04/2008: "Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast on...

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Initiatives Against Human Trafficking, Smuggling
Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of coercion, force or fraud. Human trafficking is usually for the purposes of subjecting an individual to involuntary servitude, debt bondage or slavery...

What Human Rights Law Obscures: Global Sex-Trafficking and the Demand for Children
I will examine what recent legal initiatives--international and domestic--in the realm of human trafficking have achieved. It is my contention that these initiatives have, perversely, made it particularly difficult to encourage a genuine public reaction to the phenomenon of child sex trafficking, precisely because of an insistence that there be a unitary definition of human trafficking as the ?new slavery...

New GAO Reports: Hurricane Katrina, Medicare Part D
Hurricane Katrina: Continuing Debris Removal and Disposal Issues, GAO-08-985R, August 25, 2008 Medicare Part D: Some Plan Sponsors Have Not...

Human trafficking in Florida
A few weeks back, William Finnegan had an outstanding piece of reportage in the New Yorker on the scourge of human trafficking. Most people don't know enough about the scope or intensity of this tragic trade in human flesh, so, if you haven't read the article yet, I want to draw your attention to it...

Baseball Players Named in Mitchell Report
Major League Baseball Players using Performance Enhancing Drugs

Hurricane Damage
Katrina victim to get $48 million settlement in insurance lawsuit.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

FDA
Life-Threatening Complications Associated with Recombinant Human Bone Graft Products

Katrina Victims See Justice, Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions
Katrina Victims See Justice Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions

US Federal Government
allegedly violated the niversal Declaration of Human Rights by deporting undocumented parents of US born children.

Hurricane Ike
Gulf Coast Residents Fight for Compensation