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A Shambolic Woolly Paper : Baroness Murphy at Lords of the Blog Draws a Bead on Lord Chancellor Jack Straw and his Proposals for Lords Reform
Imagine if someone called one of your written projects "shambolic".What would it mean?Baroness Murphy of the UK House of Lords at Lords of the Blog in her posting Laws are Like Sausages? did just that a few days ago to Jack Straw, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, calling his White Paper proposals for Lords reform "a shambolic woolly paper"...

UK government seeks power to remove lords for improper behavior
[JURIST] The British government intends to present legislation that would allow for members of the House of Lords to be removed for improper behavior, according to a statement by UK Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Jack Straw during a Sunday interview with BBC Radio 4 program...

UK: government proposes to elect all members of House of Lords
The Scotsman reports: Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, yesterday outlined proposals to make the Lords fully or mainly elected, although he admitted this would not happen until after the next general election, due by June 2010...

Straw man
Straw manThere must be more than one Jack Straw at large in the cabinet. The thoughtful Mr Straw wrote the forward to a recent collection of essays on penal reform, a book which not only called for a massive cut in the prison population, but included that call in its title...

Brussels I Regulation The UK Parliament has its say
The House of Lords’ influential European Union Committee (chaired by Lord Mance) has published a report on the Commission’s Green Paper on the Brussels I Regulation.  The report scrutinises the Green Paper, in light of evidence presented by representatives of the UK Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach and Oliver Parker) and Richard Fentiman of Cambridge [...

CTJ Publishes Tax Justice Digest
Citizens for Tax Justice has published its weekly Tax Justice Digest with a number of interesting pieces on: Who's Rich? New CTJ Paper Analyzes Presidential Candidates' Definitions of "Rich" Congress and the White House Eyeing Stimulus Package Stimulus Must Go...

Anna Nicole Smith's Legal Troubles
Court cases and legal issues related to Anna Nicole Smith

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

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.

Ministry of Defense
$500,000 in damages in transgender humiliation suit.

The Ministry of Defense
$500,000 in damages in transgender humiliation suit.

Rock Band Great White
Settles Over 2003 Station NightClub Fire

Housing Buyer Discrimination
White homeowner settles $30,000 buyer-discrimination lawsuit.