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Court reinstates Quran lawsuit
Legal News Center 01/17/2007A lawsuit that could determine whether Muslims, Jews and other non-Christians can use the holy texts of their faith to affirm courtroom testimony can move forward, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The decision means the controversy that start...
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Pentagon admits spying on citizens within US
Legal News Center 01/14/2007The CIA and the American military have been accessing the banking and credit records of hundreds of American citizens suspected of ties to terror groups, the New York Times reported Sunday. Since 9/11, the two US government arms have been using littl...
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Justice Department Hit With Hiring Freeze
Legal News Center 01/13/2007[##_1L|1233934351.jpg|width="150" height="145" alt=""|_##]Three US Justice Department agencies - the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI - are freezing or slowing recruitment effort...
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Posada Faces Seven Charges, None for Terrorism
Legal News Center 01/12/2007A federal grand jury in the Western District of Texas has returned a seven-count indictment charging Luis Posada Carriles with one count of naturalization fraud and six counts of making false statements in a naturalization proceeding, the Department ...
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First US execution of 2007 held in Oklahoma
Legal News Center 01/10/2007The first US execution of 2007 took place Tuesday, when the state of Oklahoma executed a man by lethal injection for the 1992 murders of four people. The US Supreme Court denied Corey Duane Hamilton's request for a stay of execution and certiorari re...
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US House Passes Anti-Terror Legislation
Legal News Center 01/09/2007The US House of Representatives passed its first piece of legislation for the 110th Congress late Tuesday, a bill to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission remaining after the enactment of the Intelligence Reform bill in 2004. The bill ...
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Court Denies EchoStar Appeal
Legal News Center 01/09/2007The Supreme Court Monday denied EchoStar's appeal of a lower court decision preventing the company from offering distant network TV station signals to its subscribers. That December 1 cut-off came after a years-long legal tussle with broadcasters ove...
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Illegal immigrants' rearrest rate high
Legal News Center 01/08/2007Illegal immigrants in the US who have been arrested and released within US borders appear to exhibit a markedly high rate of reincarceration, according to a report released by the US Department of Justice on Monday. The report...judgmentally selected...
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Trash-hauling case attracts lawmakers to D.C.
Legal News Center 01/07/2007[##_1L|1363258681.jpg|width="150" height="100" alt=""|_##]Local officials are heading to Washington, D.C., tomorrow to be present for a case going before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case focuses on whether garbage haulers have the right to bring the ...
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Supreme Court to hear capital, labor cases
Legal News Center 01/06/2007[##_1L|1098792153.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The US Supreme Court Friday granted certiorari in seven cases, including a capital case, an endangered species case, and two labor-related cases among others. In the Texas death row case Panet...
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Death sentences at lowest level in 30 years
Legal News Center 01/05/2007[##_1L|1233846936.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]The number of death sentences issued in 2006 reached the lowest level in 30 years, according to a 2006 year-end report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center. The DPIC reported that th...
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IRS Warns of Scams and Fraud in 2007
Legal News Center 01/03/2007The dawning of a new year for many is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and resolve to do more in the months ahead—lose more weight, be more generous, and, of course, make more money. Unfortunately scammers of all stripes will be seeking their...