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India's top law official admits Mumbai 'lapses' (CNN)
India's top law enforcement official has admitted there were government "lapses" during last week's terror attack on Mumbai, amid outrage over security and intelligence failures, according to reports.
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:46:54 GMT
Texas justice fined over law firm's $168K discount (AP via Yahoo! News)
A Texas Supreme Court justice was fined $29,000 on Thursday after the state ethics commission found that a law firm provided what amounted to an illegal campaign contribution by giving him a $168,000 discount on legal fees.
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:07:05 GMT
Murdered law lecturer remembered (BBC News)
Even against the bloody backdrop of the events of the early 1980s in Northern Ireland, the murder of Queen's University law lecturer and Ulster Unionist assembly member Edgar Graham 25 years ago this weekend remains shocking.
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:11:22 GMT
Fines sought against Mo. governor over records law (AP via Yahoo! News)
Special court-appointed investigators are seeking fines against Gov. Matt Blunt, alleging he "knowingly and purposely" violated Missouri's public-records law by denying access to e-mails.
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:34:53 GMT
California health agency ignored law helping impoverished HIV patients, judge rules (Los Angeles Times)
The department is ordered to carry out the program that helps provide Medi-Cal coverage for HIV patients. The department says the plan won't work. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration flouted a six-year-old state law by failing to enact a program intended to provide medical care to impoverished Californians with HIV, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled in a decision made ...
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:14:16 GMT
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