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Amid Bribery Scandal Walmart Encourages 'Integrity' At Employee Rally

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Corruption, Walmart, Video, US Department of Justice, Mike Duke, Reuters, Walmart Bribery, Walmart Mexico Probe, Securities and Exchange Commission, Integrity, Business News

* Wal-Mart international executives cheer on employees * Talk of Mexico bribery scandal largely avoided * Wal-Mart share...

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Killing Democracy One Vote at a Time

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Voter ID, American Civil Liberties Union, Kill-at-Will Laws, U.S. Department of Justice, Suffrage, American Legislative Exchange Council, Voter Identification, Alec, Brennan Center for Justice, Trayvon Martin, 1965 Voting Rights Act, Aclu, U.S. Supreme Court, Video, Voter ID Laws, Politics News

Voter ID restrictions work for the rich. They've got birth certificates and photo driver's licenses and passports. Or they can send a servant or secretary to apply for the documents. And the more rabble removed from the polls, the more weighty the votes of the wealthy.

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Mexico Unlikely To Investigate Walmart Bribery Allegations

Reuters | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Corruption, Walmart, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Video, Enrique Pena Nieto, U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Reuters, New York Times, Bribery, U.S. Department of Justice, Business News

MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) - Nearly half of Mexico's state prosecuting authorities said on Tuesday they had no immediate plans to investigate a...

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Nikki Haley Pursues Lawsuit Against Obama Administration

St. Andrews Patch | Hal Millard | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: South Carolina Voter Id, Election Laws, U.S. Department of Justice, Voter Identification, Nikki-Haley-Voter-Id, State and Local Government, Nikki Haley South Carolina Governor, Voter ID Laws, Department of Justice, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley South Carolina, South Carolina Politics, Voter ID, Politics News

Haley, Wilson, Harrell, and Bright all argued that photo IDs are required for a wide array of things, from signing up for Medicaid, to purchasing cert...

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Report: Bullying Not Direct Cause Of Truancy, Schools Can Support Victims

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: School Bullying Laws, Anti-Bullying Laws, Video, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Truant Students, US Department of Justice, Bully Victims, Teen Bullying, School Bullying, Truancy, Anti-Bullying, Education News

School bullying does not directly cause more students to skip school, but challenges to the underlying social and emotional complexities exist, new re...

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Alabama Attorney General Rebuffs Fed's "Express Authority" In School Immigrant Probe

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Luther Strange, Assistant-US-Attorney-General-Thomas-Perez, Alabama Public Schools, Public School Enrollment, Undocumented Immigrants, School Enrollment, Undocumented Students, Equal Access to Public Education, Alabama Schools, Alabama Undocumented Students, US Justice Department, Alabama Immigration, Video, US Department of Justice, Equal Access, Alabama Immigration Law, Thomas Perez, Education News

In the latest of a series of sparring letters between the U.S. Justice Department and Alabama over educational issues surrounding the state's new immi...

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Asian-American Students Bullied More Than Those In Any Other Ethnic Group

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Bullying, Criminal Victimization, National Crime Victimization Survey, Nces, Cyber Bullying, Asian American Students, Student Criminal Victimization, School Violence, Asian Students Bullied, Student Victimization, Asian Students, Online Bullying, Video, School Crime Supplement, National Center for Educational Statistics, US Department of Justice, Asian American Students Bullied, School Bullying, Education News

For the most part, the instance of student victimization in schools has fallen since 1995, according to a new report by the National Center for Educat...

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Alabama Attorney General Balks At Feds' School Enrollment Data Request

AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 01.03.2012

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama's attorney general is questioning the U.S. Justice Department's legal authority to get enrollment information about a...

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Department Of Justice: Texas Redistricting Maps Violate Voting Rights Act

AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Mexican American Legal and Defense Fund, Voting Maps, Elections 2012, U.S. Department of Justice, Voting Rights Act, Minority Voters, Rick Perry, Texas, Redistricting, Texas Republicans, Texas Redistricting, Gop, Department of Justice, Texas Senate, Voting, Minorities, Texas House, Republicans, Politics News

AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing Monday that Texas' new voting maps for Congress and for the Texas House do...

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DOJ Says Suffolk County, N.Y., Police Need Improvements on Hate Crimes

Mark Potok | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Hate Crime, U.S. Department of Justice, Suffolk County Police Department, Latino Immigrants, Anti-Latino Crime, Latino Immigrants Rights, Crime, Violent Crime, Politics News

The Department of Justice sent a letter to officials earlier urging non-mandatory improvements in the way that the Suffolk County, N.Y., Police Department investigates hate crimes.

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Feds: American Indian Tribes Proceed 'Cautiously' With New Crime-Fighting Authority

AP | By FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: TRIBAL LAW and ORDER ACT, Restorative Justice, Native American, Indian Law and Order Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, American Indian, Tribal Land, Indian Country, Crime News

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A year after a federal law gave American Indian tribes more authority to combat crime on reservations, few have taken the steps to...

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Remembering Booker

The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Aclu, Video, U.S. Department of Justice, Denver Sheriff Department Deputies, Marvin Booker, ACLU Colorado, Alexander Landau, Denver Police Brutality, Michael DeHerrera, Naacp, Denver News

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of Marvin Booker's death, a homeless street preacher whose death has rejuvenated civil rights conversations, ...

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Home Depot Accused Of Violating Buy American Act

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Government Claims, u.s. Jobs, Buy American Act of 1933, U.S. Department of Justice, Home Depot Lawsuit, Buy American Act Violations, Home Depot, Buy American Act, Home Depot Buy American Act, Business News

SAN FRANCISCO — The photograph on Home Depot's website shows a line of smiling soldiers unloading a truck stacked with power tools and other com...

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Regulations For Untaxed Swiss Bank Accounts In The Works

Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, Ubs, Fatca, Alpine Accounts, U.S. Department of Justice, Mario Tuor, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, International Monetary Fund, Imf, Tax Evasion, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, Finance Ministry, Business News

ZURICH (Catherine Bosley) - Swiss and U.S. authorities have held informal exploratory talks that touched on regularizing untaxed money held by wea...

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DOJ To Clarify Medical Marijuana Legislation

AP | By LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Pot Legislation, Doj, U.S. Department of Justice, Illinois-Medical-Marijuana-Laws, Attorney General Eric Holder, Medical Marijuana, Department of Justice, Pot, Eric Holder, Denver News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder promised Thursday to clarify the Justice Department's position on state medical marijuana laws a...

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Feds Join Suit About S.C. Jail's Book Policy

Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Prison Legal News, Religious Freedom in America, William N. Nettles, American Civil Liberties Union, Berkeley County Detention Center, U.S. Department of Justice, South Carolina Prison, Religion News

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Bibles cannot be the only reading materials allowed in jail, the U.S. Department of Just...

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Kentucky's Coal Cabinet

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

There's a storm brewing in Kentucky among coal companies and state government.

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College and University Campus Communities Can Come Together to Eliminate Sexual Violence

S. Daniel Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Campus SaVE Act, Campus Sexual Assault, U.S. Department of Justice, Dickinson-College-Sexual-Assault, Sit-In, College News

Between one-fifth and one-quarter of all female undergraduates will be the victim of a completed or attempted rape during their college careers.

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The Liberal Case for Tom Tancredo

Jessica Peck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Mexican Drug Cartels, Mason Tvert, Milton Friedman, US Department of Justice, Colorado Medical Marijuana, Dan Maes, Marijuana Legalization, John Hickenlooper, Tom Tancredo, Denver News

Tancredo and his last minute surge begs a question not yet pondered by most strategists or voters: what would his victory mean for Colorado?

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A Fresh Start

Jim Gibbons | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: U.S. Department of Justice, Jim Gibbons, Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids, Pew, Goodwill Industries International, Goodwill, Charles Plummer, Prison-Reentry, Healthy Living News

In 2008, The Pew Center on the States found that more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were incarcerated. Of those adults, more than half wil...

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The Controversy Surrounding the Criminal Probe into the Gulf Oil Spill

Susan Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Enron, Oil-Spill-Criminal-Investigation, BP Oil Spill, US Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Exxon Valdez, Green News

Political opponents of Obama contended that a criminal investigation diverted BP's attention from efforts to plug the well. The prospect of being prosecuted criminally may even have strengthened BP's effort to get matters under control.

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After Fatal Beating, Racial Tension, and Police Corruption, Shenandoah Inches toward Justice

John Amaya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Luis Ramirez, U.S. Department of Justice, Derrick Donchak, Police Misconduct, Violence, Kicking, Indictments, Fbi, Beating, Conspiracy, Civil Rights Division, Federal Indictments, Extortion, Thomas E. Perez, Justice, Fatal Beating, Obstruction of Justice, Commission of a Hate Crime, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Bigotry, Petty Infraction, Hate, Crime, Pa, Shenandoah, Police Officer Jason Hayes, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice, Brandon Piekarsky, Lieutenant William Moyer, Maldef, Official Misconduct, Federal Grand Jury, Damning Evidence, Criminal Charges, State Trial, Hitting, Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor, Tampering With Evidence, Racial Slurs, Nclr, National Council of La Raza, Home News

In the case of the fatal beating of Luis Ramirez, a federal grand jury recently delivered indictments that included the commission of a hate crime, obstruction of justice, official misconduct, and extortion.

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Monsanto Squeezes Out Seed Business Competition, AP Investigation Finds

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monsanto, Seeds, Seed Business, Crops, Farming, Argriculture, Anti-Turst, Justice Department, Usdoj, US Department of Justice, Genes, Genetically Modified Food, Genetically Modified Crops, Patents, Patent, Patent Law, Food, Food Politics, Business News

ST. LOUIS — Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing compet...

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'Prostitution Pledge' Injunction Appeal Dropped By DOJ

RH Reality Check | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Prostitution Pledge, Doj, US Department of Justice, Department of Justice, Justice Department, World News

During a press briefing at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, a young Bangladeshi woman invited by the organization for which I was...

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ICE: Above the Law?

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Detention, US Department of Justice, Asylum, Ice, Politics News

Civil liberties advocates say the immigration detention system has caused an as-yet unknown number of deaths in recent years and subjected thousands of immigrants to inhumane conditions.

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