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Comcast Launches "TV Everywhere": Say Goodbye to Free Online Television

Josh Silver | Posted 01.04.2010 | Media

Read More: Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Fcc, Ftc, AT&T, Antitrust, Price-Gouging, Cable Tv, Justice Department, Comcast, Media News

Cleverly marketed as a consumer-friendly product, TV Everywhere is really a desperate bid by old media giants to crush the emerging market for online TV.

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Spectranetics Will Pay $5 Million To End Federal Probe

AP | By MARLEY SEAMAN | Posted 12.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Coral, Fda, Medicare, Justice Department, Colorado Springs, Spectranetics, Immigration and Customs, Denver News

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New York's Juvenile Prisons Are a Crime

David A. Love | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Youth, Abuse, Child Abuse, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Criminal Justice System, Prison, New York Times, Criminal Justice, Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice System, Sexual Abuse, Justice Department, New York, Children's Defense Fund, Juvenile Justice, Politics, New York News

If you can judge a society by the way it treats its children, then New York fails in a big way. In fact, the Empire State should be found guilty of child abuse and neglect.

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Amir Hossein Ardebili, Iranian Lured In Sting, Sentenced To 5 Years By U.S.

politico.com | Laura Rozen | Posted 12.15.2009 | World

Read More: Kian Tajbakhsh, Georgia, Iran, US Exports, Amir Hossein Ardebili, Justice Department, Deleware, World News

A federal judge in Wilmington, Delaware sentenced an Iranian citizen to five years prison today in a case that some export control lawyers said may se...

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Monsanto Squeezes Out Seed Business Competition, AP Investigation Finds

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

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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New Orleans Police Shot 10 Civilians, 4 Of Whom Died, After Katrina, New Probe Finds

ProPublica | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pbs, New Orleans Police, New Orleans, Crime, Police, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Times Picayne, Katrina, Media, Propublica, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Frontline, Department of Justice, Police Shootings, Times-Picayune, Justice Department, Times Picayune, Politics News

During the turbulent days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, New Orleans police shot 10 civilians, at least four of whom died, according to interv...

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A Call to Arms for Civil Rights Activists

Fred Redmond | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Dr. Martin Luther King, Bill Clinton, Unemployment, Wall Street, Great Recession, Civil Rights, Usw, Foreclosure, United Steelworkers, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Day of Service, Justice Department, Politics News

I challenged USW civil rights committee members to shield the downtrodden in society, to aid those felled by the current economic crisis, to serve as their brothers' and sisters' keepers.

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Obama's Biggest Mistake

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Insurance Industry, Montana, Melodee Hanes, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Girlfriend, Justice Department, Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney, Home News

Baucus asked the White House to appoint his girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, as Montana's U.S. Attorney. Didn't Obama learn anything from their years in Chicago surrounded by the patronage politics of the Daley machine?

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Prison Population Drops In New York, Grows To 1.6 Million Across US

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Prison Population, Jails, Prisons, Inmates, 1.6 Million Prisoners, Justice Department, Prison System, New York News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. prison population edged up slightly last year, though the number of total inmates dropped in 20 states, including New York...

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David Ogden Resigning: Deputy Attorney General Returning To Private Practice

Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Daivd Ogden Steps Down, Deputy Attorney General, Justice Department, David Ogden Justice, Ogden Doj, Justice Second in Commeand, David Ogden Stepping Down, Ogden, David Ogden, David Ogden Doj, Slidepoll, Politics News

Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden is leaving the Justice Department to return to private law practice in Washington after less than a year. Ogden...

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DOJ Says Government Can Honor Existing ACORN Contracts

NYT | CHARLIE SAVAGE | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, Congress, Justice Department ACORN, Justice Department, Acorn, Politics News

The department's conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Of...

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Guantanamo Detainees: Colorado Officials Say They Haven't Been Contacted About Housing Inmates

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Colorado Supermax, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Al-Qaeda, Evan Dreyer, Justice Department, Bill Ritter, Eric Holder, Denver News

DENVER — Colorado officials say they haven't been contacted by the federal government regarding housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay in the sta...

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Google Books and the High Bar for Approval: Why Opt-In May Sink the Deal

Peter Brantley | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Google Book Deal, Technology News, Google Books Deal, Department of Justice, Justice Department, Technology, Google Book Search, Google, Google Books, Books-News, Books News

The only way this book digitization effort makes business sense for Google is if it can amass control over a sizeable swath of rights and can monetize those rights at will in future business models.

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FBI Watch List Includes 400,000 People

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...

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Obama Administration Seeks To Block Wiretap Suit

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wiretap Lawsuit, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Wiretapping, Obama Administration, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping – the fi...

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A Seedling of Sanity Takes Root in the War On Drugs

Rich Robinson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Medical Marijuana, Justice Department, Medicine, Marijuana, Pot, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Legalize Marijuana, Politics News

It is time to cast aside all of the misinformation and propaganda about what marijuana is and what it is not. At least we are on the right path.

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Genesio Oliveira, Gay Brazilian Married To Massachusetts Man, Is Denied Asylum

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Asylum Seekers, Tim Coco, John Kerry, Attorney General, Obama Administration, Doma, Asylum, Justice Department, Defense of Marriage Act, Genesio Oliveira, Eric Holder, Politics News

BOSTON — A gay Brazilian man has been denied asylum by the Obama administration and won't be reunited with his Massachusetts husband in the U.S....

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Time For Justice To Do The Right Thing

Bill de Blasio | Posted 10.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Politics, Race, Civil Rights, Keith Bardwell, Jungle Fever, Spike Lee, Barack-Obama, Justice-Department-Civil-Rights-Division, Interracial Marriage, Justice Department, Public Advocate, New York News

Whether it's an interracial couple in Louisiana denied a marriage, or that blacks and Hispanics are 90% of the people frisked by NYC police, no place is immune to our history of racial struggle.

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Justice at Last? Guantanamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court for Release Into U.S.

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Uighurs, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bermuda, Uighurs Bermuda, U.S. Court of Appeals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Sabin Willett, Advocacy, Politics News

In briefs, the battle lines have been drawn. On the one hand is the government, endorsing Bush-era policies. And for the Uighurs, there is a Boston-based attorney and his team.

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Ken Salazar Questions The Legality Of Bush-Era Oil Leasing Policies

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Gale Norton, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Oil and Gas Leasing, Justice Department, Shell Oil, George W. Bush, Ken Salazar and Shell, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of Presi...

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Target of Political Prosecution By Bush-Era Justice Department Fights Back

Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Attorneys, Justice Department, Political Prosecution, Bush Justice Department, Georgia, Politics News

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post The prosecution had acted in a way that was "demonstrably honorable," and the defense's charges that ...

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John Suthers, Colorado Attorney General, Says New Federal Marijuana Policy Based On Faulty Assumptions

The Denver Post | Jordan Steffen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Pot, John Suthers, Justice Department, Medical Marijuana, Eric Holder, Colorado Attorney General, Colorado Medical Marijuana, Denver News

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers says that if an Obama administration plan not to arrest medical-marijuana users and suppliers is going to work,...

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Michele Brown: Christie Aide Who Got Loan May Have Helped Chris Christie Campaign For NJ Governor

New York Times | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's ...

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Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2835, Necessity, Medical Necessity, President Obama, Glaucoma, Marijuana, Barney Frank, Dea, Doj, Raid, Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative, Medical, Medical Marijuana, Obama, War on Drugs, Injustice, Drug, Eric Holder, California, Drug Enforcement Agency, Gonzales v Raich, Federal Prosecutor, Schedule I, Schedule, Ed Rosenthal, Marinol, Schedule II, Medical Use, US v Rosenthal, Drug War, Department of Justice, Justice, Federal Attorney, Oakland, Gag Rule, Federal, Attorney General, Necessity Defense, US v OCBC, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Holder, Controlled Substances Act, Ag, Cannabis, Chris Weigant, Ashcroft v Raich, hr2835, Drug Policy, Medical Necessity Defense, Raich, Ocbc, Rosenthal, Politics News

Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.

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