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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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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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Feds Launch Anti-Fraud Crackdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Fraud, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Business News

The Obama administration launched a renewed push Tuesday to prosecute financial crimes and stop financial fraud. Updating a seven-year-old, post-Enro...

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Dear FCC, Please Don't Let Hollywood Break My TV

Gary Shapiro | Posted 11.12.2009 | Technology

Read More: Arlen Specter, Fcc, Mpaa, Senate Judiciary Committee, Gary Shapiro, Selective Output Control, Congress, Piracy, Julius Genachowski, Dan Glickman, Federal Communications Commission, Analog Hole, Department of Justice, Hdtv, Cea, Consumer Electronics Association, Motion Picture Association of America, Technology News

The MPAA is back -- this time, before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- asking permission to disable lawfully purchased HDTV-capable TVs.

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Justice Department Takes On Fraudster Defense Contractor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Fraud, Contractor Abuse, Department of Justice, Acorn, Defense Contractors, Media News

Your "This Day In Government Contractor Abuses" comes via Spencer Ackerman, who flags this release from the U.S. Department of Justice: The United St...

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Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Alzheimer's Disease, Unapproved Uses, Doj, Drug Marketers, Criminal Lawsuit, Eli Lilly, Regulation, Fda, The Fed, Lawsuit, Pharma, Nimh, Jama, Department of Justice, Kickbacks, Federal Reserve, Fed, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Warner Lambert, Marketing, Warner-Lambert, Neurontin, Thalidomide, Depression, Bankruptcy, Off-Label Promotion, Zyprexa, Bextra, Suicide, Lilly Pfizer, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Felonies, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Bristol Myers Squibb, Morning Sickness, Drug Regulation, Profits, Health, Drug Sales, Corporate Greed, Atom Strategic Consulting, Birth Defects, Zyvox, Business News

Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...

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Bush DOJ Official Agrees "Torture Memo" Lawyers Should Be Investigated

Nan Aron | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tortured Law, Department of Justice, Constitution, Eric Holder Attorney General, Attorney General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

A change in leadership does not eliminate the need to examine our system and learn from our history, even when -- especially when -- our Department of Justice was corrupted to the point of sanctioning torture.

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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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Colorado Marijuana Busts: Taxpayer Dollars Wasted When Cops Bust Legal Growers

Glenwood Springs Post Independent | Robert Allen | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: Medical Marijuana, Dea, Summit County, Summit County Drug Task Force, Colorado, Colorado Department of Health, Department of Justice, Breckenridge, Eric Holder, Denver News

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado -- Sheriff's deputies recently searched a Summit County home where nearly 200 marijuana plants are under cultivation, but the ...

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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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The Ring of Truth

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Main Justice, Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff, Col. Oliver North, Kevin Ring, George W. Bush, David Safavian, Department of Justice, Federal Prosecutors, Honest-Services Fraud, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Brendan Sullivan, Judge Antonin Scalia, Judge Dennis Jacobs, Suborning Perjury, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News

A judge in D.C. reluctantly declared a mistrial for Kevin Ring, one of Abramoff's trusted lieutenants. It may be a sign that the reign of honest-services-fraud terror by federal prosecutors is ending.

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Sheriff Arpaio: "I Could Get Elected On Pink Underwear"

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 287(G), Joe-Arpaio, Politics News

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a defiant, racial-profiling desperado with renewed authority to abuse his inmates. The scary part? The voting public approves.

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DoJ Admits Telephone Companies' Role in Secret Spying

Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the nation's telecom companies are an arm of the government -- at least when it co...

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One-Third Of Obama's U.S. Attorneys Are Bush Holdovers

Main Justice | Andrew Ramonas | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama u.s. Attorneys, Department of Justice, Obama Bush-Era Appointments, Doj, Obama u.s. Prosecutors, President Obama, Bush Appointed Attorneys, Obama Bush-Era Attorneys, u.s. Attorneys Bush Administration, Obama Department of Justice, Politics News

More than eight months after President Barack Obama took office, one third of the country's U.S. Attorney offices are still run by prosecutors appoint...

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We Are All Polanski's Victims, and We All Deserve Justice

Jaclyn Friedman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rape, Crime, Washington Post, Department of Justice, Justice, Batman, Roman Polanski, Whoopi Goldberg, Gender, Entertainment News

In the confused minds of many, Polanski is a real-life Batman, a flawed anti-hero living outside the law because that's the only way he can truly overcome his tortured history.

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Oil Shale Regulations: Judge Grants More Time To Resolve Controversial Bush-Era Rules

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil Shale, Gale Norton, Mesa County, Colorado, Department of Justice, Oil Drilling, Ken Salazar, Shell Oil, Denver News

A Colorado U.S. District Court judge has granted an extension until Nov. 16 for federal government attorneys trying to reach a settlement with environ...

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Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressives, Al Franken, Chief of Staff, Reform, Alan Grayson, Paul Kirk, Aid of the Party, Emanuel, Midotw, Glenn Greenwald, Nancy Pelosi, Department of Justice, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Peter Paul and Mary, Reid, Public Option, Democrat, House Progressives, Congress, Mary Travers, Democrats, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Acorn, Progressive, Constitution, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Party, Health, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Republicans, Senate, Healthcare, President Obama, David Kris, Sherrod Brown, Obama, Democratic, Democratic Party, Friday Talking Points, Fourth Amendment, Republican, Paul Wellstone, Pelosi, Defense Contractor, Co-Op, Baucus, Typewriter, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Rahm, Representative Grayson, Trigger, Time for All Good Men, House, Franken, Rahmbo, Surreal, Fraud, Chris Weigant, Max Baucus, Kris, Politics News

The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.

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The Torture Report

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Glenn Greenwald, Freedom of Information Act, Department of Justice, President Bush, Maj. David Frakt, Marcy Wheeler, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Matthew Alexander, Politics News

Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.

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Obama To Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets

washingtonpost.com | Carrie Johnson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, State Secrets Privilege, National Security, State Secrets, Obama State Secrets, Department of Justice, Holder Bush State Secrets, Obama National Security, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Rendition, Bush State Secrets, Politics News

The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state se...

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New Orleans Jail Conditions Violate Inmates' Rights: Department Of Justice Report

AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Justice Department Report New Orleans Prisons, New Orleans Jail, Orleans Parish Prison Conditions, New Orleans Katrina, New Orleans Prison Conditions, Department of Justice, Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish Prison, Prison Inmates' Rights, Politics News

NEW ORLEANS — Violent guards, understaffing and unsanitary conditions violate the constitutional rights of inmates at a New Orleans jail heavily...

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Lapses Are the Norm, Not the Exception When It Comes to Our Justice System

Amy Bach | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exoneration, Dna, Edward Flynn, Criminal Justice System, Walter Ellis, Department of Justice, Evidence, Dna Evidence, Troy Davis, John Dipko, Politics News

Law enforcement agencies work independently of each other, and don't coordinate well as a rule. When problems do arise, they are quick to renounce responsibility. Usually, they blame each other.

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CIA Wants DOJ To Investigate Assassinations Leak

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Blackwater, Department of Justice, Valerie Plame, Leon Panetta, Senate Intelligence Committee, Kit Bond, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...

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Gonzales Backtracks On Support For CIA Torture Investigation

Washington Times | Ben Conery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Department of Justice, Bush Administration, Terror Suspects, Alberto Gonzales, CIA Investigation, Politics News

Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous assertion that it was "legitimate to question and examine" charges of CIA ...

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Bush Damage To DOJ's Civil Rights Division Will Take Years To Fix

The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fema, CIA Scandal, Bush Administration, Department of Justice, Bradley Schlozman, Eric Holder, Civil Rights, Investigation, Politics News

Attorney General Eric Holder committed this week to repairing the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, one of the most scandal-plagued institut...

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