Dockets

• Draper v. United States Of America

  3:2013cv01368
  Filed in Pennsylvania Middle District Court
  Type of Suit: Civil Rights
  Plaintiff: Cornelius K Draper. Defendant: United States Of America.
  Judge: Malachy E Mannion
  Cause Of Action: Federal Question: Other Civil Rights
  (May 19, 2013)

• McIntosh v. State of Mississippi et al

  1:2013cv00100
  Filed in Mississippi Northern District Court
  Type of Suit: General
  Petitioner: Clinton A. McIntosh. Respondent: State of Mississippi and Chickasaw County.
  Judge: Michael P. Mills
  Cause Of Action: Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)
  (May 19, 2013)

• Datta v. Napolitano et al

  3:2013cv01199
  Filed in California Southern District Court
  Type of Suit: General
  Petitioner: Rebati Datta. Respondent: Janet Napolitano, Eric Holder, Robin Baker and John William.
  Judge: Marilyn L. Huff
  Cause Of Action: Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (federal)
  (May 19, 2013)

• Plaintiff v. Defendant

  2:2013cv14207
  Filed in Florida Southern District Court
  Type of Suit: Mandamus and Other
  Plaintiff v. Defendant
  Judge: Donald L. Graham
  Cause Of Action: Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)
  (May 19, 2013)

• Posada v. State of Texas et al

  1:2013cv00407
  Filed in Texas Western District Court
  Type of Suit: Civil Rights
  Defendant: Mike Lynch and State of Texa. Plaintiff: Leon Posada.
  Judge: Sam Sparks
  Cause Of Action: Prisoner Civil Rights
  (May 19, 2013)

Legislation

• Bill Introduced: S.Res.724 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on the horrific ...

  A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on the horrific terrorist attacks and siege in Mumbai, India, beginning on November 26, 2008, and concluding on November 29, 2008.
  (December 7, 2008)

• Bill Introduced: S.Res.707 An original resolution authorizing the President of the Senate to ...

  An original resolution authorizing the President of the Senate to certify the facts of the failure of Joshua Bolten, as the Custodian of Records at the White House, to appear before the Committee on the Judiciary and produce documents as required by Committee subpoena.
  (November 17, 2008)

• Bill Introduced: S.Res.708 An original resolution authorizing the President of the Senate to ...

  An original resolution authorizing the President of the Senate to certify the facts of the failure of Karl Rove to appear and testify before the Committee on the Judiciary and to produce documents as required by Committee subpoena.
  (November 17, 2008)

• Bill Introduced: S.3689 Economic Recovery Act of 2008

  A bill making supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investment, and economic and energy assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
  (November 15, 2008)

• Bill Enacted: H.R.2095 Federal Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2007

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to prevent railroad fatalities, injuries, and hazardous materials releases, to authorize the Federal Railroad Safety Administration, and for other purposes.
  October 15, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-432.
  (October 14, 2008)

Regulations

• Proposed Rule - Preliminary Plan for Retrospective Review Under E.O. 13563

  Department of Justice
  Proposed Rule
  Preliminary Plan for Retrospective Review Under E.O. 13563
  ,
  34003 [2011-14089]
  Proposed Rules Federal Register Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 112 / Friday, June 10, 2011 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 2 CFR Chapter XXVII 5 CFR Chapter XXVIII 8 CFR Chapter V 21 CFR Chapter II 27 CFR Chapter II 28 CFR Chapters I, III, V, and VI 31 CFR Chapter IX 40 CFR Chapter IV 41 CFR Chapter 128 45 CFR Chapter V 48 CFR Chapter 28 [FDMS Docket No. DOJ-LA-2011-0016] Preliminary Plan for Retrospective Review Under E.O. 13563 AGENCY: Department of Justice. ACTION: Request for... [read document]
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  (June 9, 2011)

• Rule - Chemical Mixtures Containing Listed Forms of Phosphorus and Change in Application Process

  Drug Enforcement Administration
  Rule
  Chemical Mixtures Containing Listed Forms of Phosphorus and Change in Application Process
  ,
  31824-31831 [2011-13686]
  DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration 21 CFR Part 1310 [Docket No. DEA-228F] RIN 1117-AA66 Chemical Mixtures Containing Listed Forms of Phosphorus and Change in Application Process AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This rulemaking finalizes a June 25, 2010, notice of proposed rulemaking in which DEA proposed regulations which establish those chemical mixtures containing red phosphorus or hypophosphorous acid and... [read document]
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  (June 1, 2011)

• Rule - Procedures Governing Administrative Review of a United States Trustees Decision to Deny ...

  Department of Justice
  Rule
  Procedures Governing Administrative Review of a United States Trustees Decision to Deny a Chapter 12 or Chapter 13 Standing Trustees Claim of Actual, Necessary Expenses
  ,
  31225-31230 [2011-12187]
  DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 28 CFR Part 58 [Docket No.: EOUST 103] RIN 1105-AB16 Procedures Governing Administrative Review of a United States Trustee's Decision To Deny a Chapter 12 or Chapter 13 Standing Trustee's Claim of Actual, Necessary Expenses AGENCY: Executive Office for United States Trustees (``EOUST''), Justice. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This final rule (``rule'') sets forth the procedures for a chapter 12 or chapter 13 standing trustee (``trustee'') to obtain administrative review of... [read document]
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  (May 30, 2011)

• Proposed Rule - Assumption of Concurrent Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Certain Areas of ...

  Department of Justice
  Proposed Rule
  Assumption of Concurrent Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Certain Areas of Indian Country
  ,
  29675-29680 [2011-12541]
  DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 28 CFR Part 50 [Docket No. OAG 142; AG Order No. 3279-2011] RIN 1105-AB38 Assumption of Concurrent Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Certain Areas of Indian Country AGENCY: Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice. ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: This rule proposes to establish the procedures for an Indian tribe whose Indian country is subject to State criminal jurisdiction under Public Law 280 (18 U.S.C. 1162(a)) to request that the United States accept... [read document]
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  (May 22, 2011)

• Proposed Rule - Consolidation of Seizure and Forfeiture Regulations

  Drug Enforcement Administration
  Proposed Rule
  Consolidation of Seizure and Forfeiture Regulations
  ,
  26660-26678 [2011-9826]
  DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration 21 CFR Part 1316 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 28 CFR Parts 8 and 9 [Docket No. OAG 127; AG Order No. 3263-2011] RIN 1105-AA74 Consolidation of Seizure and Forfeiture Regulations AGENCY: Department of Justice. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (the Department) proposes to revise, consolidate, and update its seizure and forfeiture regulations, to conform those regulations to the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform... [read document]
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  (May 8, 2011)

Articles

• Especialidades Del Proceso Penal Por Prevaricación Judicial (Specialties of Criminal ...

  InDret, Vol. 1, 2013 Maria Dolores Fernández Fustes University of Vigo Date Posted: May 09, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 2 downloads Thrice Punished: Battered Women, Criminal Law and Disinheritance Elizabeth Sheehy & Barbara Hamilton, “Thrice Punished: Battered Women, Criminal Law and Disinheritance” (2004) 8 Southern Cross University Law Review 96. , Barbara Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Sheehy Queensland University of Technology and University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law (Common Law) Date Posted: May 09, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads The D.C. Circuit's EPIC Failure in Electronic Privacy Information Center v. United States Department of Homeland Security R. Gregory Israelsen Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Last Revised: May 20, 2013
  (May 19, 2013)

• Preclusion of Sociological Policing

  Stephen Kruger Independent Date Posted: April 18, 2013 Last Revised: May 17, 2013
  (May 16, 2013)

• Deconstructing the Pipeline: Evaluating School-to-Prison Pipeline Equal Protection Cases ...

  Chauncee D. Smith Fordham University School of Law Date Posted: May 20, 2013 Working Paper Series 2 downloads The Challenge of the Bad Man McGill Law Journal, Vol. 58, No. 2, 451 Michael Plaxton University of Saskatchewan - College of Law Date Posted: May 20, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Deporting the Citizens within the European Union: A Counter-Intuitive Trend Columbia Journal of European Law, Forthcoming Dimitry Kochenov and Benedikt Pirker University of Groningen - Faculty of Law and UMich Center for International and Comparative Law Date Posted: May 19, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 9 downloads Monitoring the Plea Process Duquesne University Law Review, 2013, Forthcoming Susan R. Klein University of Texas School of Law Date Posted: May 18, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads The Practical Application of Probability in Court: Advancing Science or Timeless Art? Ennis McBride Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law Date Posted: May 17, 2013 Working Paper Series 18 downloads A Janus Look at International Criminal Justice Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, Vol. 11, 2013 Diane Marie Amann University of Georgia School of Law Date Posted: May 17, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 10 downloads The U.K. Bribery Act: A Benchmark for Anticorruption Reform in the U.S. Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 23, 2014 (Forthcoming) Dominic Saglibene Brooklyn Law School Date Posted: May 17, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 8 downloads The Significance of Transferred Intent Criminal Law and Philosophy, vol. 7, pp. 321-50 (2013) Peter K. Westen University of Michigan Law School Date Posted: May 17, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 12 downloads Law's Limits: Regulating Statutory Rape Law Wisconsin Law Review, 2013, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper 13-23 Michele Goodwin University of Minnesota Law School Date Posted: May 16, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Evolutionary Backgrounds of the Sex Offense: A Dutch Case Study Ethiek en Maatschappij, November 2012, Volume 14, No. 3, pp. 1-17; English Version, d.d. 2013, May 8 Hendrik Gommer and Erik-Jan Broers Open University of the Netherlands and Tilburg University - Department of Jurisprudence and Legal History Date Posted: May 16, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 5 downloads Rectifying Wrongful Convictions: May a Lawyer Reveal Her Client’s Confidences to Rectify the Wrongful Conviction of Another? Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2011, Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper James E. Moliterno Washington and Lee University - School of Law Date Posted: May 14, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 2 downloads Provisional Arrest and Incarceration in the International Criminal Tribunals Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Vol. 11, p. 303, 2013, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-17 Melinda Taylor and Charles C. Jalloh International Criminal Court and University of Pittsburgh - School of Law Date Posted: May 14, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Criminal Discovery and Omnibus Procedure in a Federal Court: A Defense View Southern California Law Review, Vol. 49, pp. 514-578, 1976 Robert A. Weninger Texas Tech University School of Law Date Posted: May 14, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Factors Affecting the Prosecution of Rape: A Case Study of Travis County, Texas Virginia Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 357-397, 1978 Robert A. Weninger Texas Tech University School of Law Date Posted: May 14, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads The Protected Innocence Initiative: Building Protective State Law Regimes for America’s Sex-Trafficked Children Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 44, 2013 Tessa L. Dysart Regent University School of Law Date Posted: May 14, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 44 downloads Unjustified Sentence Disparity: A Case Study of the Levelling Effect of Parole 36 Syracuse Law Review 715, 1985 Robert A. Weninger Texas Tech University School of Law Date Posted: May 14, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads The Supreme Court and the Alien Tort Statute: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. American Journal of International Law, Vol. 107, 2013, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 13-26 Ingrid B. Wuerth Vanderbilt University - Law School Date Posted: May 14, 2013 Last Revised: May 16, 2013
  (May 15, 2013)

• The 'Normal' Successes and Failures of Feminism and the Criminal Law

  Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 75, pp. 951-978, 2000, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-037 Victoria F. Nourse Georgetown University Law Center Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 2 downloads Two Objections to Yaffe on the Criminalization of Attempts Criminal Law and Philosophy, Forthcoming Alex F. Sarch Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Working Paper Series 18 downloads Fragmenting the Community: Immigration Enforcement and the Unintended Consequences of Local Police Non-Cooperation Policies St. John's Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 1, 2014, New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 13-13 Natashia Tidwell New England Law Boston Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 5 downloads Battered Women and Mandatory Minimum Sentences “Battered Women and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing” (2001), 39 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 529-554 , Elizabeth A. Sheehy University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law (Common Law) Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 2 downloads Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Law and Policy “Introduction: Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Law and Policy” (2001), 39 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, pp. 261-272, Elizabeth A. Sheehy University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law (Common Law) Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 2 downloads Gideon's Muted Trumpet Maryland Law Review, Vol. 58, pp. 1417-1432, 1999, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-038 Victoria F. Nourse Georgetown University Law Center Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Right of Self Defence in Pakistan: A Case Study of Pakistan in Light of Judgments of Pakistani Courts Ashraf Ali Khan Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Date Posted: May 08, 2013 Working Paper Series 3 downloads Victimless Conduct and the Volenti Maxim: How Consent Works Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2013, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3038 Michelle Madden Dempsey Villanova University School of Law Date Posted: May 07, 2013 Last Revised: May 11, 2013
  (May 10, 2013)

• Understanding Corporate Compliance and Wrongdoing in Interdisciplinary Context

  Managerial and Decision Economics, Forthcoming D. Daniel Sokol University of Florida - Levin College of Law Date Posted: May 06, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 28 downloads Defining Sex Trafficking in International and Domestic Law: Mind the Gaps Emory International Law Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2012, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3036 Michelle Madden Dempsey , Carolyn Hoyle and Mary Bosworth Villanova University School of Law , University of Oxford - Centre for Criminological Research and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law Date Posted: May 06, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 18 downloads Crime, Police Corruption and Development: Evidence from Victimization Data Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) 2009 working paper n° 772, Jens Christopher Andvig and Joseph Attila Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt and EQUIPPE, Université Nord de France, Université d'Artois Date Posted: May 06, 2013 Working Paper Series 3 downloads Protecting Prisoners During Custodial Interrogations: The Road Forward After Howes v. Fields Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice, Vol. 33, No. 1, p. 217, 2013 Michelle Parilo Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice Date Posted: May 05, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 7 downloads The Case for Full Restitution for Child Pornography Victims George Washington Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper Paul G. Cassell , James Marsh and Jeremy M. Christiansen University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law , Marsh Law Firm PLLC and University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law Date Posted: May 04, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 58 downloads Capital Prejudice University of Memphis Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 135, 2013 J. Richard Broughton University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Date Posted: May 03, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 36 downloads In Need of a Fix: Reforming Criminal Law in Light of a Contemporary Understanding of Drug Addiction UCLA Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, 2013 Patrick E. Murray University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law Date Posted: May 03, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Book Review of Michael J. Zimmerman's The Immorality of Punishment Law and Philosophy, Vol. 32, p. 333, 2013, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3033 Michelle Madden Dempsey Villanova University School of Law Date Posted: May 03, 2013 Last Revised: May 11, 2013
  (May 10, 2013)

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