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Note: I first wrote this post back in March when James Q. Wilson published an op-ed in several major American newspapers defending America's intense use of prisons. I decided not to publish it at the time, but today I see that Wilson.

Savannah personal injury attorney, Benjamin Eichholz, entered a plea in federal court yesterday to obstructing a Department of Labor (DOL) investigation by repeatedly transmitting false and misleading documents to the Department of Labor and by making false and misleading statements to investigators. Eichholz,.

Today’s Wall Street Journal Law Blog reveals that Dallas Mavericks owner, Landmark Theaters owner and Chairman of HDNet Mark Cuban has gone on the offensive against the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC made widely publicized charges against Mr. Cuban for insider.

An interesting collision of circumstances: California prison health care receiver J. Clark Kelso is saying he hopes to seize billions of dollars from the California general fund to pay for much needed improvements to the state prison system. The only hitch: the.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California filed a dismissal last week of its remaining charges against former San Francisco Giants slugger and outfielder, Barry Bonds, as reported by the Associated Press. Bonds was convicted in April on one count of.

The state of Nevada has thousands of rape kits that have not been tested. Collected for over thirty years, Kimberly Murga, Director of the Las Vegas police forensics lab says there are plans to test every one of these rape kits, especially.

Sporadic gun related violence has been the norm in Las Vegas in the past. But over the past 12 months, gun related shootings are becoming the norm. Almost every weekend there are people being shot in and around Las Vegas. At the.

Today the U.S. Supreme Court decided Davis v. Washington (Slip Opinion 05-5224) and Hammon v. Indiana (Case No. - 05-5705, which those of us that deal with any cases involving domestic violence have been anxiously awaiting for. You may recall what I.

A 31-year-old from Texas was recently sentenced to two terms of life in prison and three lesser sentences according to 11 Alive. While one might assume from the severity of the punishment that the man had committed serious and violent crimes, the.

Police arrested Las Vegas school bus driver accused of sexually assaulting school children on his bus route. Although the culprit was arrested end of May, it appears that he may have a long history of sexual abuse. Michael Ray Banco was held.