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Ind. woman sentenced to die at 16 to be released
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana woman whose death sentence for a killing when she was 15 years old helped change the way juveniles are treated by courts across the country is being released from prison. Forty-three-year-old Paula Cooper is...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Punishment
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Lake schools should teach about Sheriff Willis McCall and book 'Devil in the Grove'
I'd met the man, but stories about the late Sheriff Willis McCall were just that: stories. His personal appearance, when he came into the Sentinel office in the 1980s, only fed the fiction of the quintessential Southern sheriff determined to keep both...
Tags: Justice and Rights, NAACP, Authors, Crime, Law and Justice, The New York Times
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Analysis: Why bankrupt W.R. Grace is thriving
ReutersCOLUMBIA, Md./NEW YORK (Reuters) - A company stuck in bankruptcy for 12 years may not seem like much of a catch, but investors have fallen in love with U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer W.R. Grace & Co and its surging sales to the energy sector. One...Tags: Trials, Environmental Issues, Finance, W.R. Grace & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Can the Obama administration be trusted?
— Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the U.S. Postal Service may record "mail cover," i.e., what's written on the outside of an envelope — the addresses of sender and receiver. The National Security...
Tags: Software Industry, U.S. Postal Service, The Washington Post, National Government, Edward Snowden
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Researchers hail Supreme Court decision on gene patent
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that Myriad Genetics cannot patent two genes linked to ovarian and breast cancer came as welcome relief to researchers whose work on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes had been thwarted by legal challenges from the company. But...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Health and Medical Professionals, Career and Workplace, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Drugs and Medicines
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FACTBOX-U.S. Supreme Court says human genes cannot be patented
ReutersJune 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, but said patents on synthetically produced genetic material are valid. The issue has gained importance for patients in recent years as scientists make...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Biology, Science and Technology, Breast Cancer
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After jail scandal, spotlight on growing role of women officers
The 19-year-old felt sick to her stomach when she stepped into the Baltimore prison once nicknamed "Supermax" for her first day of work as a corrections officer. The place was dark and dingy, and she had never been around so many men before. When...
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Rape, Justice and Rights, Career and Workplace, Towson
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Human gene patenting is a thing most of us aren't ready for
In the course of our country's history, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has bestowed coveted protection on many strange and wondrous inventions: the three-legged pantyhose (in case one leg runs), the sealed, circular peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich,...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Science, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pushes through Obama's Medicaid expansion
TUCSON — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer won a battle with state lawmakers this week, defying most other conservatives in her party to get a key component of President Obama’s Medicaid expansion through the Legislature. The Arizona Senate voted...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Parties and Movements, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Barack Obama
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Courts, not sheriffs, interpret the Constitution
It is interesting to see Second Amendment enthusiasts like letter writer John Armstrong embracing a few county sheriffs' announced refusal to endorse Maryland's new gun law based on its unconstitutionality ("Sheriff's refusal to enforce gun law is victory...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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BRCA gene decision hailed
Jewish breast cancer survivors were among the people celebrating a recent United States Supreme Court decision. The high court ruled unanimously that patents cannot be held on naturally occurring human genes. The decision came in a case in which...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, University of Miami, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Genetics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Review: "Roberts Court" by Marcia Coyle
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The role of...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, U.S. Congress, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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