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Goldman Sachs wins even when muzzled by the feds
Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...Tags: Trials, Insurance, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Mary Jo White, Ben Bernanke
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Did that really happen? In America?
My periodic "Did You Know" columns tend to raise the blood pressure of more conservative readers who are embarrassed/angry/frustrated by the increasingly aggressive counter-cultural policies of the hard left and their allies in Hollywood, on campus, and...
Tags: Britney Spears, Minority Groups, Al-Qaeda, Judges, MoveOn
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The fiasco of Military tribunals
WASHINGTON -- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev won't be sent before a military tribunal for a technical reason: As a U.S. citizen, he isn't eligible. But that technicality stopped us from addressing a more important consideration:...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Court Preliminary, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Justice, Trials
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Ex-Miramar cop drew paid leave while losing Caravella lawsuit
While George Pierson was attending — and losing — a civil trial for framing a mentally challenged teen, the former Miramar police detective was drawing a full paycheck from his current government employer, Citrus County. Pierson, 63, a code...Tags: Politics, Pension and Welfare, Justice System, Interior Policy, Trials
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'Central Park Five,' graphically told
WASHINGTON -- From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from...
Tags: AIDS, Justice System, New York City, Central Park, PBS (tv network)
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Failed Justice Argues Against Death Penalty
From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from Mathew Brady's 1862...Tags: AIDS, Justice System, Punishment, New York City, Central Park
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A federal judge takes on 'copyright trolls'
There are trolls who live under bridges in fantasy novels. Then there are "copyright trolls." The latter have always occupied one of the most squalid corners of the legal system. They're people or firms that acquire copyrights to movies, music or...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Recording Industry Association of America, Trials, Litigation and Regulation, Judges
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'Gideon's' promise still unfulfilled
"Make me wanna holler, way they do my life." -- Marvin Gaye, "Inner City Blues" Karen Houppert has written a book of nightmares. Houppert, a veteran reporter for, among others, The Washington Post and The New York Times, is the author of "Chasing...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Prisons
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Lake County shows the way toward justice
I looked into buying a laurel wreath for Lake County's new state's attorney, Mike Nerheim — Amazon offers a broad variety of the honorary headdress — but decided not to place the order just yet. Nerheim, as Dan Hinkel's front-page story in...
Tags: Assault, Sex Crimes, Justice System, Criminals, Judges
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In Leopold case, judge draws bright line in the fog
Those who criticize the John Leopold case — that it was "too much squeeze for too little juice," a waste of taxpayer money — should read the 40-page memorandum by Dennis M. Sweeney, the judge who presided over the Anne Arundel County...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Bribery, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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DUI verdict supports individual responsibility
The case of a lawsuit over the gruesome deaths of two motorcyclists in Easton was trickier than it appeared at first glance. On Tuesday, a Northampton County jury determined that a golf club had no responsibility, was not even 1 percent to blame, for...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Trials, Sports, Bars and Clubs, Litigation
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Ray Lewis and 'the life we live with after that'
"Some mistakes we never stop paying for." — Roy Hobbs, played by Robert Redford, in "The Natural," the 1984 Barry Levinson film based on the Bernard Malamud novel. The announcement of Ray Lewis' retirement and his team's breathtaking run to...
Tags: Ray Lewis, Shannon Sharpe, Trials, Super Bowl, Witnesses
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Jan 30, 2013
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May 30, 2013
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Jan 14, 2013
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