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- Children's Memory May Be More Reliable Than Adults' In Court Cases
  Posted by ivan from Science Daily
  The U.S. legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible, that some witnesses are more reliable than others. In tough cases with child witnesses, it assumes adult witnesses to be more reliable. But what if the legal system had it wrong?
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- The dangers of one-to-one emails
  Posted by SoxFirst
  With emails now being used as evidence in court cases, experts say it’s time for companies to abandon person-to-person emails for their own protection
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- Britain expels Russian diplomats over Litvinenko - Times Online
  Posted by theangryindian from Times Online
  Russia warned Britain tonight its decision to expel four Russian diplomats over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko would have "the most serious consequences". The Cold War-style expulsions - the first in a decade - were announced in an emergency Commons statement this afternoon by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary.
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- “Enemy Combatant” Designation Ruled Bogus
  Posted by ptristam from Pierre Tristam
  It’s a wonder it took that long — five years for a U.S. federal court finally to declare the designation of “enemy combatant,” at least when it’s slapped on lawful residents of the United States, null and void. If the government wants to hold terrorists in the United States, it must charge them with a crime—or release them, as it will have to do with Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
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- O'Reilly hosted judge who condemns "femifascists"
  Posted by newscloud from Media Matters
  On the January 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly glossed over objections to Missouri circuit judge Robert H. Dierker Jr.'s book, The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault (Crown Forum, Dec...
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- Gregoire wants public financing of Washington Court races
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  This is a terrific idea - great way to experiment with public finance: In the state budget she proposed Tuesday, Gregoire included a $4.4 million pilot program to make public financing available to Supreme Court and Court of Appeals candidates. Candidates would have to raise a qualifying amount on their own and agree to follow a clean campaign code
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- Case of the Dwindling Docket Mystifies the Supreme Court
  Posted by chuckt from New York Times
  A divided court, a divided nation, and no concensus as to why fewer cases get considered at the highest level.
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Gregoire wants public financing of Washington Court races

Could be a great step on the long road to get big money out of politics. Cheers to Gregoire for knowing how to move the ball downfield.

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