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...concern they have is with the lack of qualified local providers,” says Noah E. Lewis, staff attorney for the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School. “Which, of course, is the result of insurance exclusions in the first place...
...picture in my book. I told him that that wasn't going to happen either. Then he said, "What if I decide to sue you?" I said, "Well, if you sue me, you're going to have to borrow $25,000 from me to hire an attorney. And I'm not going to loan it to you." So that pretty much nipped that in the bud. That's a normal conversation day with my father...
...confessed 9/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. At stake are not just civilian court trials for the man known as KSM and his co-conspirators, but also the legal fate of all terrorism suspects, the future of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and the credibility of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. But as talks continue, Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the Administration are wondering just what Graham can deliver...
...plan," Najibullah Zazi said in a Brooklyn federal courtroom on Feb. 22, "was to conduct [a] martyrdom operation on subway lines in Manhattan." That scheme, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, represented "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since Sept. 11, 2001." Zazi, who was arrested last September, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to al-Qaeda. The 25-year-old Afghan-born U.S. permanent resident--he attended high school in New York City--traveled to Pakistan...
...very unusual for people from Western countries to be granted asylum in the U.S.," says David Piver, an immigration attorney with offices in a Philadelphia suburb and Flagstaff, Ariz. In 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, only five Germans received asylum in the U.S. (The Justice Department declined to comment on specific cases.) Piver, who is not involved in the Romeike case, predicted the U.S. government would appeal the decision "so as not to offend a close ally." (See the top 10 news stories...