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...enemy combatant" in a Navy brig in South Carolina for 19 months and has been denied access to a lawyer or relatives. An appellate panel in New York ruled, 2 to 1, that the President has no authority to hold him as an enemy combatant indefinitely and without counsel. If he is not charged or declared a material witness, the court said, Padilla must be released within 30 days. The Administration has argued that its treatment of Padilla is necessary to exploit his intelligence value. But a senior law-enforcement official tells TIME that Padilla "was cooperative for maybe half...
...would never counsel anyone to break a federal law, but I do wonder whether there are any medical risks in buying drugs online. It depends, it seems, on what sort of drugs you buy. The FDA has started cracking down hard--as it should--on companies that sell narcotics like Percocet and OxyContin on the Web. And the agency has been conducting spot checks on pills shipped from overseas that have not been approved for use in the U.S. Some drugs sent from Canada also may not pass FDA muster, according to Mary Wiktorowicz of York University's School...
Harvard Law School’s Prison Legal Assistance Program (PLAP) will continue to allow first- and second-year law students to serve as free legal counsel for prison inmates, despite previous criticism from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections...
...Everyone at Berkeley is justifiably pleased that, after years of hard work with outreach and recruitment, the presence of under-represented minority students had recovered to earlier levels,” wrote Edley, who as special counsel to President Clinton helped fashion that administration’s “mend it, don’t end it” approach to affirmative action...
Even while foreign advisers give counsel to Iraqi jurists on the workings of war crimes proceedings, it will be Iraqis who run all of the day-to-day operations of the tribunal—from the prosecution to the defense to the judges themselves...