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...Senate this week, significantly expand due process rights beyond the law Bush muscled through Congress in 2006. Statements obtained by "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" would be prohibited. Hearsay evidence would be harder to introduce in a commission proceeding. Defendants would have a greater ability to select their own counsel. And Administration lobbyists successfully fought for even broader protections in the bill that was approved by House-Senate conferees and passed by the full House...
...just starting to arrive in some states. Vaccination can reduce the risk of getting influenza 70% to 80% and is the most effective way to curb the pandemic. "It is within the purview of health authorities that we engage in certain infection-control activities," says Susan Waltman, general counsel of the Greater New York Hospital Association, "and immunization of health-care workers is certainly among those activities...
...Sorensen—who served as special counsel, adviser, and speech writer to John F. Kennedy ’40—and Ken Duberstein—the White House chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan—each provided advice to the current administration about the best strategies for governing effectively...
...That might happen on television but that’s not real life,” said Dershowitz, who plans to appeal the verdict, providing pro bono counsel after Borukhova’s family pleaded with him to take the case...
...whistle on the Swiss banks before - and with this mind-set, the government is guaranteeing that nobody will come forward again and disclose information about tax fraud on this scale," says Dean Zerbe, a tax attorney representing Birkenfeld in his dealings with the IRS. Zerbe also served as tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee; in 2006 it revised the tax code to include whistle-blower protections...