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Four years after derogatory material was posted about them in an online law school discussion forum, two former Yale Law students have reached a settlement in their case against about two dozen anonymous online posters...
...group's operations. "Anyone who messes with [us] is going to die," Mariano is quoted as saying. "I am not going to [prison]." Indeed, last summer, La Familia launched a wave of attacks on federal police bases, using grenades and other heavy weapons, killing 15 officers. A dozen corpses were dumped on a mountain highway...
...After General Gration told the Washington Post that "cookies" and "gold stars" might be useful in forcing Khartoum to cooperate, a few dozen activists from the group Students Against Genocide sarcastically delivered a large cardboard cutout gold star and smiley face to the front of the Sudan embassy in Washington...
...clear the Gitmo backlog of 221 cases as quickly as hoped. Once Obama signs the law, the Department of Defense will have 90 days to draft rules spelling out how the reformed panels would operate. With new evidentiary standards, government prosecutors will have to review their cases - about a dozen commission proceedings have begun - and determine, along with the judges and defense lawyers, whether any evidence was obtained by coercion or inadmissible hearsay. Previously denied access to prosecution witnesses would have to be provided. Defendants whose options had been limited to military attorneys in the past would have the right...
...like an easy solution last week in the health-care negotiations is now facing uphill battles in both chambers, which is why Democrats are relying on physicians' groups to throw the power of their lobby behind the bill. The AMA has run $200,000 worth of ads in a dozen states in the past week and has pledged to spend upwards of $1.8 million on more. Likewise the seniors' lobbying organization AARP, which strongly supports the legislation, has run about $2 million in ads in the past two weeks, mostly on this issue...