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...even as he promised to lobby legislators hard to begin an amendment process. But that process, in Iowa, is a lengthy one - and unlike in California, the constitution can't be amended by a simple vote of the people. Both houses of the legislature must approve it, and most legal experts agree that the process could be put before voters no sooner than 2012. (See TIME's video: "Iowa: Gay Marriage in the Heartland...
...Baiter said. “I absolutely am not going to bleed until the train hits me.”All the staff workers have been approaching the decision-making process of the past month and a half in light of their respective financial statuses, legal dependents, and work situations—and the sums of these factors are leading to different decisions.Otto F. Coontz—assistant to the resident dean in Adams House—said he feels secure enough about his job to risk turning down early retirement. Houses are not feeling as much pressure to downsize...
...says David Diaz-Jogeix, deputy director of Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia program. "The failure of the system to fully examine complaints is now leading more and more lawyers to dissuade clients from reporting abuse, with warnings that it will result in nothing and may even generate legal counter-attack." (See pictures of Pakistan's lawyers celebrating...
...Amnesty's report, "France: Police Above the Law," cites hard-to-obtain official statistics on abuse investigations culled from a variety of legal sources and studies. Those figures indicate charges of brutality are rarely substantiated or punished. It says that of 639 inquiries of police mistreatment in 2006, a mere eight cases resulted in the accused being dismissed from the force. In 2005 - when Amnesty first sounded the alarm about the problem - 16 out of 663 investigations led to the ouster of accused cops. By contrast, there's been an explosion in cases and convictions of "outrage," an offense based...
...have a legal mindset which has pluses and minuses. The advantage is that it enables one to properly formulate aims and helps with decision taking. The disadvantage is that often I speak and explain myself more precisely than is needed. And from this there arises the feeling that before you stands a dry man buttoned up to the neck." - when told he gives the impression of being closed off (Russian state television, translated by the Wall Street Journal...