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Mike Brownstein's Super Screening Blog
March 25, 2013 - Hackers could be fair game for deadly force, cyberwar experts say Deadly force against organized hackers could be justified under international law, according to a documentÃ'Â released Thursday by a panel of legal and cyber warfare experts. Use of lethal force on those behind a cyberattack on a nation would be legal if the virtual attack meets criteria similar to those currently accepted for real-world warfare, said Michael N. Schmitt, chairman of the International Law Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Schmitt is the editor of the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, a 300-page book put together by a score of experts at the request of NATO an...
AZ Study Finds Serious Lapses In Criminal Background Check System
March 23, 2013 - A new state report shows lapses and gaps in the criminal background check system could put public safety at risk. The Arizona Criminal Justice...
How To Spot A Resume Fraud, Fake CV or Biography Lies
March 21, 2013 - There are certain things that you see in a resume, CV or biography that immediately raise some warning signs. Last week, while everyone was &ld...
California Proposal Would Charge $10 To Search Court Records
March 20, 2013 - In a move that is raising concern about limiting access to public documents, California courts could charge $10 for each record search under a prop...
Predicting and Preventing Wrongful Convictions
March 17, 2013 - Why are innocent people wrongfully convicted in certain cases yet acquitted in others? Could policy interventions prevent future erroneous convicti...
Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
March 13, 2013 - Just Plain Dumb A drug defendant stunned an Ohio court by asking if he could have one more joint while haggling over the period during which he...
Most Murder Victims In Big Cities Have Criminal Records
March 07, 2013 - A review of murder statistics across America shows that in many large cities, up to 90 percent of the victims have criminal records. WND previo...
Cultural Differences Can Affect Crime And Justice
March 02, 2013 - When the parents of a Chinese national accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her Iowa City apartment flew to town in April to persuade the vict...
Arizona Raising Court Fees
March 01, 2013 - Fee changes are coming to many Arizona courts. Effective March 18, 2013 a series of fee increases are taking place for the AZ Superior Courts and J...
Target Targeted
March 01, 2013 - The NAACP and TakeAction Minnesota accused Target Corp. of unfair hiring practices in 10 formal complaints filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opp...
Government Admits To Flaws In Record System
March 01, 2013 - New York State officials are looking into errors on the criminal history reports of people who had been charged in Cambridge Town Court, where it a...
UK Criminal Record Searches: Proportionality Restored
February 03, 2013 - It is probably a bit premature to use the term "landmark ruling" to describe the court of appeal's judgment on the scope of the crimi...
Criminal Record Checks System Breaches Human Rights, UK Court Rules
February 03, 2013 - The home secretary, Theresa May, is facing urgent pressure to overhaul the criminal records system after an appeal court ruled that the way it oper...
NC Jailors Abuse Hot Sauce
January 15, 2013 - The NC State Bureau of Investigation has initiated a formal investigation into the Sampson County prison accused of mistreating prisoners with hot...
Package Wars - UPS Vs.FedEx
January 15, 2013 - A UPS employee is facing theft charges in Houston, Texas, after allegedly stealing an Apple iPad Mini that a Fedex delivery person had left at a ho...
One More Reason To Change Your Way Of Doing Business
January 15, 2013 - The Ohio Department of Health has proposed new administrative rules that will significantly impact the obligations of a home health agency (“...
Like It Or Not: How Social Media Can Lead To Litigation
January 08, 2013 - by John G. Browning About two-thirds of the adult population of the United States has a presence on a social networking platform. Over 900 mill...
Lawsuit Abuse Becoming Major Issue For Most Americans
January 01, 2013 - Nearly nine out of ten Americans think lawsuit abuse is a problem. The other 10 percent are suing them. (Little joke, there.) According to...
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