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Digital media law update: The U.S. has been in talks with the E.U., Japan, Canada and a number of other mostly developed nations since 2006 to develop the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Several further rounds of ACTA negotiations have been scheduled, including.

Catastrophes and Domestic Violence in Nevada From July 14 until the 23rd, a heat wave in Nevada killed 17 people. The temperature soared to 117 degrees and is the worst natural disaster in the state in modern history. While high temperatures aren't.

What do "alcohol inhalers" -- devices that allow individuals to inhale alcohol vapor, and thereby get drunk without experiencing any hangover -- have to do with the much-toutedincreasing strength of marijuana? Just this: that our society has been able to draw a.

The stage is being set for the Supreme Court to evaluate technology’s effect on the scope of the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate oneself. The government is seizing computers routinely now in investigations. But, the files on those computers are increasingly.

Medical examiners identified a 72-year-old man as the victim of an attack that took place last week in a west Las Vegas parking lot. As of Tuesday, the Clark County Coroner's Office has not yet ruled a cause and manner of death for.

Lin Michaels stayed clean from drugs for fourteen years; however that changed due to no fault of her own. Lin trusted her doctor when he prescribed her pain killers that turned out to be very addictive. Being the daughter of an alcoholic.

How can it be that after the state of New York decriminalized possession of personal use quantities of marijuana, New York City police still manage to rack up tens of thousands of marijuana arrests every year -- including 33,000 arrests just in.

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the Northern District of Illinois for defrauding LaSalle Bank and sentenced to 96 months in prison, ordered to forfeit $16,241,202 in money that he obtained from the fraud, and ordered to pay restitution in the.

The LA Times has a long article today that must surely warm the heart of the politicians and law enforcement officials who are pushing to dismantle Prop. 36. Prop. 36, of course, is the voter-approved California initiative that allows first- and second-time.

The interpretation of fairly arcane drug jargon could provide a sufficient basis to determine the quantity of drugs an individual was conspiring to distribute, a Ninth Circuit panel held Wednesday in United States v. Rosales , No. 05-30260. The drug traffickers in this.