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The New York Times has an article on the extensive ties between top members of the Saudi ruling family and terrorist groups, as new evidence is revealed by the families of 9/11 victims — evidence that is being ignored and suppressed by the US government: Documents Back Saudi Link to ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Jihad, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Law, 9/11
The Onion’s distinguished panel of experts examines the loopholes in current laws pertaining to manslaughter... [Video]
On Friday the American tobacco industry suffered a huge blow, as the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld earlier rulings that the industry violated federal racketeering laws in a decades-long scheme to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. The court affirmed most remedies ...
Our post about the child custody case in North Carolina (in which a judge ordered a home-schooling mother to put her kids in public school) was hotly debated, with more than 1400 comments; now there’s a written decision from the judge making it clear that the media’s reporting of the ...
A judge in Raleigh, North Carolina, has ordered a woman who was home-schooling her children with creationist beliefs to put them in public school. RALEIGH, N.C. — A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is ...
The Viacom entertainment conglomerate has won a ruling that will force YouTube (owned by Google) to disclose details about every person who has ever watched a video at the site: Google must divulge YouTube log. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of ...
Watch out for ideological whiplash; in the same week, the Supreme Court has banned the death penalty for child rapists, and ruled that individuals have the right to own guns. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, for the first time in U.S. history, that individual Americans ...
The Supreme Court decided today that raping a child should not be punished with the death penalty. Justice Kennedy said the decision reflects a “maturing society,” which apparently means “more forgiving of child rape.” The reasoning appears to boil down to: if the child isn’t killed, the rapist shouldn’t be ...
Fred Thompson has an excellent piece posted at PJ Media, on the implications of Boumediene: A Supremely Problematic Court Decision. As I pointed out last week, and as legal scholar John Yoo did earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, the “Boumediene Five” have done our nation and ...
LGF, Fred Thompson, Guantanamo Bay, Supreme Court, Terrorism, Law
Wow. The MPAA thinks that because modern technology makes it hard to legally prove the origins of copyrighted materials distributed via the net, they should be able to collect damages from people without proving anything. The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right ...
LGF, MPAA, Record industry, Movies, Hollywood, Law, Copyright
Finally, a court ruling in a terrorism trial that isn’t completely brain dead: Court upholds conviction in Bush al Qaeda plot. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of an American citizen for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush and conspiring with al ...
LGF, Islamic Terror, Ahmed Abu Ali, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Law
A lawsuit by families of suicide bomb victims against French bank Credit Lyonnais, alleging that the bank knowingly provided financial services to genocidal terrorists, will proceed. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit by families of suicide bomb victims in Israel seeking damages from French bank Credit Lyonnais claiming it knowingly ...