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...Ours is not a criminal process. We’re not going to take away somebody’s civil rights,” he says. “We have a whole different standard: hearsay is fine with us; we take cases that the district attorney would never take; we’re not adjudicating...
Last Friday, Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha L. Garst and more than a dozen police officers raided the James Madison University campus newspaper, The Breeze. They ordered the staff to turn over pictures taken at Springfest, an annual campus party that police broke up this year because it turned into a riot. On Friday, police entered The Breeze’s newsroom with a search warrant and threatened to seize all cameras, computers, and other documents unless the photos were turned over. Left with no choice but to hand over the photos, Breeze Editor-in-Chief Katie...
...University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor who helped write the legislation. He believes it will withstand constitutional challenge. "In the bill, Arizona only penalizes what is already a crime under federal law," says Kobach, a Yale Law School graduate and onetime counsel to former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. "That constitutes concurrent enforcement in legal terms, which the courts have said is permissible." Says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative think tank in Washington: "The rhetoric that this bill will create a police state is ridiculous. What this does is give...
Violent outbursts and emotional detachment in older children adopted internationally are "very familiar to those of us in the field, as sad as it may be," says Michael Goldstein, an adoption attorney in Rye Brook, N.Y. Older adopted children often arrive in their new homes after being taken away from or abandoned by abusive parents. In the case of Russian adoptees, children have to spend at least a year in an orphanage before the country deems them eligible for international adoption. It can take years for older adopted children to fully integrate into their new families; some never...
...This woman had alternatives," says Debbie Spivack, an adoption attorney with offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware who has helped facilitate placement of children given up by their adoptive families. "She really endangered the child and did something exceptionally damaging for everybody else...