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...people it's O.K. to simply "walk away." For $995, You Walk Away sends its Walk Away Protection Plan & Kit, which explains the laws regarding foreclosure, debt collection and bankruptcy. It's a nice compilation but nothing you couldn't find online. Customers also get one consultation with an attorney, a tax evaluation and, for an extra $39 a month, a "credit repair" service--but pretty much the only thing it can do is erase inaccuracies in your credit report. What is real--and what is very much downplayed by these outfits--is how completely a foreclosure wrecks your finances...
After Kelly's acquittal, Cook County State's Attorney Richard A. Devine defended up his team's decision not to call the alleged victim, saying, "We weren't going to open new wounds." He added, "Child pornography can be extremely difficult to prove - especially because the victims may not consider themselves to be victims. But we, as a community, have to stand up for them even if they fail to come forward and state what the evidence makes clear...
...historic significance, it remains to be seen what practical consequences the Supreme Court ruling will have. According to Shayana Kadidal, senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit whose lawyers serve as sole or joint counsel for more than 200 prisoners at Guantánamo, "The impact of this ruling on military commissions trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others may very well be negligible, because federal courts have always been reluctant to stop trials, including military trials, in mid-process...
...many levels for a state like Kansas," said Mike Gaughan, executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party. In a state where only two out of 105 counties voted for John Kerry in 2004, Democrats took a House seat, six seats in the Kansas legislature and the attorney general's office from the G.O.P. in 2006. "We saw Obama's staff at work here during the primary season. They had organized on the ground back from October for the Feb. 5 caucuses," Gaughan said. "The way that they activated their supporters is going to pay dividends" for all Kansas Democratic candidates...
...Texas The Long Journey Home On June 2, a district judge ordered the return of nearly 460 children to a polygamist sect's care after a state supreme court ruled in its favor. But Child Protective Services and the Attorney General will continue investigations into alleged sexual abuse on the sect's Yearning for Zion ranch. Though no charges have been filed, families cannot leave the state...