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...according to Rosenberg, the randomization of the Houses has decreased interest in council elections because their particular House's interests aren't as much at stake...
...Hampshire State Senate acquitted Chief Justice David Brock of the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the state's first impeachment trial of a judge. Brock was accused of perverting justice on several occasions--in particular when he allowed fellow justices to comment on cases from which they had been disqualified; when he allowed Justice Stephen Thayer to provide input as to who would sit on a special panel to hear Thayer's own divorce case; and when, in a 1986 phone call to a Superior Court Judge, Brock tried to influence a case she was hearing. Many New Hampshire state...
...mile stretch of dirt road. For many Brazilians, the paving of such rutted, often impassable routes has almost mystical significance as an essential part of economic progress. But to environmentalists this ritual of development always means destruction for the earth's largest rain forest, and in this particular case, could unleash forces that would make this road the most dangerous thoroughfare in the world...
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a refugee is entitled to asylum if he or she faces "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." The legal standard is essentially the same for refugees like De Santiago seeking permission to stay, or what is officially known as the "withholding of removal." In recent years, the definition of a social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled...
...echo De Santiago's. He lost his residency as a result of a felony conviction. The judge found it likely that the 42-year-old man would suffer persecution in China, which advocates sterilization for the mentally ill, and agreed that the man had proved his membership in a "particular social group." A California judge issued a similar ruling in De Santiago's case, but the executive office for immigration review has filed a notice of appeal, writing that the judge "erred in finding that those individuals in Mexico who are 'mentally ill' are members of a particular social group...