Category Archives: Law

Court: No warrant needed to search cell phone

By doris | Published: January 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com The next time you’re in California, you might not want to bring your cell phone with you. The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can search the cell phone of a person who’s been arrested — including text messages — without obtaining a warrant, and use that data as evidence. [...]

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Fla. School Board Shooting: Purse Used to Smack Gunman Clay Duke Sold for $13,100 on eBay, Says Report

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at CBSNews.com PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (CBS/AP) The purse a woman used to hit a gunman at a Florida Panhandle school board meeting was sold for charity on eBay for $13,100, according to a report. PICTURES: Fla. School Board Shooting The purse’s owner, board member Ginger Littleton, tried to use the purse to [...]

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San Jose to outlaw plastic bags at checkouts

By doris | Published: December 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The newspaper said the ordinance would outlaw disposable plastic bags being given out at checkouts. Paper bags will be available, but only with a charge. San Jose has a population of more than a million people. “This is a great step,” Councilman Sam Liccardo told the Mercury News. “It’s an opportunity [...]

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Clinton: U.S. can do more to help Mexico fight drug cartels

By doris | Published: October 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. can do more to help Mexico battle drug cartels that have started operating more like terrorists and insurgent groups. “It is one of my highest priorities,” Clinton said Friday during a speech in San Francisco at the nonpartisan Commonwealth Club. “This [...]

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U.S.: 3,500 unused Gulf wells must be plugged

By doris | Published: September 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — Oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will have to permanently plug nearly 3,500 temporarily abandoned wells and dismantle about 650 production platforms that are no longer used, the Obama administration announced Wednesday. The move comes as the energy industry voices complaints that it is being [...]

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Ariz. man battles neighbors over tea party-linked flag

By doris | Published: August 31, 2010

Full Story atmsnbc.msn.com LAVEEN, Ariz — Don’t tread on Andy C. McDonel. This year, Mr. McDonel began flying a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag on his roof in this unincorporated area just outside Phoenix. The historic banner — which dates to 1775, when it was hoisted aboard ships during the initial days of the [...]

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Mexican woman granted asylum for domestic abuse

By doris | Published: August 14, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN FRANCISCO — A Mexican woman who claimed she was beaten and raped for decades by her common-law husband has won the right to stay in the United States in a case that experts say makes clear that domestic violence is valid grounds for asylum. The Department of Homeland Security found [...]

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Utah moves to fire 2 over immigrants data list

By doris | Published: July 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Utah Department of Workforce Services has moved to fire two employees believed to have created and distributed a list containing personal information of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday. The agency terminated a temporary worker and issued an “intent to terminate employment” notice to the other, spokesman [...]

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Manson follower faces parole board for 19th time

By doris | Published: July 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES — Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing on Tuesday with a new lawyer and new case law which may give her the best chance yet for release. Even if [...]

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House passes bill on oil-spill damages; weather slows cleanup

By doris | Published: July 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that removes limits on financial damages that can be awarded for accidents off the U.S. coastline, such as the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers. The bill updates maritime laws that have [...]

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Feds arrest 10 accused of being Russian agents

By doris | Published: June 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Less than a week after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the United States, the Justice Department announced Monday that 10 people were arrested on charges of being Russian agents involved in a long-term mission in the country. Another suspect was still being sought. Five of the arrested suspects [...]

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Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns

By doris | Published: May 17, 2010

Full Story at Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state’s schools to “throwing them in to the enemy’s flames”. Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her [...]

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GIs ‘afraid to deploy’ over spouses’ illegal status

By doris | Published: May 8, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Lt. Kenneth Tenebro enlisted in the armed forces after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, signing up even before he became an American citizen. He served one tour of duty in Iraq, dodging roadside bombs, and he would like to do another. But throughout that first mission, he harbored a fear he [...]

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National Day of Prayer goes on despite ruling

By doris | Published: May 7, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The 59th annual National Day of Prayer was held Thursday against a backdrop of controversy and growing doubts about the future of the event, which a federal judge recently declared unconstitutional. President Truman signed a bill establishing an official National Day of Prayer in 1952, but U.S. District [...]

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Obama to allow oil drilling off Virginia

By doris | Published: March 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia’s shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska. Obama’s plan offers few concessions to environmentalists, who have [...]

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Cost-cutting states reduce prison populations

By doris | Published: March 17, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK – Spurred by budget crises, California and Michigan together reduced their prison populations by more than 7,500 last year, contributing to what a new report says is the first nationwide decline in the number of state inmates since 1972. The overall drop was slight, according to the Pew Center [...]

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BAE Systems to pay $400M fine

By doris | Published: March 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — British defense contractor BAE Systems has pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and was ordered to pay a $400 million criminal fine, authorities announced. A top Justice Department official said the fine is one of the largest criminal fines ever levied in the [...]

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Suit says dentist left drill bit in woman’s head

By doris | Published: January 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com TAMPA, Fla. – A lawsuit claims a dentist’s drill bit was left in a Tampa woman’s head for nearly a year. The lawsuit says Donna Delgao’s surgeon left an inch-long piece of steel in a wound after dental surgery in 2008. The tool lodged in her right maxillary sinus. It was [...]

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New rule for truck, bus drivers: No texting

By doris | Published: January 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Drivers of commercial trucks and buses are prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday. “We want the drivers of big rigs and buses and those who share the roads with them to be safe,” LaHood said in a statement. “This is [...]

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