Those who have struggle to make sense of it, not least because so much detail has yet to be filled in: of the 400 rules it mandates, only 93 have been finalised. Examples range from the merely annoying (eg, a proposed code for nurseries in Colorado that specifies how many crayons each box must contain) to the delusional (eg, the conceit of Dodd-Frank that you can anticipate and ban every nasty trick financiers will dream up in the future)
The Order of Things - The New Yorker
Class size has two components, the proportion of classes with fewer than 20 students (30 percent of the faculty resources score) and the proportion with 50 or more students (10 percent of the score). A heterogeneous ranking system works if it focusses just on, say, how much fun a car is to drive, or how good-looking it is, or how beautifully it handles
Charges Against 6 Officers In Freddie Gray's Death Range From Murder To Assault : The Two-Way : NPR
ET: Four Officers Face Manslaughter Charges According to a release from the prosecutor's office, four officers are facing manslaughter charges and one faces an additional count of "second degree depraved heart murder." That murder charge carries a possible penalty of 30 years in prison; the manslaughter and assault offenses carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. ET: Gray's Death A Homicide, Prosecutor Says Mosby said she has assured Gray's family that "no one is above the law," also cited her oath of office, in which she promised "uphold justice." She said that her review of the case found there had been no reason to detain Gray, and that his arrest was illegal
Frederick Leatherman Law Blog
From Wikipedia, Pinckney was first elected to the South Carolina General Assembly in 1996 at the age of 23, becoming the youngest African American elected as a South Carolina state legislator. The dispute is not so much about the money as it is about resolving two competing considerations: (1) whether Greek officials will make a good faith effort to comply with the terms of the loan and (2) whether the eurozone will begin unraveling and eventually collapse if the leaders of the eurozone decide not to loan the money
In an emotional courtroom encounter here, a mother and daughter, a sister and grandson, among others, spoke directly to Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old charged Friday with nine counts of murder. Meanwhile, a federal civil rights investigation into the attacks was also underway, which authorities said will be conducted along with the state probe
Intel, which would supply the Atom CPUs to power the device, has assisted us repeatedly with engineering and partner advice, and gave us pricing that was ridiculously generous given our projected first year sales volumes. A major multi-billion dollar retail partner has been patiently working with us for months, giving advice on manufacturing partners and offering to sell the CrunchPad at a zero margin to help us succeed in the early days
Penitentiary at Terre Haute would place Tsarnaev with other federal death row inmates and in the same complex where federal executions are carried out, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). A 10 foot by 20 foot (3 by 6 meter) outdoor enclosure slightly extends their world, but just for about an hour and a half each day, according to testimony by Mark Bezy, a former federal prison warden."They sit in their cells, locked in their cells every day," Bezy said
However, an analysis of location data shows that Oklahoma, where 22 people have died through encounters with law enforcement, is the state with the highest rate of fatal incidents per person in 2015, at one fatality per 175,000 people over five months. The database, which will combine Guardian reporting with verified crowdsourced information, has logged 464 police killings for the first five months of 2015
70 percent of American households have but one or two choices for high-speed internet access: cable broadband from a cable provider or DSL from a telephone provider. Why are cellphones so much cooler now than they were in 2000? Because Apple and Google and Samsung all had to fight it out and make better products in order to survive
Read more interviews RSS feed for The Lawyer Global News The Lawyer Global News Taylor Wessing's Tim Eyles on his three-year plan and the importance being in Asia Taylor Wessing managing partner Tim Eyles was recently elected for a third term at the helm of the firm. Read more Global News RSS feed for The Lawyer Global Analysis The Lawyer Global Analysis Anti-corruption measures are beginning to benefit Romania Anti-corruption measures are beginning to bite but for now lawyers are pinning their hopes on work in areas such as banking, pharma and agriculture
Pete Ricketts and the Nebraska Death Penalty - The Atlantic
Ricketts called for a voter referendum to overturn the repeal; then he said that the state would execute the ten prisoners currently under sentence of death anyway, using sodium thiopental imported from India.* Meanwhile, Senator Bill Kintner of the unicameral legislature sought to explain his support for executions by posting a photo of a beheaded woman on his Facebook page. I could not read or note every worthy article that was published last calendar year and I haven't included any paywalled articles or anything published at The Atlantic
Stanford Law Review
We find that the colloquial understanding of contract law is almost entirely focused on formalization rather than actual assent, though the modern doctrine of contract formation takes the opposite stance. In some cases, the random match probability will be so low (one in a quadrillion) that the resulting source probability is practically one hundred percent
Nearly 20,000 houses were partly or completely destroyed last summer, and hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza still live in 150,000 damaged residences. Scopus Slopes National Park could not be approved without considering the needs of the neighborhoods whose development would be curtailed by the park, and returned it to the District Committee for reconsideration
No climactic masterwork of deep maturity, no King Lear or Faust, but rather many shifting interests and directions as the winds of market forces blow you here or there. Artists will inevitably spend a lot more time looking over their shoulder, trying to figure out what the customer wants rather than what they themselves are seeking to say
Sue Simmons, Connecticut Joy across America Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jaque Roberts, left, and her partner of 31 years, Carmelita Cabello, right, show off their marriage license in Austin, Texas. same sex marriage discrimination Judd Proctor, a 65-year-old resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, said he never thought he would live to see the day that gay marriage would be a constitutional right
Dylann Roof's Uncle Would 'Push Button' Himself If Nephew Receives Death Penalty - ABC News
Carson Cowles said he can't forgive Dylann Roof, who was arrested Thursday after he allegedly opened fire on a Bible study group at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "If what I am hearing is true, he needs to pay for it." Editor's PicksHow Good Samaritan's Call Led to Dylann RoofFriend of Accused SC Shooter Claims He 'Wanted to Start a...What Gunman Allegedly Told Churchgoers Before Shooting What the Gunman Allegedly Told Churchgoers Before the Shooting A Closer Look at Alleged Gunman Dylann Roof Roof is charged with one count of murder, to start the legal process, Solicitor Scarlett Wilson confirmed, with more charges expected to be added later
This and other pressures exerted by Maududi and his accomplices later translated into The Objectives Resolution, the anti-Ahmadi movement of 1953, and the declaration that no non-Muslim could be the head of the state in the Constitution of Pakistan. Zaheer pointed out that Muslims must apologise to non-Muslims for the unwarranted crimes in the past committed against them in the name of religion to ease tensions
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