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Legal system needs to rethink insanity, related defense ploysAllentown Morning CallHowever, there needs to be some sort of objective criterion upon which to base rules for the legal system, such as prior history. If you did not seek help for your problem before you murdered or maimed someone, don't use that problem as an excuse [...]

Zee News Indian legal system is slow: Imran KhanHindustan TimesActor Imran Khan, who had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court against Maharashtra government's decision of raising the age limit of drinking to 25, believes that the slow legal system is delaying the case. …Legal system of India lacks pace: Imran [...]

Zee News Legal system of India lacks pace: Imran KhanZee NewsMumbai: Bollywood actor Imran Khan is one of the many who feel that India's legal proceedings lack pace. According to Imran the judiciary must find a way out so that cases are dealt in a speedy manner. The actor had filed a Public Interest Litigation [...]

Case audit reveals flaws in legal systemThe NationThe Office of the Attorney General and the courts need to be more active and do more to hold law-enforcement officials in the deep South accountable, academic and legal experts said, pointing to the high number of cases that are dismissed. …and more » View full post on legal [...]

Wall Street Journal Gingrich Takes Aim at Legal SystemWall Street JournalRepublican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich came out swinging Saturday against the nation's legal system, pledging if elected to defy Supreme Court rulings with which he disagrees and declaring that a 200-year-old principle of American government, …and more » View full post on legal – Google News

Slate Magazine (blog) Will Neuroscience Revolutionize the Legal System? Not Any Time Soon.Slate Magazine (blog)Earlier this year, Baylor professor David Eagleman argued in his book Incognito that neuroscience was set to alter the legal system forever. He wrote, “Discoveries in neuroscience suggest a new way forward for law and order—one that will …and more » View [...]

Anderson: Legal system letdownAdelaide NowWith Attorney-General John Rau announcing on Thursday that he will not refer Mr McGee to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, the controversial hit-run case now looks set to go down in the minds of many South Australians as one of this …and more » View full post on legal – Google News

MIAMI – A Florida federal judge on Dec. 1 vacated a $ 25,000 judgment for a woman’s estate in her discrimination and retaliation case against a former employer, finding that the plaintiffs’ failure to disclose the woman’s bankruptcy filing was “calculated to make a mockery of the judicial system” (Roberto Alvarez, et al. v. Royal [...]

Our legal system does not view cannabis abuse as seriously as it shouldHerald SunThis problem is compounded by a legal system that doesn't treat cannabis abuse as seriously as it should and the attitudes of parents who are fatalistic or disengaged, regarding dope use by their kids as inevitable – you know, most other people's [...]

LA teachers union drops legal challenge to evaluation systemLos Angeles TimesThe union for Los Angeles teachers has suspended its legal challenge to a pilot evaluation program that includes using standardized test scores as part of a teacher's performance review. The union also reserved the right to reactivate the case should …and more » View full post [...]