Mike Nifong, the Durham County DA whose questionable conduct in the prosecution of three Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape led him to be disbarred this week, may face significant legal action in the near future.

The three …

The New York Times today has an article on assorted state bans of and the complications around voting by the mentally insane. Easy pops like there are many voting decisions out there I personally think are insane aside, my …

The Hatch Act, 5 USC § 7324, states:
(a) A political employee may not engage in political activity –
(1) while the employee is on duty;
(2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by an individual employed …

In late May President Bush signed a federal minimum wage law that will raise the minimum wage by about 40% over the next two years. The wage increase will go into effect on July 23.

This is the first minimum …

The district attorney who pursued false charges of rape against Duke lacrosse players, Michael Nifong, has been permanently disbarred by a state ethics panel. The chairman of the panel, which reached an unanimous decision, stated: “This matter has been …

Conservative bloggers are up in arms over the immigration reform bill that President Bush is trying to push through Congress. The bill had seemed to die only ten days ago, but was revived by the efforts of some …

The British 2004 Children Act removed the defence of “reasonable punishment” in cases involving offences such as actual bodily harm and child cruelty, thus making an important step forward for child protection. However, it stopped short of banning all …

Yesterday, Shroma Hollywood Lang became the second man convicted under a new federal law, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which prosecutes convicted sex offenders for failing to register as sex offenders when they move into a new …

I find it amenable to break, from time to time, from standard-practice tracing of highly politicized (and highly publicized) legislation and prosecution of the law in Washington. So, without further delay:

The good state of Iowa has made it a …

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that America’s home care workers are not entitled to overtime pay. The unanimous decision came in the case of Evelyn Coke, a 73 year-old retiree of the service industry, who sought to overturn a …