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By Elizabeth Chuck, MSNBC News Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday. No charges were filed against Hebshi, a self-described “half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio,” or the two men sitting next to...

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Friday & Saturday, October 21 & 22, 2011 At The Palm Springs Doral Desert Princess Resort 67967 Vista Chino, Cathedral City, California 92234 Program Coordinators: Charles Denton, Assistant Public Defender, Alameda County Bart Sheela, Deputy Alternate Public Defender, San Diego County CPDA has put together a special seminar that will address a wide array of issues that arise...

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The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has sued the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to stop the NLRB from moving forward with its new rule requiring employers to post a notice informing employees of their right to organize a union. Original post: Challenges to New NLRA Poster Requirement

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What if there was a way to lower your legal fees? Especially when it comes to paying a lawyer to draft business contracts? FindLaw's Corporate Counsel Contracts Center can help you do just that. With almost 5,000 contracts drafted by top attorneys and paid for by public companies (including a new batch from the Fortune 500), the database...

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Firing employees can be tricky. Anybody who has taken part in terminating employees knows that when emotions run high, sometimes lprofessionalism - and even logic - goes out the window. We've all heard stories of how employees have reacted to getting fired . Some may get a little violent, belligerent, or downright emotional. Generally, no employer takes pleasure...

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9-12-2011 Melissa Figueroa, 31, of West Sacramento, has been appointed deputy secretary of communications of the State and Consumer Services Agency. Figueroa has been the press secretary for State Senator Joe Simitian since 2009. She was a consumer producer at KCRA 3 Television from 2006 to 2009 and a newscast producer at KSBY 6 Television from 2002 to...

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Drastically redefining incarceration in California, prison officials are about to start releasing thousands of female inmates to serve the remainder of their sentences at home. The move will help the state meet a court-imposed deadline to thin its chronically overcrowded prisons, and could be extended to male inmates in the near future, administrators said Monday. Incarcerated mothers who...

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Channel 10 News – Sacramento – September 12, 2011 SACRAMENTO – Just a few days after Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones said the state’s plan for realignment is “asinine”, more than 30 other sheriff’s have agreed. Prisoner realignment, made possible by AB 109, enforces a U.S. Supreme Court mandate, which calls state prisons to…[For full story: http://www.news10.net/news/article/154512/2/Sheriffs-concerned-about-realignment-Brown-wont-budge ] Go...

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The New Jersey Supreme Court has instructed police and judges to take into account an array of responses that might prevent mistaken identifications. California should do the same. To many Americans — including many jurors — eyewitness testimony is the gold standard when it comes to evidence. But studies demonstrate that a variety of factors can lead to...

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Terrorizing Ourselves: Specious reports of "suspicious" activity throw airports into disarray across the country, but no threats to aviation uncovered.