By Chinta Puxley, THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG – There was no lasting help for a man who twice risked his life last year to save drowning people, his stepdaughter said after a vicious weekend attack left the “Homeless Hero” unrecognizable in hospital. Kristy Assin said Faron Ha ...

As a Fort Lauderdale child pornography possession defense attorney, I wrote last year about a Connecticut court’s decision to award financial restitution to a young woman who had been a child victim of child pornographers. This is an established practice in prosecutions of the people who make the ch ...

The title of this post is the headline of , which effectively reviews the robust legal and policy debates over whether restitution orders should be a big part of federal child porn sentencing proceedings.  Here are excerpts: this new AP piece The issue of criminal restitution in child porn ...

At left, we have Amy Adams as she first entered my consciousness. It is an image that I will not willingly relinquish. But now, a new Amy Adams, the Amy Adams of the profoundly disappointing Julie and Julia endeavors to...

As noted in a prior post, Lancet Cuts Wakefield Study: A Blow To the New McCarthyism?, the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet's removal this week of the study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, attempting to link the MMR vaccine to autism, has pushed this on-going debate back into the forefront of ...

Just a quick post to encourage you to try Google’s new “Latest” search option. It provides up-to-the-second search results including social media. So, if you really want to know what people are saying up to the moment, it’s the best thing out there right now. Twitter’s ...

This week, after a decade as a part of the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, Dr. Andrew Wakefield's study, the first to attempt to link autism with the MMR (measles, mumps rubella) vaccine, has been withdrawn from that publication. Dr. Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, has said, "I ...

Three people died from injuries they sustained during a Chicago car crash on the Northwest Side on Monday night. The victims are 13-month old Joshua Molina Jr., 20-year-old Orlando Rodriguez, and 21-year-old Aldo Maldonado. Molina’s mother, Amy Alanis, survived the Illinois traffic wreck. Her boyfri ...

Arizona Amy J. Cohen (Ohio). Columbia Susan P. Strum (Columbia). Florida State Douglas Husak (Rutgers). Loyola Joshua D. Wright (George Mason), Is Antitrust Too Complicated for Generalist Judges? The Impact of Economic Complexity & Judicial Training on Appeals. Minnesota Stephanos B ...

Democracy Now has an interview with Dr. Gabor Maté of Insite, AMY GOODMAN: The Obama administration’s budget proposal for the Office of National Drug Control Policy sets aside nearly twice the amount of funding for law enforcement and criminalization than for treatment and prevention of drug addicti ...