by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty NASA published a notice of a Meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (PDF) in today’s Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 6407-6408): SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics a ...

Paul Robinson of Rockland, Massachusetts was arrested last week after employees of a Dunkin' Donuts reported that he had exposed himself to them several times since last October. Apparently the manager of the store had reported the activity days before the arrest but no one was able to locate the su ...

Cover of Mr & Mrs Smith [Blu-ray]The U.K.'s best-selling newspaper, the Sunday tabloid NewsoftheWorld, is bracing for a libel war with Hollywood glamour couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.While Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34, watched the Super Bowl Sunday from a private box in Miami's Sun Life stadium (to ...

The nursing home roommate from hell. A former San Diego nursing home resident was sentenced to 19 years in jail yesterday for setting a series of fires at two local nursing homes while she was a resident. According to an investigation, Mary Wilson tried to kill her nursing home roommate by setting ...

The Law Library, and all Utah State Courts, will be closed on Monday, February 15, for Presidents' Day. Regular library hours (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) resume on Tuesday, February 16. In 1879, George Washington's birthday - February 22, was deemed a national holiday by the 45th Congress. Today, the third M ...

As detailed in from the , the story of Texas justice (at least in the non-capital arena) is one that should garner much attention and praise.  The publication is titled "Texas Criminal Justice Reform: Lower Crime, Lower Cost," and here is how it starts: this January 2010 publication Te ...

Dan Immergluck (Georgia State--School of City and Regional Planning) has posted From Global Buck to Local Muck: Capital Markets, Public Policy and Neighborhood Wreckage in the U.S. The abstract: The U.S. subprime crisis was the result of a continual movement...

Environmental advocates have asked a court to use an old law to force manufacturers to reveal what ingredients make up household staple cleaning items. The cleanser industry, which has recently pushed voluntary efforts to unveil product ingredients, claims that the lawsuit is not warranted and that ...

The United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary hosted a forum entitled, "Head and Other Injuries in Youth, High School, College and Professional Football" Monday, February 1, 2010, in Houston, Texas. Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, partic ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court accepted an agreed public reprimand of a former county magistrate for intervention with tickets. The court found the following facts: This matter was referred to ODC following an internal investigation at the Department of Public...