By Tobi Cohen, THE CANADIAN PRESS BELLEVILLE, Ont. – The Canadian military was rocked to its core Monday following the bombshell allegation that the colonel in command of the country’s largest air force base had killed two women and sexually assaulted two others. Col. Russell Willia ...

JESSICA BIEL eats a chocolate-covered cricket.

The UK government recently made a splash with its move towards opening government data. Now CC Australia’s Jessica Coates shares a promising government initiative in her home country. The Victorian Government has become the first Australian government to commit to using Creative Commons as the ...

Ten former law clerks at Thompson Hine have all been elevated to associates. They are Leonard Lescosky of the firm’s Atlanta office; Kyla Baker, Jessica Groza, Barbara Lum, Tom Ritzert and Jana Shearer of Cleveland; Terrance Mebane of Columbus; Angela Ceccarelli of Dayton; Keith Binder of New ...

Miami-Dade County is leading the push for softer residency restriction laws for convicted sex offenders in order that they may find a place to live. A new sex offender law may help with housing options. Time Magazine reports that a new sex offender law will help clean up the eyesore of tents and s ...

The California Supreme Court rejected several constitutional challenges to Jessica's Law, which is designed to keep sex offenders from living near parks, schools and other places where children gather. According to the Associated Press, a 5-2 court ruled that Jessica's Law (Proposition 83) does not ...

The title of this post is the headline of , which discusses broadly the issue of sex offender residency restrictions.  Here are excerpts: this new piece in magazine Time The Julia Tuttle Causeway is one of Miami's most beautiful bridge spans, connecting the city to Miami Beach th ...

In , Howard Bashman provides links to major media coverage of today's big ruling from the California Supreme Court concerning the state's residency restrictions for sex offenders. Here are snippets from of the ruling: this post at How Appealing this coverage Los Angeles Times The ...

Today a split California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 83, or "Jessica's Law," turning back constitutional challenges to the measure from four ex-convicts who argued that the law's provisions are "not rationally related to the harm voters were trying to prevent."...

The California Supreme Court is questioning the legality of Jessica's Law violates and whether sex predators should be treated differently from other violent offenders. According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Supreme Court ruled that a provision of Jessica's Law to lock up sexually vio ...