Former US attorney general John Ashcroft has accepted a part-time position as Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at Regent University , the Virginia Beach Christian graduate school headed by evangelist Pat Robertson . Ashcroft's first course in April will be a week long and will cover "leadership in times of crisis." He is scheduled [...]

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UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has ordered a review of the British government's decision last year to downgrade cannabis from a regulatory B class to a C class, the same as anabolic steriods and anti-depressants. The review, disclosed Saturday , comes after a new study suggested a strong link between mental ilness and cannabis use. [...]

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Schiavo v. The Honorable George W. Greer, et al., United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Tampa Division, Judge James S. Moody, March 18, 2005 . Excerpt: The fact that Petitioners have exhausted their state court appellate options without success does not provide this Court with jurisdiction over this matter. Therefore, the [...]

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US v. Platte; US v. Hudson; US v. Gilbert, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, March 17, 2005 . Excerpt: Of course, whenever a criminal statute has such a broad scope, some prohibited activities may be much less reprehensible than others. The maximum permissible sentence is designed for the most reprehensible offenses. [...]

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US District Judge Nancy Atlas decided Friday against renewal of the automatic stay protecting the remaining assets of Yukos , the Russian energy company whose bankruptcy case was dismissed in a Houston bankruptcy court last February. The decision comes as a major loss to Yukos, which faces a $27.5 billion back tax bill enforced by [...]

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