AScribe Law News Service articles from October 2007

AScribe Law News Service archives from October 2007

Elizabethtown College Professor Edits Jackie Robinson's Civil Rights Letters for Book.(Letter to the editor)
October 2, 2007... Byline: Elizabethtown College ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An Elizabethtown College professor has collected and edited the letters of Jackie Robinson in a new book that reveals how the baseball legend sought to use his...

University of California, Davis School of Law Breaks Ground on Major Expansion.
October 2, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Armed with golden shovels, a crew of current and former state lawmakers, lawyers, law school professors, law school deans, law school alumni, prominent...

University of California, Davis Gets $1 Million to Lead UC Response to Violence Against Women.
October 2, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Davis, will use a new, nearly $1 million federal grant to help the UC's 10 campuses improve their response to violence...

Social Threats and Their Influence on Court Outcomes Topic of Award-Winning Paper by Kansas State University Doctoral Student in Sociology.
October 2, 2007... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Kansas State University graduate student's paper that examines how social threat may influence individual criminal court outcomes has been honored as the best...

Proposed IRS Form 990 Revisions Could Hurt Goodwill Industries; New Public Disclosure Forms Create Unnecessary Burden on Charities That Sell Donated Clothing and Household Goods.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Goodwill Industries International ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Goodwill Industries International is urging the Internal Revenue Service to reconsider proposed revisions to its Form 990, a key public disclosure...

Nation's Disability Policy Makes it Hard to Save for Retirement; Goodwill Industries Calls for Passage of H.R. 3696 to Encourage Work and Savings.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Goodwill Industries International ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Goodwill Industries International is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass H.R. 3696, which would modify the nation's disability policies...

New York Can Learn From Pennsylvania's Physician-Driven Malpractice Insurance.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Steve Infanti Communications PAOLI, Pa., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- New York's health care industry is at a crossroads. The recent 14-percent increase in medical malpractice insurance rates, the largest rate increase in a decade,...

Saint Joseph's University Supreme Court Expert Comments on Thomas Memoir.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Saint Joseph's University PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- October means it's back to work for the highest justices of the land, and the U. S. Supreme Court has already accepted 43 cases for the current term, with many...

Palm Center Statement on the Death of Specialist Ciara Durkin.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Michael D. Palm Center SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, a research institute at the University of California, issued a statement following reports of the death of...

Congress Holds First Hearing on Abuse in Unregulated 'Troubled Teen' Industry; Statistical Assessment Service Author Exposed Quackery and Torture Across America.
October 9, 2007... Byline: Center for Media & Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Deaths from medical neglect and other severe child abuse in teen "wilderness programs" "boot camps" "emotional growth boarding schools" and other...

New Podcast Explores How Work Supports Help Low-Wage Families.
October 9, 2007... Byline: Communications Consortium WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Center for Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston will release a new...

Notre Dame's President Emeritus Father Theodore Hesburgh Honored at Smithsonian.
October 10, 2007... Byline: University of Notre Dame WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- To the secretary of state, he is a towering historical figure who nevertheless possesses a deeply personal, deeply spiritual touch. To a former U.S. senator, he...

American Jewish World Service Calls on Congress to Pass Legislation Cancelling Debts Owed by Impoverished Countries; AJWS President Ruth Messinger Joins Others in Fasting for Rapid Action on Debt Relief.
October 11, 2007... Byline: American Jewish World Service NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Urging rapid passage of legislation aimed at providing debt relief to the world's most impoverished countries, Ruth W. Messinger, President of American Jewish...

Online Competition Brings Down Wine Prices in Local Stores.
October 11, 2007... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research suggests a good way to significantly reduce the price many Americans pay for a bottle of wine: knock down the trade barriers between states. ...

Carnegie Mellon's Adrian Perrig Leads Research Team Dedicated to Analyzing, Disrupting Internet Attackers' Black Markets.
October 15, 2007... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Adrian Perrig and Jason Franklin, working in conjunction with Vern Paxson of the International Computer Science Institute and Stefan...

The New Gold Rush: Surge in Mining Claims Threatens California's National Parks and Wilderness.
October 15, 2007... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A modern-day Gold Rush is threatening California's national parks, monuments, wilderness and roadless areas. In the last four years, metals mining claims...

Schwarzenegger Signs Bill to Restore Full Toxics Reporting in California; Legislation Responds to EPA's Rollback of Federal Law.
October 16, 2007... Byline: Environmental Working Group SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a bill to restore Californians' full right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods. ...

British Press Prints Misleading Story on Effects of Gays in Military; American Scholars Set Record Straight.
October 18, 2007... Byline: Michael D. Palm Center SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A British press report of a military "backlash" against the lifting of the ban on gay service makes exaggerated and unfounded assertions, according to...

Study Hints at Efficacy of Florida's Faith-Based Prisons.
October 19, 2007... Byline: The Urban Institute WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Florida Department of Corrections has reason to be "cautiously optimistic about the impact" of its faith- and character-based prisons on reducing criminal behavior,...

First Ever 'Out on Bay Street' Conference Brings LGBT Students, Business Leaders Together.
October 22, 2007... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Nov. 2 and 3, 2007, Toronto will be the site of "Out On Bay Street", the first business conference and career fair targeting Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...

Goodwill Industries Lobbies for a Diverse and Skilled Workforce; Goodwill Holds Inaugural Advocacy Day on Oct. 24.
October 22, 2007... Byline: Goodwill Industries International ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 60 Goodwill representatives from across the United States will gather on Capitol Hill on Oct. 24 to advocate on behalf of people with...

President of The American University in Cairo Promotes 'New Generation of Leaders'.
October 22, 2007... Byline: AScribe, The Public Interest Newswire LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a speech to the World Affairs Council, David D. Arnold, president of The American University in Cairo, defended "a free and open academic...

'Security Risk' Blocks U.S. Troops Overseas From Free Credit Report Site; No Free Online Access for Millions of Americans.
October 24, 2007... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Millions of U.S. citizens outside the country -- including several hundred thousand members of the armed forces -- are not permitted to see their personal credit...

Unpacking Heat: Which Candidate Knows How to Stop Gun Violence?
October 25, 2007... Byline: Saint Joseph's University PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Considering the City of Brotherly Love is known as "Killadelphia," there's no doubt that issues of violence will be at the forefront of Philadelphia voters'...

RAND Corporation Study Finds Different Types of Human Trafficking Occurring in Two of Ohio's Largest Urban Areas.
October 30, 2007... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- An examination of the types of human trafficking occurring in two of Ohio's largest cities found that child prostitution is more common in Toledo while forced...

Base Decision About Execution Moratorium on Facts, Not Rhetoric, Duke Law Professor Says.
October 30, 2007... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Any decision about whether the government should follow through on the American Bar Association's call for a moratorium on executions should be based on facts, not...