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Court: Sex offender Facebook ban unconstitutional
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana law that bans registered sex offenders from using Facebook and other social networking sites that can be accessed by children is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 7th U.S. Circuit of...
Tags: Social Media, Laws, Arts and Culture, Judges, Culture
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Swearing charge dropped in strange Berrien County case
South Bend TribuneST. JOSEPH — Different judge, different outcome. That’s what it boiled down to Friday in Berrien County Trial Court in St. Joseph where Judge Charles LaSata, citing a technicality, dismissed a contempt of court charge against a woman who...Tags: Judges, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Justice System
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Another judge to review woman's swearing case
South Bend TribuneNILES -- A South Bend-area woman will have to wait a little while longer to see what will happen with the criminal contempt charge brought against her for swearing inside Niles South County Courthouse in early December. Larue Ford, 49, appeared with her...Tags: Clarence Thomas, Judges, U.S. Supreme Court, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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UPDATE: Cursing woman in Berrien County Jail for 10 days released
NILES, Mich. (AP) — A woman who was kept in Berrien County jail for 10 days after cursing in the county clerk's office at the courthouse has been released after a second judge intervened. LaRue Ford tells TV station WOOD (http://bit.ly/RWqgL7 )...
Tags: Civil Rights, Judges, Justice and Rights, Prisons, Television Industry
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Judge: Ind. 'indifferent' to mentally ill inmates
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has been "deliberately indifferent" to the plight of mentally ill inmates in its state prisons, who amount to nearly a quarter of the system's population, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton...
Tags: Psychiatry, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Behavioral Conditions, Judges
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Woman jailed for cursing in Berrien County Clerk's Office
NILES – If you're ever at the Berrien County Courthouse in Niles, you may want to watch your language. One woman's cursing landed her in jail for contempt of court -- even though she wasn't in a courtroom. LaRue Ford, 49, of northwest Indiana...
Tags: Judges, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Criminals
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Utah city settles with man who flipped off officer
OREM, Utah (AP) — A Utah city has reached a settlement in a claim that alleged a police officer violated a man's constitutional rights by pulling him over for giving the officer the middle finger. The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah worked... -
Border Patrol under scrutiny for deadly force
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A pair of Mexican drug smugglers in camouflage pants, bundles of marijuana strapped to their backs, scaled a 25 foot-high fence in the middle of the night, slipped quietly into the United States and dashed into the darkness....
Tags: Human Rights, Politics, Laws, Organized Crime, International Relations
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Court blocks Indiana defunding of Planned Parenthood
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana stepped between women and their physicians when it enacted a law that blocked Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 7th U.S....
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Family, Judges, Mitch Daniels, Crime, Law and Justice
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Groups cite youth confinement in Berrien County and 6 other Mich. counties
DETROIT (AP) — Two prisoner rights advocacy groups that criticize the use of solitary confinement for juveniles say they've uncovered at least 15 people in seven Michigan counties, including Berrien, who've undergone the process. Human Rights Watch...Tags: Prisons
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2 groups support Catholic school teacher fired over in vitro
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Two national groups are supporting a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Indiana parochial school teacher who claims she was fired for trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization. The American Society for...
Tags: In Vitro Fertilization, Christianity, Vincent de Paul, Laws, Discrimination
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Woman sues Indiana BMV ... 'You took too long to suspend my license'
Associated Press ReportINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Bloomington woman whose license was supposed to be suspended in 2004 for repeatedly driving without a license says Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles didn't take action for eight years, waiting until she had obtained a...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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