Law legalizing casino gambling in Japan takes effect

Edit Japan Times 26 Dec 2016
A law allowing casino gambling took effect Monday, prompting the government to promote the creation of “integrated resorts” that include hotels and other entertainment facilities. The law, sponsored by a group of lawmakers mainly from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, created controversy due to public concern about the risk of gambling addiction. Following the enactment, appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....

Leading-Edge Law Leading-Edge Law: Recent court decision creates trademark opportunity and threat to small business

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 26 Dec 2016
Registering a federal trademark often is challenging and expensive for a small business ... Subscription Required....

Law Ministry faced flak over vacancies in courts in 2016

Edit Zeenews 26 Dec 2016
2016 can be summed up as a year when the Law Ministry came under constant fire of outgoing Chief Justice of India TS Thakur for rising vacancies in the higher judiciary even as its efforts to finalise a document to guide appointments in high courts and the Supreme Court failed to get finalised ... ....

Egypt: Prosecution Orders Detention of Al Jazeera Producer for 15 Days

Edit All Africa 26 Dec 2016
[Aswat Masriya] Cairo -Egyptian prosecutors ordered the detention of Al Jazeera news producer Mahmoud Hussein for 15 days pending investigations on charges of disturbing public security and spreading false news ... ....

Justice Ministry Says Impeachment Bill All Above Board

Edit Chosun Ilbo 26 Dec 2016
The Justice Ministry in a written opinion for the Constitutional Court on Sunday said the National Assembly bill impeaching President Park Geun-hye "meets all legal requirements." The ministry, which has been in a pickle since prosecutors started investigating a massive corruption scandal in ... ....

Nate Balis: Progress on juvenile justice in Virginia

Edit The Virginian-Pilot 26 Dec 2016
HAMPTON ROADS has much to gain from Virginia’s transformation in youth justice. Tidewater sends more youth than any other part of Virginia to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice ... ....

Sign legal services bill, governor

Edit Democrat and Chronicle 26 Dec 2016
The bill would require the state to gradually pick up costs for indigent defense services ... ....

Drivers up to four times the legal limit caught in Christmas holiday tests

Edit Canberra Times 26 Dec 2016
Two extreme cases of drink-driving have ended in a costly fashion for two Victorian motorists caught by police at Myrtleford in the state's north east ... ....

Taiwan moves a step closer to legalizing same-sex marriage

Edit Japan Times 26 Dec 2016
Taiwan’s parliament on Monday passed the first draft of a controversial marriage equality bill, moving the island a step closer to becoming the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex nuptials. A legislative committee approved the amendment to the civil law that would allow gay couples to legally tie the knot, as dozens of opponents appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....

Virginia Department of Health pushes to legalize syringe services programs

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 26 Dec 2016
In the shadow of a public health emergency declaration, state health officials are trying to legalize a program that ......

Paul E. Pfeifer: Retiring Ohio Supreme Court justice has left mark

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 26 Dec 2016
2 as the court's longest-serving justice — being forced out by the mandatory judicial retirement age of 70 — after 24 years of service, the sixth-longest tenure on record. After 16 years in the Ohio Senate and missing out on election as attorney general by 1,234 votes in 1990 to Democrat Lee Fisher, Pfeifer turned to the Ohio Supreme Court almost as an afterthought....

N.Y. attorney general urged to keep pedophile in prison

Edit New York Daily News 26 Dec 2016
Two victims of an upstate pedophile want the state attorney general to keep him locked up ... ....
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