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• Department of Justice Issues Guidance for Use of DNA Identification in Mass Disasters; Work of 9/11 Panel Provides Valuable Lessons

  WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice today issued the report, "Lessons Learned from 9/11: DNA Identification in Mass Fatality Incidents." The report is the result of the Kinship Data Analysis Panel KADAP, which theWASHINGTON, Sept. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice today issued the...

  Research articles 2006-09-11

  Tags: 9/11 commission, DNA, U.S. Department of Justice

• Child Protection Office Coordinates State, Local Actions, Funds Programs

  President Bush enacted a new law to create a child protection office within the Justice Department and to establish a broad array of programs to combat Internet sex crimes. The new law also has provisions that deal with street gangs and safeguard witnesses. The new law, PL 109-248, is known...

  Research articles 2006-07-31

  Tags: DNA, U.S. Department of Justice

• Department of Justice Releases Interactive Training Tool on Principles of Forensic DNA

  WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice today issued an interactive electronic training program, Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court, to educate criminal justice professionals and other practitioners about the science of DNA analysis and the legal issues regarding the use of DNA in...

  Research articles 2006-02-22

  Tags: Biotechnology, DNA, training, U.S. Department of Justice

• Department of Justice Announces $98 Million in Grants for President Bush's DNA Initiative and Other Crime-Solving Forensic Services

  TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice today announced more than $84 million in DNA grants nationwide as part of President Bush's DNA Initiative, Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology. The DNA Initiative is a five- year, $1TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department...

  Research articles 2005-09-19

  Tags: DNA, U.S. Department of Justice

• Crime labs in disarray over DNA profiles, report says

  WASHINGTON -- Nearly two years after the U.S. government allocated $28.5 million to help state and local crime labs reduce a massive backlog of untested DNA samples, less than half of the money has been used, a Justice Department report said Monday. The federal DNA initiative was touted as...

  Research articles 2004-11-16

  Tags: Biotechnology, database, DNA, U.S. Department of Justice

• No death-penalty doubts at justice: DNA testing and racial bias raise questions of fairness--but not with Ashcroft. (Court Packing).(Attorney General John Ashcroft)

  In a time of growing doubt about whether the death penalty is being administered fairly and accurately, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is hewing to a policy of full speed ahead in implementing it. "He's the anti-Ryan," says David Bruck, a federal capital-defense lawyer in Columbia,...

  Research articles 2003-03-01

  Tags: Bush, DNA, U.S. Department of Justice

• Justice initiative welcome, needed

  Michigan Chronicle 09-04-2001 Justice initiative welcome, needed Who would have thought the Justice Department under President Bush would be in any way protective of civil rights. Attorney General John Ashcroft has come forward with an ambitious program that will be...

  Research articles 2001-09-04

  Tags: Biotechnology, DNA, U.S. Department of Justice

• Correctional Systems Increase Use of DNA Testing.

  The April 2001 Office for Victims of Crime Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Justice DOJ began with the statement: "DNA evidence is playing a larger role than ever before in criminal cases throughout the country, both to convict the guilty an The April 2001 Office...

  Research articles 2001-08-01

  Tags: DNA, U.S. Department of Justice

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• Arctic Glacier Cooperates Fully With Related U.S. Department of Justice Investigation

  Arctic Glacier Income Fund (TSX: AG.UN) announced that its operating subsidiary, Arctic Glacier Inc., was notified today that the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice is investigating whether the Company has violated the False Claims Act by entering into allegedly anticompetitive agreements that may have affected sales...

  Articles 2008-11-26

• Legal Opinions - 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: November 24,

  Criminal Procedure Brady claim BOTTOM LINE: District court properly denied criminal defendant's petition for writ of habeas corpus where a different result could not have obtained at trial if purported Brady evidence had been disclosed. CASE: Mosley v. Branker, US4th No....

  Articles 2008-11-24

• Presidential pardons can show system works

  As President Bush's term nears its end, rumors abound that he will grant a lot of final pardons. Hundreds of clemency applications have been filed with the Justice Department in the past year, a reflection of the popular belief that pardoning is an end-of-term phenomenon in which all presidents indulge....

  Articles 2008-11-23

• Black asks Bush for pardon

  'Cheeky' attempt unlikely to succeed, experts say Request puts spotlight on President's absolute power CONRAD BLACK, the disgraced peer and former press baron who was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison last year for pocketing illicit millions, has asked George Bush to use his presidential powers...

  Articles 2008-11-22

• Mukasey collapses during speech

  WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense former federal judge who took over the Justice Department after Alberto Gonzales resigned in disgrace, collapsed during a speech Thursday night and lost consciousness. The 67-year-old Mukasey was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, where his condition was not...

  Articles 2008-11-21

• Research and Markets: Successful Clinical Integration Initiatives in Physician Organizations: How to Build a FTC Compliant Program Audio Conference

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f073ed/successful_clinica) has announced the addition of the "Successful Clinical Integration Initiatives in Physician Organizations: How to Build a FTC Compliant Program Audio Conference" report to their offering. The FTC and Department of Justice have described a clinically integrated network as one that...

  Articles 2008-11-21

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  LIMA, Peru -- Countries on both sides of the Pacific have reason to be very afraid of climate change. Rising sea levels could swamp coastal farms, higher temperatures could wipe out entire species and increasingly violent storms could exact a widening human and financial toll. But at...

  Articles 2008-11-21

• Napolitano: Arizonan no stranger to scandal

  WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's likely pick for Homeland Security secretary, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, is no stranger to headline-making Washington scandals and controversies. Napolitano was a U.S. attorney in Phoenix, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, when the Justice Department decided against prosecuting Arizona Republican Sen....

  Articles 2008-11-21

• Daschle to replace Leavitt at HHS in Obama Cabinet

  WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building by the president- elect who promised change. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the capital's most famous woman for two decades, seemed ever more likely to be...

  Articles 2008-11-20

• REALTORS®, Consumers Winners in Settlement With DOJ

  CHICAGO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal court in Chicago has approved the settlement agreement between the National Association of RealtorsR and the U.S. Department of Justice ending antitrust charges against RealtorsR. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080923/NARLOGO) "This is a great day for real estate and for consumers....

  Articles 2008-11-20

• Obama transition post could signal change for head of Maryland Dept.

  Gov. Martin O'Malley might soon be in the market for a new labor secretary. President-elect Barack Obama has tapped Thomas E. Perez, the current head of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, to head his transition committee for justice and civil rights issues -- a...

  Articles 2008-11-19

• Holder tops Obama's list for A.G.

  WASHINGTON -- Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday. Holder, a former...

  Articles 2008-11-19