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Military Commissions Act of 2006: A bill to facilitate bringing to justice terrorists and other unlawful enemy combatants through full and fair trials by military commissions, and for other purposes – September 6, 2006 (86 pages, PDF) Related government documents: Message to the Congress of the United States on the Military Commissions Act of 2006, …
Press Release: U.S. Adults More Likely to Turn to the Web for Legal Information, New Survey from Lawyers.com Reveals
Press release: “The Mount Sinai Medical Center today released the findings from the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, the largest multi-center clinical program providing medical screening examinations for the workers and volunteers who worked at Ground Zero and other sites following the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11.” …
“In connection with a hearing scheduled for September 6, 2006 by the Senate Committee on Finance, the Joint Committee on Taxation has issued Present Law And Background Relating To Executive Compensation (JCX-39-06), September 5, 2005 (47 pages, PDF).”
Press release: “Beginning this year, UVA Law will offer a unique opportunity for third-year students hoping to eventually argue cases before the United States Supreme Court. The Law School has launched the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, which will train students in becoming effective writers and oral advocates at the highest appellate level.”
From the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs: The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories “Numerous unfounded conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks continue to circulate, especially on the Internet.” [August 28, 2006] This site reviews and rebuts eight such theories. Related government documents, literature and postings: National Institute of Standards and …
“The government’s prosecution of international terrorist suspects has sharply declined in the last few years, according to a new special report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). The report, based on very extensive Justice Department data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, is a unique examination of the government’s criminal enforcement effort against …
OpenTheGovernment.org: “Report Finds Federal Government Still More Secretive in 2005: Government secrecy saw further expansion in 2005 despite growing public concern, according to the Secrecy Report Card 2006.” Secrecy Report Card 2006 – Indicators of Secrecy in the Federal Government Recent related postings: Report on Cost Estimates for Security Classification Activities for 2005 U.S. Government …
From Ceres…”te largest coalition of investors, environmental and public interest organizations in North America,” tbis new report, From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurers Can Proactively and Profitably Manage Climate Change, addresses how “…climate change poses unprecedented risks to the insurance industry, but it also creates vast opportunities for new products and services to help consumers …
“The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 175 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity, and growth.”
CLIR: “A joint project of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and OCLC, the registry provides a trusted service for the communication, coordination, and discovery of information about digital masters, their production, and the availability of use copies. The registry includes both digitally reformatted and born-digital objects. Hosted by OCLC and developed on the basis of …
Investigative work by students at the Medill School of Journalism has uncovered a joint FBI and Department of Education data mining program that reviewed the records of hundreds of students. The goal was purportedly to discern whether financial aid funding was used to advance terrorist efforts against the United States. Information about the student’s work …
