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  When the Only Crime is Having a Common Name...
  NBC Chicago
  By Lisa Parker NBC Chicago's Target 5 looks at two cases where innocent men are denied unemployment because someone else with their same name has a criminal background. Samuel M. Jackson, of the Chicago area, already has it rough it enough when it ...
  
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  Dykema Launches Exclusive CFPB Regulatory Scorecard
  MarketWatch (press release)
  CHICAGO, Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dykema, the leading financial services law firm in the Midwest, today announced the release, on the firm's CFPB Law Blog, of its new regulatory scorecard on activities of the new Bureau of Consumer Financial ...
  
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  Reclaiming The Rehabilitative Ethic in Military Justice: New Article Proposes ...
  Albany Times Union
  [6] Ironically, while many civilian agencies have modified the criminal justice system to respond to the treatment needs of veterans based on trauma they suffered during active duty military service, military offenders with psychological wounds of war ...
  
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  Chicago officer to be sentenced in fatal DUI case
  Boston Herald
  University of Chicago law professor Craig Futterman said the fatal crash illustrates deep flaws in the way police handle cases involving their own. He said an internal affairs investigator — who had the authority to order Bolling to take a ...
  
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  Chicago school penalises students for misconduct
  The News International
  Students at the Noble Street Schools network in the US city of Chicago are being penalised for 'crimes' ranging from “not looking a teacher in the eye” to “chewing gum.” According to the New York Times, “Four demerits bring a three-hour after-school ...
  
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  ACLU of Utah's new legal boss called 'capable, committed'
  Salt Lake Tribune
  Mejia graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with honors in 2003. Prior to law school, Mejia attended Brown University, where he also graduated with honors in 1997. He returned to Utah in 2008 to work in US District Court as a law clerk.
  
  
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  Whitney Price Joins Butler Rubin as an Associate
  SunHerald.com
  Prior to entering law school, Price she spent four years working for The Justice Project, a criminal justice reform organization in Washington, DC A 2001 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Price served as Submissions Review Editor of ...
  
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