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1. U.S. court keeps ban on Republican ballot security programs
(N.J./State)

... Debevoise extended the restrictions for at least another eight years while slightly narrowing the consent decree containing them. Debevoise held that "voter intimidation presents an ongoing threat to ...

2. Improper use of cost benefit analysis allows power plants to kill and dump hundreds of billions of fish annually
(Opinion/Commentary)

... river. While a majority of the conservative Supreme Court decreed it is permissible for the EPA to use cost benefit analysis when determining compliance with the Clean Water Act, the dissent written ...

3. Corzine signs law creating law enforcement oversight office that is result of racial profiling by N.J. state police
(N.J./State)

... a 1999 consent decree the state entered into with the U.S. Department of Justice. The Attorney General will appoint a director for the office and all law enforcement agencies operating under state ...

4. Decade-long federal oversight of state police for racial profiling ends
(N.J./State)

A U.S. District Court judge Monday dissolved the federal consent decree that guided the operation of the State Police for the last ten years following the adoption of reforms in the management and training ...

5. Corzine signs legislation designed to help end racial profiling
(N.J./State)

... the end of a decade-long consent decree entered into by the state and the U.S. Department of Justice to remedy racial profiling by troopers. Both the Attorney General's office and the State Police have ...

6. Analysis: What does the Honduran democracy and constitution provide?
(World/International)

... said things shifted on Saturday, when a presidential decree was circulated announcing that the survey would be held on Sunday. The decree was dated May 26, but had been quietly published in the Official ...

7. Assembly panel approves bill to monitor State Police
(N.J./State)

... maintain, if not exceed, the new quality and standards established under the consent decree. This new office would accomplish that goal." The bill was released 12-0 by the Budget Committee and has been ...

8. A symbol of suburban life is losing its cache
(Life/Style)

... and cul-de-sacs multiplied like rabbits across the land. But not so much any more. The Commonwealth of Virginia, for instance, has decreed that streets in future subdivisions must connect to main arteries ...

9. Xanadu Ferris wheel delayed
(N.J./State)

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree…” So wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his enigmatic poem “Kubla Khan.” But the Meadowlands Xanadu project is turning out to be more of ...

10. Iran orders 'quick and fair' appeal for jailed U.S. journalist
(World/International)

... Shahrudi issued the decree to Tehran's court system two days after Saberi was sentenced to eight years in prison. Sunday Iran's president called on the judiciary to ensure that the journalist will be ...