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13
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20
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  • May 10, 2012
    Margulies on Weapons in Stuffed Toy
    From WJAR, NBC 10: "Gun in toys at RI airport was custody dispute" by Katie Davis WARWICK, R.I., May 09, 2012:  A professor of national security law at Roger Williams University told NBC 10 on Wednesday that airport security officials did their job well when they found gun parts and ammunition hidden inside stuffed animals at T.F. Green Airport."Here you had Mickey Mouse involved. But what we've learned over the last 10 years is that every terrorist plot seems like Mickey Mouse, until it...
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  • March 01, 2012
    Margulies on Immigration Law Ethics
    From the ABA JOURNAL: "Immigration Law Raises a Unique Mix of Ethics Issues for Lawyers" by G. M. Filisko March 1, 2012: Immigration law isn’t necessarily a haven for unscrupulous practitioners. But it often seems that way, say lawyers in the field. Generally, state disciplinary agencies don’t track complaints and actions against lawyers on the basis of their fields of practice. “Like every other board of professional responsibility, most of our complaints are related to criminal or domestic...
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  • January 24, 2012
    Margulies on Rumsfeld Lawsuits
    From the ABA Journal: "Unknown Knowns: Torture Suits Against Rumsfeld May Revive a 40-Year-Old Liability Case" by Leslie A. Gordon Feb 1, 2012 - Asked in 2002 whether there was any evidence that Iraq had supplied terrorists with weapons of mass destruction, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously opined: “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are...
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  • January 16, 2012
    Goldstein & Margulies on Guantanamo
    From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "R.I. lawyers urge action on Guantanamo detainees: Their former client is among the last being held at detention camp in Cuba" by Katie Mulvaney, Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, Jan. 15, 2012 –– Northern Alliance forces captured Mullah Norullah Noori in 2001, after a days-long battle in Northern Afghanistan. Ten years later, Noori remains one of 171 men still held by the United States in a detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [...] His former lawyers, Patricia A...
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