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U.S. Legal System AlterLinks Topic Index Assange completes second year in Ecuadorean embassy in London Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has just completed his second year under permanent British police surveillance in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he sought refuge to avoid extradition to the United States via Sweden and a possible death sentence there. IRS seizes hundreds of perfectly legal bank accounts, refuses to give money back Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Internal Revenue Service has been seizing bank accounts belonging to small businesses and individuals who regularly made deposits of less than $10,000, but broke no laws. And the government is refusing to return all the money taken. The practice - called civil asset forfeiture - allows IRS agents to seize property they suspect of being tied to a crime, even if no charges are filed, and their agency is allowed to keep a share of whatever is forfeited. Mumia Abu-Jamal: Awaiting the Decision Resource Type: Article Published: 1998 AT PRESS TIME internationally renowned author and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal still waits on Pennsylvania's death row for the state Supreme Court to issue a verdict on his appeal for a new trial. There are at least five ways the court can rule: New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Obama signs police state legislation Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home. Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pill-mills" can see up to one hundred patients in a sitting. The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison." Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law? Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015). Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen. The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960 The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of the American national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019 Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 An update on political prisoners in the United States. US has a new tool to control the masses No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a troubling anti-democratic development in a nation that is quickly expanding police powers.

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