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  1. The Right Coast

    7 Detained Over Gas Canisters Found Near Paris’ Notre Dame – The New York Times

    By Thomas A. Smith

    PARIS Three women radicals with apparent plans for "imminent" violence were detained Thursday after a standoff with French police, as part of a terrorism investigation into six gas canisters found…

  2. Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog

    Second Circuit reverses $655 Million verdict against PLO & PA for lack of personal jurisdiction

    By Adam Steinman

    Today the Second Circuit issued its decision in Sokolow v. Palestine Liberation Organization. The claims in the case were brought by eleven American families against the Palestine Liberation Organization and…

  3. Drug & Device Law

    DDL Summer Vacation: Another Sequel

    By Stephen McConnell

    This is our vacation week, so it’s time once again to play the game of "Where in the World is Stevie Mac?"  Last year, we wanted to visit a place…

  4. The Right Coast

    Intel: ISIS Hid Among Refugee Hordes Flooding Europe

    By Thomas A. Smith

    In Germany last week, the vice president of Bavaria s intelligence-gathering agency, Manfred Hauser, announced ISIS hit squads had entered Europe with the flood of migrants that came across the…

  5. The Right Coast

    Trump says Americans charged with terrorism could be tried in Guantanamo | Miami Herald

    By Thomas A. Smith

    A President Donald Trump might push for Americans accused of terrorism to be tried in military tribunal at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Republican nominee told…

  6. Nonprofit Law Prof Blog

    Charities & the Risk of Supporting Terrorism: One Step Forward, One Step Back

    By nonprofitlawprof

    Since 9/11 the relationships between charities and government anti-terrorism agencies have been strained, with government officials wary that the cross-border movements of money and people that many charities facilitate were vulnerable…

  7. The Right Coast

    2 Benghazi Victims’ Parents Sue Hillary Clinton for Wrongful Death : NPR

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The parents of two Americans killed in Benghazi, Libya, are suing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for wrongful death, alleging the 2012 attack "was directly and proximately caused" by the…

  8. The Right Coast

    Belgian police officers injured in machete attack

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Two policewomen were attacked and wounded with a machete by an attacker who shouted Allahu Akbar outside a police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi on Saturday.via www.telegraph.co.ukAllahu akbar…

  9. The Right Coast

    Islamist terror could kill off the West’s liberal values

    By Thomas A. Smith

    To British ears particularly, the public utterances of the French president and his officials seemed bizarrely out of focus with the actual bloody event. Even to the French, the idea…

  10. Media Law Prof Blog

    When Is Media Coverage of Terror Attacks Providing Information? And When It Is Publicity, Or Bias? UK Readers Respond To the Question

    By Media Law Prof Blog

    The Guardian asks its readers to consider the question of how the media should respond to and cover terrorist attacks. Could reporting be publicity or bias? Some UK reader views…