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LITIGATION & DEFENSE OF ANIMALSNJSBA Animal Law Committee   Moderator: SHERRY L. RAMSEY, ESQ. Chair, NJSBA Animal Law Committee Law Offices of Sherry Ramsey (Freehold)   Speakers: GRAYSON BARBER, ESQ. Immediate past chair of the NJSBAIndividual Rights Section Board Member of the National and NJ ACLU Lecturer, Princeton University Law Offices of Grayson Barber (Princeton)   LEN EGERT, ESQ. Attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, The Fund for Animals, and Farm Sanctuary Egert & Trakinski (New York)   LEE HALL, ESQ. Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers Law School - Newark Legal Director of Friends of Animals Court TV commentator...

Sentences Lengthy for 'Virginia Jihad' Wednesday June 16, 2004 3:01 AM By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A Maryland man convicted of traveling to Pakistan and seeking to fight with the Taliban against the United States just days after Sept. 11 was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison. Masoud Khan was one of three people sentenced Tuesday on charges they trained for holy war against the United States by playing paintball games in the Virginia woods as part of a ``jihad'' network. Prosecutors said Khan's actions were worse than the other suspects because he also traveled...

<p>With dozens of uniformed firefighters and gun-toting policemen looking down from the gallery, the state Assembly conducted its first extensive debate and series of votes on the state's immense budget crisis Tuesday.</p> <p>The four-hour-plus session was, for the most part, what one grizzled veteran of the Capitol termed a "PBD," shorthand for "pointless budget drill." Democrats presented a series of bills that they said would help close the multibillion-dollar budget gap by cutting spending and raising taxes on cars, and Republicans, for the most part, opposed them as either cutting too little or taxing too much. But since Democrats outnumber the Republicans, all the bills passed handily after the requisite amount of partisan hand-wringing and finger-pointing.</p>