17 May 2012
Posted by Matt Ehling On May 16th, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York temporarily enjoined the United States government from enforcing the military detention provisions of the 2012 NDAA. Congress included the controversial detention provisions in last year’s defense authorization bill as a way to codify Bush-era case law that flowed [...]
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14 May 2012
Posted by Matt Ehling As part of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley’s investigation into the use of federal Medicaid dollars, the Senator’s staff sought documents from the Minnesota Department of Human Services through a data practices request. PRM has obtained the results of Grassley’s request, and has posted the resulting cache of e-mail correspondence. Select messages [...]
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06 May 2012
Posted by Matt Ehling On May 3rd, PRM recorded a new episode in our “Open Source” policy discussion series. The forthcoming episode will focus on recent civil liberties controversies, including the detention provisions of the 2012 NDAA, and the criminal investigation of speech-related activity. Guests were Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, and [...]
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06 May 2012
Posted by Matt Ehling Two years after Saint Paul attorney David Feinwachs made his initial calls for greater transparency in Minnesota’s public health programs, the state legislature passed legislation that introduced third-party auditing into Minnesota’s managed care plans. Governor Mark Dayton signed the bill into law on April 30th. The first audits will apply to [...]
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