After decades of increasing incarceration of blacks, the black-to-white incarceration ratio in the United States declined by 16.9 percent for men and 53 percent for women between 2000 and 2009. The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice watchdog, said prisons still had more black males than members of any other race, but whites were the biggest racial group among female prisoners.
TAKING ON ‘TROLLS’
U.S. representatives Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) are taking on so-called "patent trolls" with the reintroduction of legislation that would force nonpracticing entities that sue for patent infringement to pay the defendants’ legal costs if they lose their lawsuits. So-called "NPEs" often have thin evidence to back their lawsuits, but companies often settle because it’s cheaper to pay to make the suit go away.
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