http://www.windycitylawfirm.com Chicago Lawyer Blog Dealing With Personal Injury, DUI, License Suspensions & Revocations, and Expungements Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:21:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.windycitylawfirm.com/chicago-dui-news/woe-canada-dui-laws-target/ http://www.windycitylawfirm.com/chicago-dui-news/woe-canada-dui-laws-target/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:57:19 +0000 James Fabbrini http://www.windycitylawfirm.com/?p=3318

Our Chicago DUI Lawyers have posted in the past about the increasingly harsh DUI laws in Canada.  See Dangerous New DUI Laws In Canada and Oh (No), Canada! Parliament Considers Random DUI Stops. Check out the following story about Alberta’s latest move to punish drivers BELOW the .08 limit. Does new law miss target on drunk driving? Edmonton [...]

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Our Chicago DUI Lawyers have long argued that Breathalyzers are faulty. See Faulty Breathalyzer Leads to Nearly 400 Improper Convictions, More Faulty Breathalyzers Used To Convict People Of DUI, DUI Breathalyzers Found To Be Faulty, and A Decade Worth Of Bogus Breathalyzers Tests Discovered. No surprise to us that, once again, hundreds of DUI Arrests [...]

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Our Chicago DUI Lawyers were shocked to learn of the latest assault on people’s right in the name of DUI.  Kane County plans to roll out an alcohol testing program for people convicted of DUI. Kane County tests former DUI offenders 8 times each over holiday weekend Holiday testing program believed to be a first for Illinois [...]

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More hysteria on the way for those accused of DUI in New York.  Our Chicago DUI Lawyers note the new law coming into effect today for those convicted of drunk driving in New York. NY requirement for ignition interlocks in effect ALBANY, N.Y. — Driving a car won’t be as simple as inserting a key into [...]

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Our Chicago DUI Lawyers found this interesting news item this afternoon regarding the neo-prohibitionist group MADD. Mothers Against Drunk Driving receives “D’” score – By Sheldon Dutes GOOSE CREEK, SC (WCSC) – Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is in the hot seat after a dismal score from the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP). The [...]

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As our Chicago DUI Attorneys have warned in the past, MADD, in its never ending quest to put driving in a police state, pushes for even more restrictions on your driving privileges. MADD Mad More Ignition Locks Aren’t in Use by KYW’s John Ostapkovich The New Jersey Legislature has passed a bill requiring breath test devices on the [...]

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Our Chicago DUI Attorneys have learned that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is now apparently taking orders from MADD.  Quinn, who initially ordered about 1,000 low-level, nonviolent offenders to be placed on home detention under a new program aiming to save taxpayers $5 million a year reversed his course on 18 inmates in custody for felony [...]

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Our Chicago DUI lawyers found this interesting app for all you iPhone users out there.  And you’ll never guess who’s against it. DENVER, Colorado — How many drinks are too many to drive? As the saying goes, “there’s an app for that.” Last month, The Colorado Department of Transportation launched its ‘R-U Buzzed?’ blood-alcohol content calculator for [...]

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We’ve long heard the cry that the idea behind getting drunk drivers off the road is the danger that they present to the community.  Never mind activities such as texting while driving have been proven to be far more dangerous than having a couple of glasses of wine with dinner,  groups such as MADD are [...]

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Kansas is looking to revamp their DUI Court system and MADD is all over this. Kansas is looking for ways to improve its drunk driving laws and one of the options the state is looking at is a specialized court system that would only handle DUI cases. The state’s DUI commission is looking at all kinds of [...]

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