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News Tenth Circuit holds consultant liable for false SEC filings
Tenth Circuit holds consultant liable for false SEC filings
Joe Shaulis
September 3, 2008 12:20:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a non-employee consultant may be held liable for misstatements or omissions in periodic financial reports filed with the US Securities...

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US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released Arab activist Sami Al-Arian after five years in federal custody. The former University of South Florida (USF) computer science professor...

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The Mauritanian Parliament has elected eight of its members to a High Court set to try deposed President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on corruption charges. Legislators chose four National Assembly members and four...

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Tuesday concluding that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales violated DOJ regulations by storing...

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has placed senior officials of the intelligence service Abin on suspension pending investigations of a report that its agents wiretapped a variety of high-ranking...

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Thailand's Election Commission on Tuesday voted to recommend that the country's ruling People's Power Party (PPP) be disbanded for election fraud allegedly committed by one of its former top officers. The five-member...

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The administration of Bolivian President Evo Morales is refusing to recognize a National Electoral Court (CNE) decision suspending a constitutional referendum set for Dec. 7 . Nationalization Minister Hector Arce said [ABI...

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South African judge Navanethem Pillay on Monday assumed the role of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing departing commissioner Louise Arbour . Pillay will hold the office for four years, and prior...

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Spain judge launches probe to create Civil War victim list
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Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon on Monday began an investigation to assemble a definitive registry of the tens of thousands of victims of the Spanish Civil War and the regime of Gen. Francisco...

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Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is seeking to reopen corruption cases against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother, said the NAB's Deputy Prosecutor General Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta on Tuesday. Bhutta...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First meeting of the US Supreme Court

On February 1, 1790, the Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time. The meeting was held at the Merchants' Exchange Building in New York City, then the national capital. Chief Justice John Jay presided over the first Court with five Associate Justices: James Wilson, John Blair, James Iredell, William Cushing, and John Rutledge. However, due to the limitations of 18th-century transportation technology, the meeting was postponed by Jay until the following day. The first meeting was held primarily to organize the Supreme Court. The Justices did not hear their first actual case, Chrisholm v. Georgia, until 1792.

Sir Edward Coke born

Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and author of law reports and commentaries (including, most famously, Coke on Littleton), was born on February 1, 1552. Learn more about Sir Edward Coke.

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