The Obama administration on Tuesday called for Congress to enact legislation to tighten chemical and toxin regulations. In a speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson said that existing laws were outdated and ineffective: Our oversight of the 21st century chemical industry is based on the 1976 [...]

Paris prosecutors requested Tuesday that charges of embezzlement and corruption against former French president and Paris mayor Jacques Chirac be dropped. As mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, Chirac is alleged to have placed 45 people on his office payroll who had no real jobs in Paris City Hall. The charges were filed in [...]

Suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Prosecutors from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have said that they have significant information to use against Zazi, while his lawyer has countered that the prosecution cannot prove Zazi's guilt unless they identify the other conspirators. [...]

Kindra Mohr, Boston College Law '11, was a consultant at the headquarters of the World Bank* in Washington, DC… One of the fastest growing areas in international law, and within the international development field in general, is the expansion and enforcement of anti-corruption standards. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption, along with domestic laws such [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a mandatory anthrax vaccination program for some members of the military. The appeals court affirmed a February 2008 district court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by members of the US Department of Defense (DOD) seeking to make an anthrax vaccine [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied the habeas corpus petition of suspected terrorist and US citizen Shawqi Omar , allowing him to be transferred to Iraqi custody. Omar, detained by the US military in Iraq, had filed the petition arguing that the transfer would violate laws [...]

Sean Hayes : "As most of us in Korea realize, many "peaceful" protests have too often turned violent at night. In the not so distant past, protests over the importation of US beef led to, amongst other things, numerous injuries to police officers, burned buses, Seoul-wide traffic congestion and lost revenues for businesses. Many of [...]

Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Richard Goldstone formally presented the group's findings to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Tuesday. In his opening remarks , Goldstone defended the report against criticism from Israel, which has called the report biased . Goldstone denied this allegation and said that Israel had [...]

Rempfer, et al. v. Sharfstein, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 29, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

Former Enron Broadband Services (EBS) CEO Joe Hirko was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison for misrepresenting to investors the capabilities of Enron's broadband service. Hirko pleaded guilty last October to one count of wire fraud for issuing a press release falsely claiming that EBS had integrated a new feature into its broadband service. [...]