Former US lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for tax evasion, fraud and conspiracy. Judge Ellen S. Huvelle of the US District Court for the District of Columbia imposed less than the maximum sentence of 12.5 years but more than the three years and three months recommended by prosecutors from [...]
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has renewed its call for an investigation into the actions of law enforcement officials at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Minnesota this week. The ACLU alleges that officers in St. Paul conducted "mass arrests, police raids on private homes and several journalists" in possible violation of First and [...]
Canadian-based Teck Cominco Ltd. asked US District Court Judge John Sedwick Wednesday to approve a $120M settlement agreement with six Eskimo plaintiffs from the Alaskan village of Kivalino. The agreement stems from a 2002 lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Alaska by residents living near the company's Red Dog Mine, [...]
Pakistani lawyers demanding that the government reinstate judges ousted last year by former President Pervez Musharraf clashed with police in Islamabad on Thursday, according to media reports. Television images showed police beating the lawyers with batons outside Parliament, in a confrontation that reportedly began after an estimated 100 demonstrators tried to enter the nearby Supreme [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged two former brokers for Credit-Suisse with defrauding clients of $1 billion by selling subprime securities that they represented as being backed by government-guaranteed student loans. The SEC complaint, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , accuses Tzolov and [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the EU violated the fundamental property rights of a Saudi business and a Swedish foundation linked to al-Qaeda by freezing their assets without giving them a hearing. The EU's highest court on Wednesday reversed a 2005 Court of First Instance decision dismissing complaints brought by Yassin [...]
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in US District Court for the Northern District of Texas challenges the latest version of a Farmers Branch municipal ordinance which prohibits illegal immigrants from occupying leased property. In the lawsuit against the Dallas suburb, several landlords and a former City Council member seek to enjoin enforcement of Ordinance 2952 , [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.), a former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters and currently a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that Salim Hamdan's recent military commission trial – in which he was called as an expert witness for the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday ruled on a suit brought by several Kentucky environmental groups, including a chapter of the Sierra Club , against Stephen L. Johnson in his official capacity as Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) . The plaintiffs filed suit under the Clean Water [...]
