Software giant Microsoft has agreed to pay IBM $775 million to resolve claims stemming from the antitrust lawsuit brought by the US government in the late 1990s. As part of the agreement IBM agreed not to file any other claims for two years. Microsoft which has agreed to pay nearly $4 billion to end antitrust [...]
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AP is reporting tha President Bush will not pick a US Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor before he returns from the G8 summit in Europe July 8, according to the White House.
The UN is planning to send an investigator to Japan next week to look into charges of racism and discrimination against ethnic minority groups in the country, including ethnic Koreans and Chinese, according to a statement by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released Friday. Senegalese lawyer Doudou Diene, the UN [...]
Retirement letter of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor addressed to President George W. Bush, July 1, 2005 . Read a copy of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
More than 100 congressmen on Thursday backed a proposal for a constitutional amendment that would protect more religious expression on public property. The steps are being taken to reverse the holding in McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky in which the US Supreme Court ruled that the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in courthouses. Representative [...]
Carrying out his May threat to take over the California prison health care system , US District Judge Thelton Henderson said Thursday he will appoint an independent overseer for the medical facilities. The appointment is expected to take place at a hearing on July 8, along with a limitation of scope and duration for the [...]
US District Judge Karen Schreier Thursday granted a preliminary injunction blocking a controversial South Dakota law passed in March requiring abortion doctors to tell women that abortion ends the lives of "human beings", or face 30 days of jail time and a $200 fine. According to the judge, plaintiffs Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota [...]
AP is reporting that Sandra Day O'Connor , first woman justice on the US Supreme Court, has announced her plans to retire . Read the text of Justice O'Connor's letter of resignation addressed to President Bush. The Washington Post has more. Read this retrospective from 2001 on Justice O'Connor's Supreme Court career on the occasion [...]
Ukrainian authorities said Thursday that they have discovered who was behind the assassination attempt by poisoning directed at President Viktor Yushchenko and have traced the substance used in the plot to a facility housing banned chemical weapons. Yushchenko, who won the disputed presidential election in Ukraine last year which put hundreds of thousands in the [...]
Three more people were reported dead Thursday as a result of "Operation Drive Out Trash" or "Operation Restore Order", Zimbabwe's controversial 6-week government demolition and squatter resettlement plan, when police swept through an illegal settlement west of the capital Harare. According to the Director of Amnesty International's Africa Program Kolawole Olaniyan, Porta Farm , an [...]
