UK detention of asylum seekers report [Amnesty International] News
UK detention of asylum seekers report [Amnesty International]

Seeking Asylum is Not a Crime: Detention of people who have sought asylum, Amnesty International, June 20, 2005 [report detailing and assailing the UK's detention of asylum seekers]. Excerpt:

Amnesty International's report highlights the denial of justice suffered by many people as a result of the fact that their detention is in many cases inappropriate, unnecessary, disproportionate and, therefore, unlawful. Whether at the beginning or the end of the asylum-determination process, the individuals concerned may be taken into detention on the basis that a bed is available within the detention estate, rather than on considerations of necessity, proportionality and appropriateness to detain them.

Read the full text of the report here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Standard Oil incorporated

On January 10, 1870, John Davison Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. Rockefeller's corporation would grow to achieve a virtual monopoly over oil production in the United States. Standard Oil's dominance lasted until the corporation was split into 34 separate companies in 1911 after the Supreme Court found the company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The rise of Standard Oil made Rockefeller America's first billionaire and eventually the richest man in the world. Read the text of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey vs. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910).