Lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan filed a petition of certiorari on Monday, asking the US Supreme Court to block military tribunals for terror suspects. The high court had once before denied cert on...
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Third Interim Report, Independent Inquiry Committee, August 8, 2005 [accusing former head of the UN Oil-for-Food Program Benon Sevan of taking almost $150,000 in bribes and urging UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to lift his UN-granted immunity for the "purposes...
Leading Monday's corporations and securities law brief, Warren Buffett company Berkshire Hathaway has revealed that the management company is being investigated by the SEC and the state of New York, among others. In a filing with...
Leading Monday's states brief, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request to suspend an Iowa state law that prohibits certain sex offenders from living within 2000 feet of a school or day care...
Argentinian police announced on Monday the arrest of Milan Lukic, a former Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander who in July was convicted in absentia by a Serbian war crimes court and sentenced to 20 years for his role...
A new Florida policy that took effect on June 1 bans sex offenders from public hurricane shelters if they are under state supervision and not permitted near children. Instead, they...
According to US military leaders, the Pentagon has established new contingency plans for domestic military deployment in the event of a terrorist attack, but the procedures may challenge traditional doctrines constraining military roles in national law enforcement. The plans...
An civil liberties oversight panel created by Congress last year in response to a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission has yet to meet almost eight months after its inception. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board [CRS...
A new report released Monday by a UN panel accused Benon Sevan , the former head of the UN Oil-for-Food Program , of taking almost $150,000 in bribes. The Third Interim Report [PDF text;...
President George W. Bush Monday signed into law a massive energy bill while in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 1,725-page legislation , finalized after weeks of compromise between the US House and Senate , provides $14.5 billion...
