Domestic surveillance DOJ FOIA compliance order [US DC] News
Domestic surveillance DOJ FOIA compliance order [US DC]

EPIC v. DOJ, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, February 16, 2006 [ordering the US Department of Justice to respond to a FOIA request filed by the Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC) and produce documents related to the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program].

Read the full text of the opinion. 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).