JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Aronson of Creighton University School of Law says that Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota's current safety crisis – now the subject of Congressional hearings – should prompt the company to address its seriously flawed system of governance more than just its public image…. The next phase in Toyota’s crisis will be the [...]
Suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty Monday to three criminal charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in the US and to commit murder in a foreign country, as well as providing material support for al Qaeda. At Monday's hearing in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York , [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Astrue v. Ratliff , the court heard arguments on whether an award of attorneys' fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) is payable to the prevailing party rather than to the party's attorneys so that is can be used [...]
UK Justice Minister Jack Straw announced Monday that the government plans to terminate to the inmate early release program initiated in June 2007 to ease prison overcrowding . In remarks before the House of Commons , Straw indicated that inmates eligible for release under the End of Custody Licence (ECL) scheme on or before March [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday accepted a $150 million dollar settlement agreement between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Bank of America (BOA) . In his ruling, Judge Jed Rakoff said he was "reluctantly agreeing" to the settlement, which he called "improved, but [...]
Two human rights groups released documents Monday confirming that planes associated with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003. The Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights released flight records obtained through a freedom of information act request to the Polish [...]
Brock N. Meeks : "Recently, tens of millions of Google Gmail users woke up to find the company had automatically placed them in a membership queue for its new social networking tool called "Buzz." No one had a say in whether or not to turn Buzz on because Google had already "turned it on" for [...]
David Dadge : "The International Press Institute (IPI), as an organisation that has campaigned for almost 60 years for press freedom, wholeheartedly welcomes the proposals made in the Icelandic parliament. By selecting the best elements from existing laws overseas and combining them in these new proposals, Iceland hopes to become a shining beacon of press [...]
Iranian authorities have released 30 political prisoners from Evin prison, opposition website Cyrusnews reported Sunday. The release is being attributed to family members of the imprisoned, who gathered outside the prison for a week demanding their relatives be freed. It is estimated that hundreds of students, activists, and journalists have been arrested as political prisoners [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Wilkins v. Gaddy that excessive force claims must be decided based on the nature of the force rather than the extent of the injury. The district court had dismissed a prisoner's excessive force claim after determining that his injuries were "de minimis." The Supreme Court found that [...]
