The US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Wednesday voted 41-28 for passage of the Investor Protection Act . Among the regulations included in the bill are an enhancement of powers for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) , additional protections for whistleblowers, and establishment of fiduciary duties for brokers and dealers. Bill sponsor [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Thursday that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be appointed counsel to represent him in the event that he does not appear in court. The ICTY announced the decision in response to Karadzic's boycott of war crimes proceedings against him. Karadzic was boycotting the [...]
Sri Lanka's Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka returned home Thursday without being questioned by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about alleged war crimes. Fonseka, a US permanent resident with a diplomatic passport and a Green Card, had traveled to the US to visit his daughters in Oklahoma. The Sri Lankan government [...]
Two senior Indonesian law enforcement officials resigned Thursday after being linked to an alleged plot to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commisions (KPK) , an anti-corruption agency. Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hakim Ritonga and Chief Detective Susno Duadjia were mentioned by name in a tape recorded conversation about a plan to fabricate charges against KPK leaders. [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday announced that he will ask the ICC to open a formal inquiry into violence perpetrated in the wake of Kenya's 2007 presidential elections . Following a meeting to discuss the ICC inquiry with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga , Moreno-Ocampo said [...]
The New York Attorney General on Wednesday filed an antitrust suit against Intel , alleging that the microprocessor manufacturer engaged in illegal conduct to further its dominance in the marketplace. The complaint alleges that Intel obtained exclusive contracts from manufacturers in exchange for large payments. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo claims that many of these agreements [...]
An Illinois Cook County Circuit Court judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order on the Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995 only hours after the Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board had ruled to begin enforcing the law. The order was sought by the the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU-IL) in support of [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court set dates Wednesday for two inmates to be executed by lethal injection , despite a temporary stay on executions in the state. Michael Bueke is scheduled to be executed on May 13 of next year, and Richard Nields is scheduled to be executed on June 10. Ohio's lethal injection process is [...]
Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, and Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the 18th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union, presented by Sir David Edward at the University of Pittsburgh… Kristine Long Rather fortuitously, I was able to go with Professor Ron Brand, Director of the [...]
Researchers in Sarajevo on Tuesday unveiled a Google Earth tool mapping the sites of war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian genocide . The Bosnian war crimes atlas was compiled by the Research and Documentation Center (RDC) , a Sarajevo-based research organization tasked with collecting data regarding the events of the three-year conflict. RDC director [...]
