The US Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a controversial case dealing with gun rights and another dealing with a terrorism law. In McDonald v. Chicago , the Court will decide whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is incorporated as against the states by the Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges or Immunities [...]
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. said Tuesday that charges would be dropped against four University of Pittsburgh students arrested during protests of last week's Pittsburgh Group of 20 (G-20) Summit . Zappala indicated that some of the students may have been used as pawns by protesters and those looking to cause damage. Police [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to rule that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is authorized to issue decisions regarding the Nation Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when three out of five board seats are vacant. US Solicitor General Elena Kagan filed a petition for certiorari in one case [...]
The Obama administration on Tuesday called for Congress to enact legislation to tighten chemical and toxin regulations. In a speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson said that existing laws were outdated and ineffective: Our oversight of the 21st century chemical industry is based on the 1976 [...]
Paris prosecutors requested Tuesday that charges of embezzlement and corruption against former French president and Paris mayor Jacques Chirac be dropped. As mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, Chirac is alleged to have placed 45 people on his office payroll who had no real jobs in Paris City Hall. The charges were filed in [...]
Suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Prosecutors from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have said that they have significant information to use against Zazi, while his lawyer has countered that the prosecution cannot prove Zazi's guilt unless they identify the other conspirators. [...]
Kindra Mohr, Boston College Law '11, was a consultant at the headquarters of the World Bank* in Washington, DC… One of the fastest growing areas in international law, and within the international development field in general, is the expansion and enforcement of anti-corruption standards. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption, along with domestic laws such [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a mandatory anthrax vaccination program for some members of the military. The appeals court affirmed a February 2008 district court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by members of the US Department of Defense (DOD) seeking to make an anthrax vaccine [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied the habeas corpus petition of suspected terrorist and US citizen Shawqi Omar , allowing him to be transferred to Iraqi custody. Omar, detained by the US military in Iraq, had filed the petition arguing that the transfer would violate laws [...]
Sean Hayes : "As most of us in Korea realize, many "peaceful" protests have too often turned violent at night. In the not so distant past, protests over the importation of US beef led to, amongst other things, numerous injuries to police officers, burned buses, Seoul-wide traffic congestion and lost revenues for businesses. Many of [...]
