The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday preliminarily approved applications by independent investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to convert to bank holding companies, which would put the banks under Federal Reserve regulation, grant them increased access to bank funds and allow them to build their deposit bases. The move will place both companies, which [...]
South African President Thabo Mbeki insisted in an official resignation speech Sunday that allegations of his interference with the judiciary in the context of the Jacob Zuma case were incorrect. Top ANC officials called for Mbeki's resignation Friday, and on Saturday Mbeki said that he would resign . Mbeki said Sunday: I would like to [...]
A US federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction requiring US Vice President Dick Cheney to preserve all his official records pending resolution of a lawsuit alleging that his office has failed to maintain records as required by law. In an opinion released Saturday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says "the whole world is watching" efforts in the United States – highlighted at a recent conference at Andover – to bring U.S. high-level civilians and/or generals to justice for crimes committed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars…. On September 13-14, 2008, [...]
Pakistani Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar swore in four previously ousted judges as new members of the country's Supreme Court Saturday, bringing the number of the judges on the reconstituted court to 29. Justice Sardar Mohammad Raza Khan and Justice Nasirul Mulk were members of the top court when they were effectively dismissed in November [...]
Stephen Soldz : "In results released this week, the members of the American Psychological Association overwhelmingly approved a referendum repudiating the APA's years-long policy encouraging psychologists to aid interrogations in the U.S. detention facilities, including Guantanamo and the CIA's "black sites." The referendum states that psychologists may not serve in these sites unless they work [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ruled that the civil rights of former Army Special Forces officer Diane Schroer were violated after a job offer to serve as the senior terrorism research analyst at the Library of Congress was rescinded following Schroer's disclosure to her future supervisor [...]
The Pentagon on Friday announced that US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann , the controversial legal advisor to the US military commissions at Guantanamo and supervisor of the Office of Military Commissions-Prosecution (OMC-P), has been reassigned to the newly-created position of director of operations of the Office of Military Commissions. As director of operations, [...]
Diane J. Schroer v. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, US District Court for the District of Columbia, September 20, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Thabo Mbeki announced Saturday that he would resign as president of South Africa in the wake of allegations that he had interfered in a corruption case against political rival and current African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma . Earlier this month Judge Chris Nicholson effectively dismissed the latest case against Zuma on the grounds that [...]
