One of the world's largest oil tanker companies was sentenced to pay a $27.8 million criminal fine for intentionally polluting the waters near five cities, the US Justice Department and the US Attorney's Office in Boston announced Wednesday. Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (OSG) pleaded guilty Wednesday in the US District Court for Massachusetts , admitting [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Wednesday overturned the conviction of James Tobin , President Bush's 2004 campaign chairman for New England. Tobin was convicted for his involvement in jamming phone lines to block Democratic voting drives during the 2002 Senate election in New Hampshire, which was won by Republican candidate [...]
Her Excellency Ambassador Elena Poptodorova : "The tragedy of the Bulgarian medics in Libya began on 9 February 1999 when the Libyan authorities detained a group of 23 Bulgarian medics working at the "Al-Fatih" hospital in Benghazi. Six of them were held incommunicado for several months, while the others were released. The six Bulgarians (one [...]
Jackson Chin : "This federal lawsuit raises novel issues of law, e.g., whether municipal ordinances that seek to regulate and punish business and property owners who provide shelter to illegal aliens are federally preempted and violate the U.S. Constitution, and a host of federal statutes and state laws. The bench trial opened on Monday, March [...]
Amnesty International urged the US to abandon the military commission system and try Guantanamo Bay detainees in the federal courts in a report released Thursday, just days before the US military is poised to begin military commission proceedings against David Hicks . Amnesty's report – Justice delayed and justice denied? Trials under the Military Commissions [...]
The Community Rights Counsel (CRC) said Wednesday that the new Judicial Conference Policy on Judges' Attendance at Privately Funded Educational Programs has not yet produced any public disclosures of travel expenses on judicial websites. According to the Judicial Conference: The Judicial Conference adopted a private seminars disclosure reporting policy that requires educational program providers and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that despite the still-uncertain future of the European Constitution, the 50th anniversary of the treaty founding the European Union is an occasion to celebrate the most successful interstate venture in modern times… On 25 [...]
A Moscow court on Wednesday found Maksim V. Kashulinsky, publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, guilty of defamation for saying publicly that the subject of an upcoming piece had filed a lawsuit to make changes to the story, and that Kashulinsky thought the lawsuit was a violation of media freedom and amounted to [...]
Iram Janjua : "The number of practising Muslims in Britain and Europe is increasing with some women preparing to manifest a more stricter affirmation of their religious identity by choosing to wear the niqab (face veil) as opposed to the more common hijab (headscarf) and this is where the controversy lies. Here, I do not [...]
A third US soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya area last March. Pfc. Bryan Howard pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit rape and premeditated murder and conspiracy to obstruct justice in a case that has [...]
