UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he is concerned about the status of ongoing discussions between the UN and Lebanon on the proposed UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. Ban said : It is important that the Security Council has decided to [...]
The "no-fly" terrorist watch list now used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is being redrafted and will likely be cut in half, according to testimony given by TSA Administrator Kip Hawley during a Wednesday Senate Commerce Committee hearing. Hawley said that "To assure the accuracy of the No-Fly list itself, we will shortly conclude [...]
Retail Industry Leaders Association v. James D. Fielder, US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, January 17, 2007 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts the Maryland Fair Share Health Care Fund Act requiring Wal-Mart to spend the equivalent of eight percent of each individual store's payroll on employee health insurance. In a 2-1 decision, [...]
Walter Forbes, former Chairman of Cendant Corp. , the huge New York-based company that owns Ramada, Howard Johnson, Avis, Coldwell Banker and Century 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years and seven months in prison pursuant to a October 2006 conviction arising from a multi-billion dollar accounting fraud in the 1990s. Forbes was found guilty [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Wednesday that three former Croatian generals will begin their war crimes trial at The Hague in May. Ante Gotovina , Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac have all pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity and war crimes in connection with the killing of Croatian Serb [...]
European Commission investigators have again asked EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes to formally charge computer chip maker Intel with antitrust violations, according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday. In October, investigators first announced that they had gathered enough evidence to prosecute Intel on antitrust charges, and brought their information to Kroes, but an internal [...]
Ben Davis : "Charles 'Cully' Stimson has had a hard week. On January 11, 2007 he made shocking comments on the pro bono lawyers who are working on behalf of Gitmo detainees, calling for corporate CEOs to blacklist the firms at which these lawyers work. As we all saw, an uproar ensued and today he [...]
The Bush Administration will from now on submit all domestic surveillance requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for review and approval under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to a letter sent Wednesday by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The letter explained that the a member [...]
A US military judge ruled Tuesday that 1st Lt. Ehren Watada , a US Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq because he felt the war is 'unlawful,' cannot argue that point in his upcoming court-martial. Lt. Col. John Head further ruled that Watada may not raise a free speech defense, as soldiers do not [...]
