The US Department of Justice filed an appeal Tuesday against a November 28 ruling by US District Judge James Robertson declaring that "the Treasury Department’s failure to design and issue paper currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired individuals violates section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act." Section 504 provides that no disabled [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that new instructions to federal prosecutors not to demand privileged documents as a means of inducing corporate co-operation with investigations may help preserve useful corporate structures while recognizing that threats of wholesale corporate prosecutions may not prevent wrongdoing by corporate officers… Deputy [...]
Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations, US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, December 12, 2006. Read the full text of the memorandum . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Queen on the application of Gentle and Clarke v. The Prime Minister et al., Court of Appeal, Mr. Justice Collins, December 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Members of Thailand's National People's Assembly (NPA) will meet next week to select a preliminary list of NPA members who will participate on a committee to draft a new constitution, but a senior Thai military official said Tuesday that only one or two military officers would be included in the latter group. One hundred of [...]
The Lebanese cabinet Tuesday sent the country's National Assembly a draft plan to establish a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. The cabinet approved the draft late last month despite resignations by all six of its pro-Syrian members. On Saturday, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud [...]
US Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) announced Tuesday that they have sent the FBI a letter signed by thirty-three members of Congress asking it to release information from its probe into the 2001 anthrax attacks , in which letters containing anthrax spores were sent to senators and news organizations, leading to [...]
US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will no longer encourage corporations to turn over confidential records to officials investigating corporate fraud . The new McNulty Memorandum revises portions of the 2003 Thompson Memorandum , which included business record turnover as a factor prosecutors could use in determining [...]
Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, recommended Tuesday that a new agency be created to review national security activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and that new [...]
Former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam was found guilty of genocide Tuesday at the conclusion of a 12-year in absentia trial. Mengistu and 72 other former officials were charged with genocide, imprisonment, homicide, and illegal confiscation of property for crimes committed during the "Red Terror" , where thousands of Mengistu's political opponents were executed. Ethiopia's [...]
