The Court of Appeals of Virginia , the state's second-highest court, upheld the nation's first felony conviction for computer spamming on Tuesday, ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming statute does not violate the First Amendment or the so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, and is not unconstitutionally vague. On appeal, admitted spammer Jeremy Jaynes argued that the Virginia statute [...]
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the defeated Mexican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that he refused to recognize the officially-declared victory of president-elect Felipe Calderon and confirmed plans to establish a parallel government representing what he called a "true, authentic republic." Lopez Obrador rejected Tuesday's decision by the Federal Electoral Tribunal to certify Calderon as the [...]
Andrew Wood : "Cambodia's role in the Textile and Garment (T&G) industry has only recently developed into the nation's largest export industry. With Cambodia's first garment factories opened in 1994, the industry is relatively young, especially when compared to its neighbors such as China. Over 70% of Cambodia's textiles are exported to the United States, [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy underwent a "routine" stent replacement procedure at Washington Hospital Center on Saturday after complaining of chest pains, spokesperson Kathy Arberg revealed in a Tuesday statement . The 70-year-old Kennedy had a similar procedure performed in November, and has returned to work at the court. Although a stent is used [...]
The Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved a draft of a bill to bar inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from entering the country if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions on Iran for continuing to enrich uranium past the August 31 deadline imposed by Resolution 1696 . Details of the bill are being [...]
New York Times researcher Zhao Yan is appealing the three-year prison sentence he received last week from a Beijing court that convicted him of fraud. Zhao was charged with accepting $2,500 from an official, and his appeal maintains that he was acting as a reporter when the incident took place. Zhao lawyer Guan Anping also [...]
Danish police Tuesday charged seven men with planning a terror attack in the country after arresting them and two others in a raid on an Odense suburb populated largely by immigrants. Justice Minister Lene Espersen told AP that "the clues police found indicate that they were very likely planning an attack somewhere in Denmark." Danish [...]
US Bankruptcy Judge Adlai Hardin Tuesday approved a request by Delta Airlines to end its pension plan for pilots. Delta reached a settlement with a group of retired pilots on Monday, agreeing to pay $500,000 for fees and expenses if the group ceased its opposition to Delta's proposal to terminate the plan. In order to [...]
A lawsuit by former Australian Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib against the Australian government could become the first court challenge to new security secrecy laws passed in 2004 . Australian prosecutors say that some of the evidence used in any trial of Habib's case may be secret, but Justice Rodney Madgwick noted in a preliminary hearing [...]
Two owners of a Louisiana nursing home who were charged last year with negligent homicide for the deaths of 34 people in flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina have sued a number of state and local government officials claiming that they did not evacuate residents at the home before the storm landed, the attorney for the [...]
