Wachovia Corp. , the fourth largest bank in the US, acknowledged Wednesday that two of its predecessor banks owned slaves prior to the Civil War and apologized for the practice. Wachovia had contracted with historical research firm The History Factory to look into the pasts of acquired banks, an increasingly common practice as legislative initiatives [...]
About 70 animal rights protestors marched and chanted in protest outside a Trenton New Jersey courtroom Wednesday as the trial of seven activists charged with domestic terrorism began. The activists are all members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty , a group opposed to the animal testing practices of British company Huntingdon Life Sciences which has [...]
After the second No to the EU constitution in four days was handed down by Dutch voters Wednesday , European leaders are struggling to keep the charter alive. Current EU President and Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker has said that the double rejection from France and the Netherlands has put Europe in "a dangerous [...]
United States v. Ameline, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, June 1, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
AP is reporting that President Bush intends to nominate Congressman Christopher Cox (R-CA) as the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Republican officials. Current SEC Chairman William Donaldson announced earlier Wednesday that he would be stepping down effective June 30 .
HB 1041, Women's Health Care, signed into law by Florida Governor Jeb Bush on May 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
AFL-CIO v. Chao, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, May 31, 2005 . Excerpt: Because section 208 limits the Secretary's authority to promulgate rules requiring financial reporting to what she determines is "necessary to prevent" circumvention or evasion of a union's Title II reporting requirements, we hold that to the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that federal inmates in western states within its jurisdiction may challenge their sentences. The case, United States v. Ameline , follows the US Supreme Court ruling earlier this year in United States v. Booker where the high court ruled that federal judges were not [...]
Chile's National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, known familiarly as the Valech Commission, released a new report Wednesday indicating that children under the age of 12 were tortured during the rule of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet . The commission was created in 2003 to gather testimony of persons imprisoned and tortured under [...]
A lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Wednesday that he has secured opinions from several international lawyers concluding that the US government's terror-related charges against Hicks have no foundation in international law. Hicks, whose trial before a US military commission has been suspended pending the outcome of a process appeal by another [...]
