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8 Oct 2015, 7:00 am
Unlike Italy and Norway and many other countries, Israel does not recognize civil marriages. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 1:37 am
[JURIST] Egyptian officials on Sunday released from detention Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia profile], the man at the heart of Italian judicial proceedings against US and Italian intelligence agents implicated in his alleged 2003 kidnapping [JURIST news archive; WP timeline] and extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] from Milan. [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 12:33 pm
[JURIST] Some leftist Italian lawmakers belonging to the Union Coalition [Wikipedia backgrounder] of Italian prime minister Romano Prodi [official profile] have expressed dissatisfaction with a controversial sentence-reduction bill that has been extended to include prisoners convicted of fraud and other white-collar crimes. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 5:54 am
Reuters reports that Italian consumer group Adusbef plans to bring a class suit against Italian banks for calculating compound interest on the initial loan plus interest that accumulates when the money is due. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 9:20 am
[JURIST] The Italian Senate [official website, in Italian] on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill [materials, in Italian] that would allow cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], to postpone criminal proceedings against them on the grounds that they would interfere with official duties. [read post]
21 Feb 2022, 5:23 pm
AP: “In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 9:43 am
[JURIST] Italian authorities Monday began dismantling illegal immigrant camps around Rome heavily populated by members of the Roma minority ("gypsies") [JURIST news archive] following the alleged weekend rape of a 14-year old girl by East European immigrants which led to public outcry and vigilante reprisals. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 3:08 pm
[JURIST] Italian Justice Minister Clemente Mastella [official website, in Italian] has said that he will refuse to vote for a proposed law [JURIST report] that would give same-sex couples [JURIST news archive] many of the rights that heterosexual couples enjoy. [read post]
20 Jan 2004, 6:49 am
In Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Italian government is promising reforms of its financial regulatory system as the Parmalat scandal widens. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 10:25 am
[JURIST] A Milan prosecutor charged former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] with false accounting on Monday, alleging that his broadcasting company, Mediaset, [corporate website, in Italian] incorrectly reported its costs in purchasing television rights to US films in a ploy to lower taxes in 2000. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 6:07 am
[JURIST] An Italian court on Wednesday found three Google [corporate website] executives guilty of privacy violations for allowing a video depicting bullying to be posted on its website. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 6:23 am
[JURIST] An Italian court on Monday reopened the tax fraud trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official profile, in Italian; BBC profile], but immediately adjourned it until January as a result of official business. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 10:12 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for Nicolo Pollari, the former head of the Italian Intelligence and Security Services (SISMI) [official website], moved Monday to stop Pollari's trial on charges that he was involved in the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping [JURIST news archive; WP timeline] and rendition of Egyptian cleric Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia profile]. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 3:48 am
[JURIST] An Italian court on Tuesday sentenced David Mills [JURIST news archive], a British barrister and former lawyer to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official profile, in Italian; BBC profile], to four-and-a-half years in prison for accepting a $600,000 bribe to give false testimony [JURIST report] at two trials in 1997 and 1998 involving Berlusconi broadcasting company Mediaset [ [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 5:26 am
[JURIST] Milan judges presiding over the tax fraud trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] suspended the trial Monday while consulting [ASCA report, in Italian] with a Constitutional Court [official website] on the legitimacy of a new law that Berlusconi has invoked to postpone criminal proceedings against him for 18 months. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 6:04 am
[JURIST] An Italian appeals court on Friday upheld the convictions of 15 police officers, prison guards, and medical staff found guilty [JURIST report] of abusing anti-globalization protesters taken into custody during the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
25 Jul 2007, 11:49 am
[JURIST] An Italian judge Wednesday indicted approximately 20 former Parmalat SpA [corporate website; JURIST news archive] executives, including founder Calisto Tanzi [NNDB profile] and former CFO Fausto Tonna [BBC report], for their role in the collapse of the Italian dairy giant. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 8:29 am
[JURIST] Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alemo [official website, in Italian] criticized the US Saturday for failing to claim responsibility for the March 2005 shooting of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 2:14 am
[JURIST] Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] deployed about 3,000 military troops [press release and materials, in Italian] to major Italian cities on Monday in a movement designed to reduce crime throughout the country. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 3:27 am
[JURIST] The Italian Chamber of Deputies [official website, in Italian], the country's lower house of parliament, approved legislation [PDF text, in Italian; Draft Law 1442 materials] Thursday that would grant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and other high-ranking officials immunity from prosecution while in office. [read post]
