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13 Aug 2008, 2:21 am
[JURIST] The US Coast Guard [official website] on Wednesday resumed its investigatory hearings into a collision between a barge and a tanker [Washington Post report] which caused the spilling of approximately 400,000 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River on July 23, resulting in the temporary closure of a 100-mile stretch of the waterway. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 5:29 am
[JURIST] The chief justice of the Russian Supreme Court [official website, in Russian] on Thursday ordered a review of the 2003 arrest of Platon Lebedev [defense website], business partner of former Yukos oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
14 Apr 2005, 2:37 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that a Texas businessman and citizens of Bulgaria and Britain have been indicted in connection with the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program [official website] scandal according to US Attorney David N. [read post]
19 Aug 2005, 6:38 am
[JURIST] Grundfos [corporate website], a Danish company that produces industrial pumps, admitted Friday that two employees paid kickbacks to authorities in Saddam Hussein's government under the UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 11:41 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday that Exxon Mobil [corporate website] owes interest on the more than $500 million in punitive damages awarded against it following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill [EPA backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 3:30 am
[JURIST] The US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California [official website] filed charges [PDF text; press release] on Monday against San Francisco Bay maritime pilot John Joseph Cota for allegedly causing the negligent discharge of approximately 58,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil in San Francisco Bay. [read post]
8 Apr 2004, 4:49 am
In Thursday's agencies and regulations news, Federal Trade Commission officials testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee yesterday said that in the face of soaring gasoline prices they had found no evidence of collusion between oil companies to run up costs. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 3:01 am
Sherlock: Following the release of BP’s second quarter earning statement, which showed a $10 billion reduction in tax liability for oil-spill-related cleanup and expenses, media headlines have generated public concern, and in some cases... [read post]
24 Dec 2004, 10:29 am
[JURIST] Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former deputy prime minister and foreign minister, has denied that Iraq used the UN oil-for-food program to extort billions of dollars according to lawyer Badih Aref, speaking Friday for Aziz after having been allowed to meet him for the first time Thursday in Baghdad. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 2:08 pm
The Justice Department is now rejecting the position of the National Labor Relations Board and … Continue reading Justice Department No Longer Supporting NLRB in Murphy Oil Arbitration Case → [read post]
29 Mar 2005, 4:18 pm
[JURIST] Following up on a JURIST report from earlier today, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has ruled out resigning after a new interim report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food Program [official website] faulted him but cleared him of any wrongdoing. [read post]
22 Jan 2025, 12:04 am
Shell Petrol StationAuthor Ianmcm Public Domain Courtesy of the author Soutce Wikimedia CommonsJane LambertCourt of Appeal (Lords Justices Phillips and Birss and Lady Justice Whipple) Ensygnia IP Ltd v Shell UK Oil Products Ltd and others [2024] EWCA Civ 1490 (5 Dec 2024)This was an appeal against the judgment of Miss Charlotte May KC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court in& [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 4:12 pm
[JURIST] Kurdish legislators in the Iraq National Assembly [official website, in Arabic] will vote against a draft law [JURIST report; JURIST news archive] to regulate the country's oil because some provisions of the bill violate a February agreement with Kurdish lawmakers, a Kurdish official said Monday. [read post]
14 Jun 2005, 7:43 am
[JURIST] A US federal court judge Tuesday renewed for a fouth time a restraining order [JURIST report] prohibiting former UN Oil-for Food Independent Committee Inquiry [IIC website] investigator Robert Parton from releasing confidential documents to the two US congressional committees that had subpoenaed the documents [JURIST report]. [read post]
3 Oct 2009, 2:28 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that a lawsuit against Canadian oil exploration company Talisman Energy [corporate website] for alleged human rights violations in Sudan should be dismissed. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
[JURIST] The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) [official website] confirmed Tuesday that it had begun an investigation into whether UK firms paid illegal kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime in the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food program [JURIST news archive], through which Hussein allegedly embezzled as much as $1.8 billion. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 8:13 am
On August 16, 2011, EPA released a final rule that will impact chemical companies such as those that manufacture chemicals used in the oil and gas production or refining industries. [read post]
17 Dec 2005, 3:24 pm
[JURIST] An anti-bribery panel for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) [official website] urged governments on Friday to dig deeper into evidence of kickbacks and corruption reported by an independent UN commission investigating the UN's now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food program [official website; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Jan 2006, 9:13 am
Dagher and Shell Oil v. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 4:48 am
[JURIST] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website; JURIST news archive] resolved a long-standing dispute [ICJ materials] between Ukraine and Romania Tuesday by drawing a new maritime border [judgment, PDF] between the countries, giving Romania four-fifths of waters believed to sit atop a sizable crude oil reserve. [read post]
