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1 Oct 2009, 5:45 am
Wells' statement on the documentary later became part of the basis for a move by Polanski's attorneys to dismiss the case against the fugitive director, who was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday.... [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 2:32 pm
Roman Polanski is in prison in Switzerland as Swiss authorities wait for a formal extradition request from U.S. authorities who have until late November to file that request. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 2:32 pm
Roman Polanski is in prison in Switzerland as Swiss authorities wait for a formal extradition request from U.S. authorities who have until late November to file that request. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 2:15 pm
  Polanski, who resides in France, was arrested in Switzerland where he owns a home and frequently visited. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 11:21 am
As the director sits in jail in Switzerland, folks on both sides of the case continue to hammer away at each other. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 11:02 am
Second (and from someone who has lived in Europe a number of different times and in a number of different locations): Europeans do have a healthier perspective on teenage sex, but Europeans do not condone the drugging and forcible rape of a teenager.Also allow me to point out that I can appreciate people's hesitance at accelerating the Polanski matter: it has been over three decades since the crime, the California budget is strained as it is, and significant political chips will be spent to… [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 8:50 am
Look for the burgeoning international celebrity crime story of Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland to turn into another global culture war about American mores with one spin emphasizing US Puritanism and punitiveness versus European civility and tolerance, and the other spin emphasizing US concern for victims and European decadence and aristocratic disdain for popular fears. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 5:41 am
., 2-08-cv-00068 (TXED September 28, 2009, Memorandum Opinion & Order) (Ward, J.)Venue for suit initiated by Maryland plaintiff against defendants from Ohio, Sweden, Switzerland, and Israel was transferred to the Northern District of Ohio. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 1:28 pm
We ask the Swiss courts to free him immediately and not to turn this ingenious filmmaker into a martyr of a politico-legal imbroglio that is unworthy of two democracies like Switzerland and the United States. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 8:54 am
The well-known movie director, Roman Polanski, was recently arrested in Zurich, Switzerland by Swiss authorities because of a sex crime he committed in the United States in 1977. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 7:00 am
Yaz to stay on the market in Switzerland FitSugar talks about the Yaz lawsuits News Inferno reports on Yaz, discussing a Dutch study in the British Medical Journal that found "6.3-fold increase in venous thrombosis - a life-threatening type of blood clot - in women taking drospirenone contraceptives compared with women not taking any type of pill. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 5:15 pm
In a related development, some Swiss financial experts have criticized the agreement stating that the loser is Switzerland, in particular the Swiss banking sector. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 2:25 pm
The latest: According to the AP, Polanski is in a “fighting mood” and will fight attempts to have him extradited from Switzerland to California. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 11:06 am
After more than three decades on the lamb, a Los Angeles County arrest warrant finally caught up with director Roland Polanski last weekend, as he arrived in Switzerland to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Zurich Film Festival. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 7:41 am
Times has the story, headlined Polanski Arrested in Switzerland in 1970s Sex Case . [read post]
27 Sep 2009, 6:12 pm
A Roman Polanski update: Poland and France intend to make a joint appeal to Switzerland and the United States to have Polanski released from his detention, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told the Polish news agency PAP. [read post]
27 Sep 2009, 10:55 am
Update: Here is the Motion to Dismiss (pdf)and the Victim's Declaration (pdf). [read post]
26 Sep 2009, 10:09 pm
Polanski had traveled to Switzerland to received a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival. [read post]