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2 Sep 2008, 8:43 pm
The first section makes it illegal for U.S. persons, including U.S. companies and their subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees and agents, and any stockholders acting on their behalf, to bribe foreign officials. [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 2:29 pm
S142892 The rights of religious freedom and free speech, as guaranteed in both the federal and the California Constitutions, do not exempt a medical clinic's physicians from complying with the California Unruh Civil Rights Act's prohibition against discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation. . [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 4:55 pm
Although the introduction of a sui generis database right in European Union member states never turned out to be the New Dawn for investment in the information-based industries that the European Commission foolishly believed it might, the protection of databases remains a matter of concern and importance as much in the era of Web 2.0 as it did in the days when data was something stored in shoe-boxes and on-line was where you hung the washing. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 7:28 pm
See here.... [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 10:03 am
During the Civil War, Lincoln commissioned the Lieber Code establishing a law of war. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 8:28 pm
U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, August 15, 2008 Chhay v. [read post]
12 Aug 2008, 12:14 pm
In Pax World Management, Investment Company Act No. 38344 (admin proc July 30, 2008), the Commission issued a cease and desist order (and imposed a civil penalty of $500,000) against a fund that violated its socially responsible criteria. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 12:17 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union said it filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 10:51 am
As a result, the newly filed civil lawsuit presents the spectacle of one Swiss domiciled company suing another Swiss domiciled company in U.S. federal court. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 4:18 pm
” Update: The Center for Constitutional Rights: “Hamdan’s trial violated two of the most fundamental criminal justice principles accepted by all civilized nations: the prohibition on the use of coerced evidence and the prohibition on retroactive criminal laws. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 5:43 pm
Law School Moot Court and Mock Trial Programs, Constitutional Rights FoundationAuthor, Justice William J. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 10:08 am
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the U.S. is a party, does not categorically prohibit administrative detention, but does prohibit arbitrary detention and provides for a mechanism, akin to habeas corpus, to remedy it.Anytime one mentions the ICCPR in connection with U.S. terrorism detention policy, it is first necessary to dismiss two patently incorrect U.S. positions. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 7:08 pm
Section 1447(d) appears to deny review of any remand order unless removed under 28 USC §1443 [applicable to certain civil rights cases]. [read post]
23 Jul 2008, 7:20 am
The U.S. [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 7:01 pm
Supreme Court ruled last month that the enemy combatants, including Hamden, had a right to challenge their detentions in U.S. civil courts under what is known as habeas corpus -- an undefined process as applied to the detainees but one routinely used by U.S. inmates challenging their convictions. [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 10:02 am
Rumsfeld -- a military commission at Guantánamo will hear opening arguments this morning in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan (right). [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 9:14 pm
Godin, No. 07-2332 To obtain a conviction for aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. section 1028A(a)(1), the government must prove that the defendant knew that the means of identification transferred, possessed, or used during the commission of an enumerated felony belonged to another person. [read post]
20 Jul 2008, 7:15 am
The moral genius of the African National Congress was to understand that peace was what the newly liberated country needed, not civil war, and so instead of trials there was a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which, in exchange for confessions, the authors of the horrors of apartheid were effectively let off scot-free.There is also the example of post-Pinochet Chile. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 12:19 pm
Rees, 551 U.S. ---- (U.S. [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 7:51 pm
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka (right) presided over the proceedings. [read post]
