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8 Jan 2008, 4:01 pm
The Associated Press is reporting that Federal Communications Chairman Kevin Martin has promised to look into a complaint against cable provider Comcast for interfering with its customers' traffic. [read post]
5 Feb 2009, 12:02 am
Ian Lind has a great post recounting an era in which the Hawaii judiciary operated as a "political machine. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 11:08 am
[JURIST] UK Director of Public Prosecutions (DDP), Keir Starmer [official profile], published a new policy [text; press release] on Thursday for prosecutors in regards to cases of assisted suicide [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Oct 2006, 2:27 am
[JURIST] European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso [official website] told the press on Sunday that he intends to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring justice to those who killed independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya [BBC report] on October 7 in her apartment building. [read post]
31 Aug 2008, 1:20 pm
[JURIST] Brazilian intelligence service Abin [official website, in Portuguese] has pledged to investigate published reports that its agents wiretapped a variety of top Brazilian officials, including Supreme Federal Court [official website] president Gilmar Mendes. [read post]
24 Aug 2005, 4:57 am
[JURIST] Lawrence Greenfeld, former director of the US Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) [official website], has been demoted, several months after he complained that the Bush administration was interfering with the release of a report detailing racial profiling in traffic stops. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 8:37 am
You can read it here.Basically it allows for video and telephonic hearings, but only for out of custody clients. [read post]
8 Oct 2004, 12:59 pm
Miguel Angel Rodriguez, the recently appointed head of the Organization of American States (OAS) and former Costa Rican president, resigned abruptly Friday after allegations that he was involved in a bribery scandal. [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 5:17 am
From the Knoxville News Sentinel:Novel legal move advances - Public defender gets counsel following bid to remove staff from misdemeanor courtThe last time Knox County Public Defender Mark Stephens faced a room full of officials over his bid to bow out of misdemeanor court, he came armed with a notepad. [read post]
21 Feb 2006, 2:16 am
[JURIST] Jacques Bernard, head of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council [official website], has fled the country in fear of his life two weeks after heavily disputed elections [JURIST report] returned President Rene Preval [Wikipedia profile] to office. [read post]
26 Jun 2005, 3:06 pm
[JURIST] Hammam Hammoudi, head of the drafting committee for the permanent Iraqi constitution [JURIST news archive], has said that 80% of the draft is completed and he anticipates the August 15 target date will be met with a national ratification referendum to follow as scheduled in October. [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 1:54 pm
Even as it is beset by gun violence, Chicago likes to claim it has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. [read post]
21 Sep 2005, 4:27 am
[JURIST] In trial proceedings in Uzbekistan, Muidin Sobirov confessed Wednesday to his role as a key planner of the bloody demonstrations in the Uzbekistan city of Andijan in May [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
12 Jan 2006, 7:44 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official website], currently on a one-week mission [UN press release] to Uganda [JURIST news archive], expressed concern Thursday about fundamental human rights problems in the northern area of the country where government forces have been fighting the infamous Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) [Global Security backgrounder]:The situation [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 6:02 am
Well, yesterday's meeting of the board of the besieged Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (slogan: "What Could Go Wrong? [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 9:56 am
[JURIST] Former CIA Director Porter Goss [BBC profile] never objected to plans by former head of the clandestine branch of the CIA Jose Rodriguez to destroy destruction of videotapes showing CIA interrogation of terror suspects [JURIST news archive], Rodriguez's lawyer said Thursday. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 1:03 pm
The pay-to-play probe related to U.S. public pension systems led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the U.S. [read post]
20 Feb 2006, 11:49 am
[JURIST] Echoing views expressed [JURIST report] by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week, US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and one-time top Bush aide Karen Hughes [official profile] Monday defended US practices at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] and rejected the United Nations call [JURIST report] for the US to shut down its military detention [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 10:28 am
The House Corrections Committee began its hearing this morning with testimony from Brad Livingston, E.D. of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 7:34 am
By Amanda Maine, J.D.While the COVID-19 pandemic has added some elements of uncertainty to the PCAOB’s inspections program, George Botic, director of the PCAOB’s Division of Registration and Inspections, maintained that "the more things change, the more they remain the same" when it comes to the professional responsibilities of auditors. [read post]
