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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]
2 Jan 2020, 6:19 am
It's here. [read post]
30 May 2007, 11:01 am
[JURIST] Russia's Office of the Prosecutor-General [official website, in Russian] Wednesday dismissed suggestions by a Russian lawmaker that Andrei Lugovoy [JURIST news archive], currently sought by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) [official website] for the poisoning murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko [BBC profile; BBC timeline], could be extradited to the UK in exchange [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 12:37 pm
[JURIST] Hosam Taher Hosam, a Syrian witness who told the UN committee [UN materials] investigating the death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive] that Syrian and Lebanese officials had a hand in the February 14 assassination said Monday that his testimony was false and that he was bribed by Hariri's son. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 5:48 pm
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today to consider President Obama's nomination of Dawn Johnsen to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 10:54 am
Airport security teams trained to look for subtle facial clues have led to the arrests of more than 150 people, according to the latest installment of security guru Bruce Schneier's long interview with Transportation Security Administration head Kip Hawley. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 10:34 am
It is likely that Congress will pass Dodd-Frank technical corrections legislation this year, said OCC Thomas Curry, adding that some corrections will be a bit more substantive than technical. [read post]
11 Aug 2006, 1:01 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] on Thursday said that the Kyrgyzstan decision to extradite four Uzbekistan [JURIST news archive] refugees and one asylum seeker back to Uzbekistan earlier this week was a breach of Kyrgyzstan's obligations under the Convention Against Torture [text] and warned that the five face a grave risk of torture [press release] [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 12:54 pm
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7 Nov 2006, 12:21 am
[JURIST] UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland called Tuesday for a freeze on the use of controversial cluster munitions [FAS backgrounder; JURIST news archive] at the outset of the Third Review Conference [official website; US delegation website] in Geneva on the 1983 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons [text; ACA backgrounder], which already bans or limits the [read post]
13 Oct 2012, 2:27 pm
Everyone now knows what he did with Obamacare: Agreed with the conservatives that the federal government had exceeded its interstate commerce power. [read post]
28 Feb 2005, 8:57 am
[JURIST] Mohamed ElBaradei [official profile], Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency [official website], called Monday for Iran to be more open and proactive in providing information to the UN nuclear watchdog organization concerning its nuclear programs. [read post]
29 May 2015, 6:51 am
In the course of twenty years in Texas' criminal-justice reform movement, Grits has enjoyed the good fortune to work with a bevy of amazing women and, for whatever reason, only a handful of men operating at the same, high levels who for the most part were unable to get out of their (our) own way.Emblematic of the former, happier, group is Vanita Gupta who took over as acting head of the Civil Rights Division at the US Justice Department in October but, in a past life, was once co-counsel on… [read post]
30 May 2007, 11:32 am
[JURIST] Former FBI Director William S. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 3:48 pm
[JURIST] Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [advocacy website], Wednesday expressed optimism [press release] after completing a two-day visit to Washington DC to speak with top US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, about ICRC concerns regarding [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 12:23 am
[JURIST] A new foreign intelligence surveillance bill is needed to ensure that the US intelligence community has "the agility and the speed that we had before" to capture terrorist communications in the war on terror, US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell [official profile] said Sunday in an interview [transcript] with Fox News Sunday. [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 1:28 pm
[JURIST] Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced Friday that a criminal investigation has been opened into the June abduction and murder of four Russian embassy employees [BBC report] in Iraq. [read post]
14 Jun 2006, 8:23 am
[JURIST] Council of Europe (COE) Secretary General Terry Davis concluded in a new report [text, DOC] published Wednesday that many European governments do not have adequate administrative, judicial, or parliamentary control mechanisms to ensure that their airspace and aircraft are not being used for illegal rendition programs. [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 6:55 am
Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on Wednesday rebuffed a call from America's largest business lobby that Sarbanes-Oxley be changed to allow the regulator to ease the burden of complying with the law. [read post]
