OCT
7
2010

Immigrant advocates issue report card on ICE reform efforts

Human rights groups today issued a one-year report card on efforts by Immigration Customs and Enforcement to reform the detention system for aliens facing removal.

OCT
7
2010

Greek civil servants strike to protest against austerity measures

Greece´s public sector shut down on Thursday as state employees began a 24-hour strike to protest against the government´s austerity package. Unions are demanding that the measures be abandoned.

OCT
7
2010

Judge bars major witness from terrorism trial

A federal judge barred prosecutors on Wednesday from using a crucial witness in the first trial of a former Guantánamo detainee, adding to the fierce debate over whether the government can successfully prosecute terrorist detainees in civilian court.

OCT
6
2010

William Hague promises UK sovereignty law

Foreign Secretary William Hague has promised a sovereignty clause will be included in an EU bill to be introduced into Parliament this year.

OCT
6
2010

Courts deal with fallout of judge´s arrest on drug and gun charges

Chief justice taps temporary judge to oversee case against Judge Jack T. Camp.

OCT
6
2010

The myth of free trade agreements

A new report from Public Citizen reveals that the growth of U.S. exports to nations with which the United States does not have Free Trade Agreements (FTA) has outpaced the growth of exports to the 17 U.S. FTA partners, with both services and goods FTA exports lagging.

OCT
6
2010

Prosecutor jailed in Yevroset case

A Moscow region prosecutor was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday for ordering the destruction of 50,000 mobile phones belonging to Yevroset and seized by police in April 2006.

OCT
6
2010

Federal judges go easy on tax cheats, pornographers and prostitutes

The latest numbers from the U.S. Sentencing Commission provide new evidence that at least some Federal  judges don´t like handing out stiff jail sentences to tax cheats.

OCT
6
2010

Legal aid cancelled for three lawyers

The Legal Services Agency (LSA) and the New Zealand Law Society are refusing to say whether three Auckland lawyers who are no longer able to provide legal aid services are being investigated by police.

OCT
6
2010

Settlement limits L.A. teachers´ seniority protection

Court agreement would cap the number of seniority-based layoffs at most L.A. Unified schools, meaning some teachers with fewer years of service could keep their jobs while some with more experience lose theirs.

OCT
6
2010

Dutch court rejects demand for Indonesia President´s arrest

A Dutch judge on Wednesday turned down demands by a separatist group for the arrest of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia on charges of human rights abuse if he set foot in the Netherlands, a court spokeswoman said.

OCT
6
2010

Justices consider limits on employer background checks in NASA case

Lawyers for the federal government clashed with lawyers for a group of California scientists at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday over how much information the government can demand in background checks on potential employees before violating their privacy rights.

OCT
6
2010

Lawyers on both sides of the pond gear up for new U.K. Bribery Law

White-collar criminal lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic are gearing up for the introduction of a new U.K. Bribery Act, which looks set to generate significant work for teams throughout the U.S. when it comes into force next year.

OCT
6
2010

Quebec spammer ordered to pay Facebook $1-billion

Courts in the United States and Canada have ordered him to pay Facebook Inc. more than $1-billion for hacking into its network, but a high-living Montreal spammer says the company will not see a cent because he has declared bankruptcy.

OCT
6
2010

Brazil minidress row student compensated

A Brazilian university has been ordered to pay $23,600 (£14,840) to compensate a student who was briefly expelled after she went to class in a dress deemed too short by officials.

OCT
5
2010

Naperville man gets 90 days for throwing egg at DuPage judge

A Naperville man´s errant egg toss at a DuPage County judge netted him a 90-day jail sentence.

OCT
5
2010

Judges are resigned to jurors researching their trials online

Although trials have been put at risk by jurors using the internet to research cases they´re deciding, judges accept it is inevitable

OCT
5
2010

Vote on child marriage law in Yemen delayed

Yemen´s parliament has delayed a vote on a child-marriage law that would have raised the minimum legal age for marriage to 17.

OCT
5
2010

Times Square bomb plotter sentenced to life in prison

The man convicted of an attempted car bomb attack in New York´s Times Square has been sentenced to life in prison.

OCT
5
2010

Appeals court kills suit by woman who didn´t like search results for her name

A federal appeals court ruled that a woman cannot sue Yahoo because she didn´t like the results when she searched for her name, Slashdot notes, pointing to the original article in the legal blog Lowering the Bar.

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