A former Swiss banker plans on providing secret account information to WikiLeaks on Monday. Rudolf Elmer was one of the first people to give controversial data to the website, releasing internal bank documents in 2007.
The chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco today assigned a federal judge from San Diego to preside over the U.S. trial of a Tucson man accused of carrying out a mass shooting on Saturday.
Just as journalists like nothing more than writing about press freedom – look out for heavy coverage next Tuesday when the European court of human rights rules on the Daily Mirror´s appeal in the Naomi Campbell privacy case – there is little that some MPs enjoy more than debating parliamentary sovereignty.
The D.C. Court of Appeals handed down eight disciplinary opinions today, including one that clarifies the standard used by the court when an attorney is found to have intentionally misappropriated client funds. While most of today’s opinions were reciprocal matters, in one case a three-judge panel determined for the first time since 1990 that an attorney’s intentional misappropriations of client funds did not require disbarment.
Although law firms and barristers´ chambers deem work experience a prerequisite for their recruits, most students see it as a tedious rite of passage rather than an authentic learning experience.
Judges have to decide if legislation giving him temporary immunity from prosecution breaches the principle that all citizens are equal before the law.
Three prisons are to shut by July with the loss of 800 places, it was reported today.
San Diego U.S. District Judge Larry Burns will preside over the case against the man accused of killing a federal judge in the Arizona massacre that left a congresswoman clinging for her life.
In Conviction, which tells the story of a woman who put herself through high school, college and law school so she could fight her brother´s wrongful murder conviction, it comes from the woman´s best friend who says: "I hate the damn legal system. It´s so fucking inconvenient."
The Winklevoss twins went to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today hoping to undo a settlement that makes them far richer than it did when they struck the deal with Facebook in 2008.
While some lawmakers are responding to the mass shooting in Arizona by introducing legislation to increase gun control or asking for additional security, others say they´re going to start exercising their Second Amendment rights and carry weapons.
Max Mosley will appear in court today in a final attempt to change the law on privacy, in a case that could have far-reaching implications for the UK´s media.
Numerical rankings could be coming to the law schools that U.S. News & World Report categorizes as third tier — meaning those 42 schools would be subject to the same up-and- down fluctuations watched so closely among the top 100.
Julian Assange is due to appear in court today in his fight against extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes.
The district judge Nicholas Evans will oversee a case management hearing at Belmarsh magistrates court, sitting at Woolwich crown court in south-east London, as preparations continue for a two-day extradition hearing starting on 7 February.
People trying to access the lifestyle website GayNZ.com discovered they could not find the site, among others, and the website challenged the fast-food giant - which offers free WiFi access in 132 of its restaurants nationwide - to review its access policy.
For Peter Atem, the day southern Sudan sealed its independence could not come soon enough. As midnight arrived in the southern capital Juba, Atem was already in a queue outside a polling station — even though it would not open until 8 a.m. — so eager was he to vote in a referendum to split his homeland from northern Sudan. After waiting all night, his spirits were undimmed. "Independence is what we have been fighting for," he declared. "We are here to say bye-bye."
Brazil has warned that the world is on course for a full-blown "trade war" as it stepped up its rhetoric against exchange rate manipulation.
Last May Dimitrios Biller was in Washington, D.C., to take depositions for his arbitration. Toyota´s former in-house lawyer was locked in a bitter and lonely battle with his old company, and he was eager to talk about it. Over a steak dinner at the historic Old Ebbitt Grill near the White House, he answered every question without hesitation.
Back in his heyday, Leonard F. Inzitari of Amendola & Nesi in East Haven was known for some serious moves: the reverse flying body press, the pile driver and the flying clothesline.
He turned pro with the old World Wrestling Federation a few weeks after his 18th birthday in 1984 and was known by such stage names as Mario Mancini, Fracture Fansberg and the M&M Kid.
At some point, Inzitari, 44, decided the legal profession suited him. He also continued to wrestle.
Judge John Roll lived just a few minutes away from the Safeway on Tuscon, Ariz.´s Oracle Road. So it wouldn´t have been a major inconvenience for him to drop by on Saturday morning to talk business with U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was having an event for constituents at the grocery store.
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