Recent Updates
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U.S. law firm again at center of big CEO payout
Headline News 01/03/2007Law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is again at the center of a massive and controversial CEO payout, representing the board of Home Depot Inc.that gave its departing boss a $210 million goodbye.Wachtell's work for Home Depot marks the third ...
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Many Californians handle their own divorces
Headline News 12/31/2006Rising legal fees, fewer legal aid services and a do-it-yourself mentality are driving more Californians to handle their own divorces, but sometimes not very successfully.Court officials and legal experts worry that tens of thousands of former Califo...
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SEC Announces Administrative Judge McEwen To Retire
Headline News 12/29/2006Administrative Law Judge Lillian A. McEwen has announced that she is retiring from her position with the SEC, effective Jan. 3, 2007. Since her appointment in September 1995, Judge McEwen has presided over, and issued initial decisions in, scores of ...
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Court Reprimands Ohio Governor Over Gifts
Headline News 12/28/2006Governor Bob Taft (R-OH) Wednesday received a public reprimand from the Ohio Supreme Court for ethics violations stemming from charges that he received over 50 gifts worth up to $6,000 during four years in office. The reprimand will be a permanent ma...
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Samsung Korean Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty
Headline News 12/22/2006WASHINGTON — An executive from Samsung Electronics Company Ltd..– the world’s largest manufacturer of a common computer component called dynamic random access memory (DRAM) – has agreed to plead guilty, serve jail time in the United States, a...
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17 Guantanamo detainees sent home
Headline News 12/17/2006The U.S. military repatriated 18 detainees from Guantanamo Bay over the weekend to Afghanistan, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Libya and Bangladesh, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday.The men, flown out of the U.S. naval base in southeastern Cuba on Friday, were a...
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Nebraska's Ban On Corporate Farming Shot Down
Headline News 12/14/2006[##_1L|1014458418.jpg|width="180" height="126" alt=""|_##]The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Wednesday that a 1982 ban on corporate farming in Nebraska is unconstitutional because it violates the dormant commerce clause. The federal...
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"Girls Gone Wild" Sentenced to Pay $1.6 Million
Headline News 12/13/2006Mantra Films, Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif. company operating as Girls Gone Wild, was sentenced today to pay $1.6 million in criminal fines for failing to create and maintain age and identity records for films it produced, Assistant Attorney General A...
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Maryland high court considers same-sex marriage ban
Headline News 12/05/2006The Maryland Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Monday in a case challenging a 1973 state law banning same-sex marriage. Plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), argued that marriage is a fundamental right which sho...
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US House to vote on Mexico offshore drilling bill
Headline News 12/02/2006[##_1L|1072780264.jpg|width="200" height="170" alt=""|_##]Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed Friday to vote on a compromise offshore drilling bill on Tuesday under special rules that limit amendments and generally speed up proceedi...
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U.S. Prison and Jail Population Increases in 2005
Headline News 11/30/2006[##_1L|1040026648.jpg|width="104" height="104" alt=""|_##]The population of individuals in US prisons rose by 2.7 percent in 2005, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics. The repo...
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Spitzer cautions against easing corporate reforms
Headline News 11/26/2006Many of the efforts to soften the corporate accountability reforms of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act are being pushed by the same corporations that employed questionable accounting and business practices before the Sarbanes-Oxley reforms, New York state...