Samsung execs pleading guilty to price-fixing of computer chips
Three Samsung executives agreed to plead guilty Wednesday for conspiring to drive up the prices in the market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. The three South Koreans will serve jail sentences...
Opening arguments began Monday in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui with government prosecutors claiming the defendant's lies to the FBI when he was arrested in August 2001 could have prevented the Sept. 11...
US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema on Monday sat 12 jurors and 6 alternates in the sentencing trial of al Qaeda co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui following several weeks of jury selection . While Moussaoui's...
Jury selection begins Monday in Virginia for the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui to determine if the al-Qaida follower should be given life in prison or a death sentence...
Bush reserves right to bypass torture ban in spending bill signing statement
A statement made by President Bush when he signed the 2006 defense spending bill last week allows Bush to bypass the law's ban on torture under his commander in chief powers, the Boston Globe reported...
NSA expanded domestic surveillance after Sept. 11 without formal OK from Bush
In the weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency expanded its domestic surveillance program without formal authorization from President Bush, documents released Tuesday revealed. According to an October 2001 letter ...
Samsung , the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, has pleaded guilty to criminal antitrust charges and was ordered pay a $300 million fine, the second largest fine in a criminal antitrust case, for conspiring...
AP is reporting that Sandra Day O'Connor , first woman justice on the US Supreme Court, has announced her plans to retire . Read the text of Justice O'Connor's letter of resignation addressed to President...
Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC passes controversial stock rule change
Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has approved the extenstion of the "trade-through" rule to electronic exchanges which will subject the vast majority of stock transactions to guidelines designed to give investors the best...
In an 8-5-1 decision, the Florida First District Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the state's 1999 school voucher law violates the state constitution because it allows tax dollars to be spent on religious schools. The law states that...
