Search Results for: 2002-06-06

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld the drug conviction of a passenger found with cocaine during an airport security check. Sergio Ramon Marquez was randomly selected from a line...

Montoy, et al., v. Kansas, et al., Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:The initial attractiveness of the Board's suggestion...

The Fourth District Court of Appeal in Florida Wednesday rejected an appeal from a widow who sued a gun company after her husband, a middle school teacher, was gunned down by a student while entering...

Jordan's state security court has sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to 15 years in prison in absentia for a plot to attack the country's embassy in Iraq. Zarqawi, designated the most-wanted man in Iraq {AP report]...

More recently-declassified notes of some Guantanamo detainees' conversations with their defense attorneys include allegations that US personnel at the camp repeatedly mocked Islam, made disparaging remarks, and took religiously-abusive actions such as that of a prison barber in cutting...

In a highly unusual move, ten former WorldCom (now MCI) directors have agreed to pay $18 million of a $54 million class-action settlement from their own pockets. The agreement is part of a settlement reached Wednesday with plaintiffs led...

UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw said in an interview Monday that he believed recently-proposed changes to the UN Charter (reported by JURIST's Paper Chase here) would allow for easier intervention in situations of human rights abuses like those that...

In Monday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has released a final rule relating to the registration of hedge fund advisors with the agency by February 1. Critics charge that the SEC does not have the legal authority...