Family of 1969 race riot victim settle federal lawsuit for $2M
The city of York, Pennsylvania, will pay a $2 million settlement to the relatives of a black woman shot to death during race riots in 1969. The two children and two sisters of Lilly Belle Allen will get a...
Austria has joined several other countries investigating whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted unauthorized flights through their airspace in 2003 while transporting terror detainees. An Austrian air force commander told state radio that a US...
Federal agents arrest 120 on immigration violations after Wal-Mart raid
Federal immigration officials Thursday raided a Wal-Mart distribution center construction site in Pennsylvania and arrested over 120 workers for immigration violations. Agents from the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...
Peru protests Japan refusal to extradite Fujimori by pulling ambassador
Peru announced Thursday that it is removing its ambassador from Japan to protest Tokyo's refusal to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori . Fujimori was detained earlier this week in Chile on an international...
Wal-Mart executives knew of illegal workers, unsealed affidavit shows
Two senior Wal-Mart executives were aware that cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants, according to an affidavit filed by the US Bureau of Immigration and Custom Enforcement as part of an effort to secure a...
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings...
Fraudulent use of deceased names in elections under NJ judicial review
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Linda R. Feinberg has ordered the state to compile and distribute by Monday a list of all adult deaths of New Jersey residents since 1985 because 13,000 people who have died...
Reports of violent crime in US at 30-year low, DOJ statistics show
Reports of violent crime in the US in 2004 were at their lowest level since the US Department of Justice began compiling statistics 32 years ago, according to a report released Sunday. The Bureau of...
Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC begins informal probe into Alcoa
Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has started an informal investigation into aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. over the classification of trade accounts payable transactions starting in 2003. Alcoa has said it will...
JURIST Guest Columnist and international law scholar Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently-divulged White House and DOJ memos provide evidence of an illegal, unconstitutional and downright inept US plan to violate the Geneva Conventions...
