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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new guidelines Monday limiting the appointment of independent monitors to verify corporate compliance with deferred-prosecution agreements. The new guidelines, which prohibit corporations from hiring monitors with existing ties to the...

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University says despite US attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey's success in winning approval in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the full Senate should take all the time it needs...

A group of children of Holocaust survivors have filed a class action lawsuit against the German government in an Israeli court, seeking German financial contribution to an annual $10 million therapy fund for approximately 15,000 to 20,000 so-called second-generation...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Thursday that it has filed suit against the heads of a technology company and two lawyers who assisted the company in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Aziz Huq, Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, says that the El-Masri v. Tenet ruling represents a dangerous trend in "state secrets" cases towards...

Ben Davis : "Charles 'Cully' Stimson has had a hard week. On January 11, 2007 he made shocking comments on the pro bono lawyers who are working on behalf of Gitmo detainees, calling for corporate...

JURIST Guest Columnists Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen of New England School of Law say that whatever policy intentions the US executive branch may have with regard to a nuclear Iran, its foreign affairs and national security discretion is and...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a program in San Diego County which uses peace officers to search the homes of welfare applicants...

Government investigators told the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a hearing Monday that the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina had been plagued by fraud and...

President Bush has used a recess appointment to fill an opening at the Justice Department that was stalled in the Senate, naming attorney Alice S. Fisher to the top post in the DOJ's criminal division....