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US Chamber Hires Bush's Attorney General To Help Weaken Ban On Corporate Bribery
It covers possible FCPA amendments and other issues “related to criminal law and policies affecting US corporations.” [...] Harold Kim, senior vice president at the Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform, said he's pleased with Mukasey's hiring.
Updated: 03/15/2011 05:03P
Impact of Medicaid cuts outlined as House works on compromise
Justice and Public Safety Secretary J. Michael Brown told the panel reduced spending would harm the much-praised House Bill 463, which rewrites much of Kentucky's criminal code to reduce prison and jail crowding. After eight budget cuts in the last
Updated: 03/15/2011 05:01P
Mobile Devices Fair Game for Police Searches in California
A mere 28 days after Diaz was arrested in Ventura County, an unpublished case out of the US District Court for the Northern District of California considered searches of defendants' cell phones that had occurred approximately an hour and a half after
Updated: 03/15/2011 04:33P
ICC summonses: Iteere to serve Ocampo Six
According to Criminal Procedure Code, summonses are supposed to be served by a police officer and Wako immediately handed them over to Iteere to avoid any delay, reported a source in the State Law Office. He received them in a parcel from Kenya's
Updated: 03/15/2011 04:05P
Bondar dismissed as deputy head of State Customs Service
The Prosecutor General's Office launched criminal proceedings against Former Transport Minister Bondar under Part 5, Article 27, Part 2, Article 194 and Article 353 of the Criminal Code (aiding and abetting in the deliberate destruction of another
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:13P
Canada - one official language?
Canada, as a colony and now a nation, has always been impacted by the immigration of people of different cultures, religions and languages all searching for equal opportunity and freedom of choice. Following the defeat by the British in 1759,
Updated: 03/15/2011 03:11P
EU Foreign Policy Chief Lectures America on 'Human Rights'
Europe can't find the money to pay for its fair share of NATO but it can spare a dime to hector its main defense benefactor on criminal law. This is why fewer and fewer Americans take Europe seriously. One of those US groups that receives EU funding is
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:37P
Chamber Hires Ex-AG To Lobby On FCPA
The registration, on behalf of the Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform, covers possible FCPA amendments and other issues “related to criminal law and policies affecting US corporations,” according to the BLT. The Institute for Legal Reform released a
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:05P
Sarkisian 'Ashamed' Of Armenian Police Officials
Criminal Code dealing with that, and that person should have been imprisoned for his actions,” said Levon Zurabian of the Armenian National Congress (HAK). Tamamian has for years been one of Armenia's most controversial law-enforcement officials.
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:02P
White House wants new copyright law crackdown
The White House is concerned that "illegal streaming of content" may not be covered by criminal law, saying "questions have arisen about whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works." To resolve that ambiguity, it wants a new law
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:01P
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