August 25, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — The first reaction among his supporters was elation — Bradley Manning had been acquitted on the most serious charge of aiding the enemy. But within minutes, the mood deflated as the man behind the largest array ofleaks in US history was convicted on 20 of 22 espionage and theft charges, exposing him…
June 11, 2013
Activists Fight Detention of Pregnant Immigrants Lilian Cardona-Perez came to America when she was 15. The nation’s immigration and naturalization service provided her with a valid work permit which she has renewed it each year since, as required. In 2010, Cardona-Perez was detained on a criminal charge that was ultimately dismissed. Held in Raleigh, North…
January 31, 2011
Florida-based federal judge Roger Vinson struck down the year-old health care law, ruling that Congress exceeded its constitutional authority to require individuals to buy insurance. In a challenge by 26 states, Vinson ruled that “because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.” Vinson did not issue an…
January 4, 2011
On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law. This legislation is the first major overhaul of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety responsibilities since 1938 and is a first step towards modernizing FDA’s food safety program. It will take several years to put the law into effect…
October 9, 2009
Opponents in domain name “turf wars” usually aren’t away of a key issue. They don’t understand that the judicial body hearing their case goes a long way to determining the outcome. One way to understand how the chosen legal forum impacts results are seen in the varying deference paid by a variety of judicial bodies…
June 29, 2008
In light of the Blackstone public offering, I wonder if there are any other partnerships that earn big fees that might go public. Like law firms, for example? Law firms, of course, just aren’t like publicly traded corporations. They have to be partnerships, or else they will lose their discipline and their cachet. I mean,…
September 29, 2007
The first Intermediate People’ s Court of Shanghai Plaintiffs: Feng Chuyin, female, of Han nationality, born on April 3, 1923, with home address at 288-3 Wuyuan Road, Shanghai Zhang Weiwei, female, of Han nationality, born on December 27, 1941, with home address at 234 Yunnanzhong Road, Shanghai Zhang Xiao, female, of Han nationality, born on…
November 29, 2006
Amway, HerbalLife and your local corporate law firm. Not three businesses you’d usually find discussed in the same sentence. But it could be. Some observers are calling corporate law firms “giant pyramid schemes.” Between fresh-out-of-law-school attorneys and the idea the common law firm structure is outdated, it’s surprising more people haven’t seen the connection between…
November 22, 2006
Katrina as the fed’s Enron While I’ve been down on Sarbanes-Oxley (see my Sarbox archive, and this summary) maybe I’ve got the whole thing wrong. Maybe we should keep SOX and apply it to the federal government. This W$J roundup of Katrina screwups left me wondering what the SEC would do under the SOX 404…
March 6, 2006
Every year tens of thousands of people arrive in the United Arab Emirates seeking to benefit from the country’s booming economy. However, the wealth of the gulf nation has also attracted human traffickers. Although prostitution and even adultery are illegal in the UAE, there are still bars and nightclubs where women are available for sex….