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US envoy says rights talks with China yield little
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2011/04/28 02:05
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| pAn American human rights envoy said Thursday that China provided no useful information when probed about specific cases of individuals who have been detained or who disappeared in a major crackdown on dissent in recent months./ppHundreds of lawyers, activists, and other intellectuals have been questioned, detained, confined to their homes or have simply disappeared, apparently to squelch any chances of the kind of popular uprisings roiling the Middle East and North Africa. The clampdown on dissent is the broadest and harshest in years by China's Communist government./ppMichael Posner, U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, said that his delegation received no satisfactory answers to its questions about Teng Biao, a law professor who disappeared in February, and the artist Ai Weiwei, who was apparently detained by authorities April 3 but has yet to be formally charged./ppWe need to and will continue to raise these issues in a range of forums, Posner said. The most senior government officials in the United States are deeply concerned about the deterioration of human rights in China over the last several months./p |
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2 charged with insider trading involving law firms
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2011/04/06 09:13
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pFederal authorities have charged two men with running an insider trading scheme that netted more than $30 million with information stolen from law firms.
Garrett Bauer is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday afternoon. Matthew Kluger will make his first appearance in federal court in Alexandria, Va. /ppThey're accused of trading on inside information stolen from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich amp; Rosati, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. /ppAuthorities also allege the decades-long scheme used information stolen from prominent New York law firms Cravath Swaine amp; Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher amp; Flom./p |
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Court turns down campaign disclosure challenge
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2011/02/23 09:19
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| pThe Supreme Court has rejected an appeal challenging campaign disclosure laws in Washington state./ppThe court on Tuesday let stand without comment a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the state's disclosure requirements. Human Life of Washington challenged the requirements as a violation of the First Amendment. The group didn't want to reveal its donors in a 2008 campaign opposing an assisted suicide ballot measure./ppThe San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the disclosure requirements have become an important part of our First Amendment tradition./p |
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Reno court accepts deal for model in arch crash
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2011/01/31 22:54
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| A fashion model pleaded no contest Monday in Reno to careless driving and agreed to pay damages after crashing a rented motorhome into the city's landmark downtown arch. pRosemary Vandenbroucke, 28, of Hong Kong agreed to pay $385 in fines and $985 for damage to the Biggest Little City in the World arch and a fire hydrant, said Dan Wong, criminal division chief for the city attorney's office. pTammy Riggs, a lawyer for Vandenbroucke, didn't immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press seeking comment on the plea deal. pReno Municipal Court Judge Jay Dilworth accepted the plea with no other penalties, Wong said. pNobody was injured in the crash, but authorities said the 40-foot motorhome was substantially damaged. pVandenbroucke was originally charged with three misdemeanors—vehicular hit-and-run, failure to maintain insurance and making an improper right turn. pThe Labor Day crash occurred a day after the model was arrested at the Burning Man counterculture festival north of Reno and charged with possession of a controlled substance. /p |
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High court denies man's gun arrest appeal
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2011/01/18 09:09
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| pMissing a plane connection cost Utah gun owner Greg Revell 10 days in jail after he was stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City./ppNevertheless, the Supreme Court without comment refused on Tuesday to let Revell sue Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police for arresting him on illegal possession of a firearm in New Jersey and for not returning his gun and ammunition to him for more than three years./ppRevell was flying from Salt Lake City to Allentown, Pa., on March 31, 2005, with connections in Minneapolis and Newark, N.J. He had checked his Utah-licensed gun and ammunition with his luggage in Salt Lake City and asked airport officials to deliver them both with his luggage in Allentown./ppBut the flight from Minneapolis to Newark was late, so Revell missed his connection to Allentown. The airline wanted to bus its passengers to Allentown, but Revell realized that his luggage had not made it onto the bus and got off. After finding his luggage had been given a final destination of Newark by mistake, Revell missed the bus. He collected his luggage, including his gun and ammunition, and decided to wait in a nearby hotel with his stuff until the next flight in the morning./ppWhen Revell tried to check in for the morning flight, he again informed the airline officials about his gun and ammunition to have them checked through to Allentown. He was reported to the TSA, and then arrested by Port Authority police for having a gun in New Jersey without a New Jersey license./p |
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Mich. court ruling would nix water discharge plan
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2010/12/30 08:50
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| pA divided Michigan Supreme Court has issued an opinion that would continue to prevent an energy company from discharging treated wastewater into the headwaters of the Au Sable River in Otsego County./ppThe 4-3 decision would deny the water discharge plan for Merit Energy Co. because the court's majority ruled it is manifestly unreasonable./ppThe company already had abandoned the discharge plan and considered the case moot. A previous Supreme Court ruling would have prevented the discharge./ppThe new ruling, however, could set precedents for future environmental cases in which the state has issued permits./ppConservative justices who currently form the court's minority blast the more liberal majority for using a moot case to reach desired policy results./p |
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