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Court upholds Chinese journalist's jail sentence
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2011/08/01 01:03
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The lawyer for a Chinese journalist behind bars after writing about suspected corruption says a court has rejected an appeal against a new sentence ordered just before the reporter was to be released.
Beijing attorney Wang Quanzhang says he received on Monday the decision on the case of reporter Qi Chonghuai by a court in Shandong province.
Wang says the case sets a dangerous precedent because Qi was being tried a second time in June on similar charges to those which he faced in 2008. Qi was near the end of a four-year jail term when the second trial resulted in another eight years' imprisonment.
Rights groups say Qi was arrested in 2007 after he wrote about a local official who had beaten a woman for coming late to work. |
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Kansas court system works to improve efficiency
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2011/06/21 10:33
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Judges and court workers have completed the data-collection part of a study aimed at making Kansas' court system more efficient.
The Wichita Eagle reported that the data will be analyzed by the National Center for State Courts. That national nonprofit group works to improve the justice system and lobbies on behalf of courts at the federal level.
The results of the $200,000 consultant study of how judges and other court workers spend their time will go to a panel that will recommend changes if they are needed.
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said the panel also is gathering public input on ways to improve the courts. The two initiatives are called Project Pegasus, after the winged horse in Greek mythology.
The goal is to prevent situations like last year when courts were closed four days.
When our budget is cut or when we don't have enough money, it is our people who suffer, they're the ones who have to get sent home, Nuss told members of the Wichita Pachyderm Club, a Republican group, this past week. Unfortunately that also comes at the expense of Kansas citizens, because when we have no money and we have to close the courts, the citizens no longer have access to justice.
Nuss said most of the consultant study is being paid for mostly from salary and benefit savings accrued after appellate Judge Jerry Elliott died in April of last year and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Davis died last August. |
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Speaker Boehner: Tax hikes are 'off the table'
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2011/05/09 09:20
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div id=bg_contentdiv class=padding10div class=entrydiv class=articlepHouse Speaker John Boehner is insisting tax increases are off the table in negotiations with the Obama administration and congressional Democrats on extending the federal debt limit./ppThe Ohio Republican tells NBC's Today show everything else is on the table. Boehnernbsp; appeared a day after telling the Economic Club of New York he wants trillions of dollars in spending cuts as part of legislation allowing the government to continue borrowing beyond the current $14.3 trillion cap./ppBoehner says he doesn't think Congress can take money from some who would invest in our economy and hand it over to the government. He said, You can't raise taxes./ppBoehner said mandatory spending programs like Medicare and Social Security must be addressed because now they're unaffordable for our kids and our grandkids./p/div
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France's Publicis faces $100 million gender bias lawsuit
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2011/02/24 09:27
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pA former public relations employee has sued Publicis Groupe SA for $100 million, saying the French advertising company discriminates against women in pay and promotions./ppWomen make up 70 percent of the company's public relations staff but hold only about 15 percent of leadership positions, the lawsuit says./ppA Publicis woman's place is in the back of the line, far removed from senior management positions, almost all of which are reserved for the men, the complaint contends./ppThe case was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and seeks class-action status. It was filed by Monique da Silva Moore, who was global healthcare director in the Boston office of the company's public relations division MSLGroup./ppWe generally do not comment on pending litigation, but we can say that the fact that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dismissed Ms da Silva's charge reflects the lack of merit to her claims, a spokeswoman for MSLGroup said.
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Ohio runaway convert gains legal US residency
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2010/09/07 04:20
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| pA lawyer for a runaway Christian convert from Ohio who was also an illegal immigrant says the 18-year-old woman has gained permanent residency in the United States./ppKort Gatterdam, a lawyer for Rifqa Bary, said Tuesday the news means Bary can now start applying for a driver's license, Medicaid coverage and college scholarships./ppGatterdam says Bary, a native of Sri Lanka, received her permanent residency card last week and can apply for citizenship in five years. /ppBary had sought the green card as she argued in court she could not reunite with her Muslim parents, whom she alleged threatened her with harm for converting./ppBary also sought legal residency to achieve health coverage as she battles uterine cancer. /p |
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Quote stuffing a focus in flash crash probe
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2010/09/02 10:52
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pU.S. regulators probing the May flash crash are focusing on a trading practice known as quote stuffing, in which large numbers of rapid-fire orders to buy or sell stocks are placed and canceled almost immediately./ppCFTC commissioner Scott O'Malia told Reuters on Thursday that the futures regulator was reviewing data from Nanex LLC, a trade database developer that issued a study suggesting that computer algorithms used quote stuffing to gain an edge during the May 6 crash./ppThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating the crash jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is looking at quote stuffing and something called sub-penny pricing, a person familiar with the flash crash probe said./ppThe Nanex study uses market graphics and playful names to illustrate quote stuffing, arguing that high-frequency trading firms do this to flood the marketplace with bogus orders to distract rival trading firms./ppInvestors could make trades under the false impression that those orders were legitimate, only to see liquidity disappear and the market move against them when the orders are canceled -- all in the blink of an eye.
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DOJ's elite Public Integrity unit gets new leader
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2010/08/30 08:23
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pThe Justice Department's Public Integrity Section has a storied 34-year history of pursuing corruption in government and safeguarding the public trust./ppThat trust was breached, however, when some of the unit's prosecutors failed to turn over evidence favorable to the defense in their high-profile criminal trial of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who died earlier this month in a plane crash./ppNow Jack Smith, a 41-year-old prosecutor with a love for courtroom work and an impressive record, has been brought in to restore the elite unit's credibility./ppBefore Stevens, Public Integrity's renown was built on large successes — like the prosecution of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and convictions of federal and state judges, members of Congress and state legislators, military officers, federal lawmen and bureaucrats and their state counterparts over the years./ppBut its stumble — not disclosing exculpatory evidence as Supreme Court precedent requires — was equally large. It was so serious that Attorney General Eric Holder, one of Public Integrity's distinguished alums, stepped in and asked a federal judge to throw out Stevens' convictions./ppAt the time of the Stevens debacle, Smith was overseeing all investigations for the international war crimes office at The Hague in the Netherlands. He'd read about the Stevens case. Offered the chance to take over Public Integrity, he couldn't stay away.
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