The European Commission, the European Union’s antitrust watchdog, sets a September date for parties to comment on search engine giant Google’s deal with book publishers.
– BRUSSELS (Reuters) The European Commission is to hold a hearing on
September 7 for interested parties to comment on Google’s deal with
publishers to make millions of books available online and its impact on
EU writers’ rights.
quot;Participants were invited to it three weeks ago, quot; Commissi…
The two top officials on the Senate Judiciary Committee left niceties at the door when they held a joint appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.
Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) accused the Republican Party of playing “racial politics…
The Pakistan Government has filed a chargesheet against five 26/11 prime accused suspects.
The hearing into the case would begin on July 25 in the special anti-terror court that has been set-up in the Adiala jail for the purpose.
The chargesheet includes the names of Lashkar’s operation chief Zakir-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Jamaat-ud-Dawaa (JuD) chief Hafiz [...]
With all of the pontificating about the need for judges and justices to be fair and impartial and leave their biases at the door, the senators do just the opposite.
Five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks on America have boycotted a hearing at a US military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others did not appear in the high security courtroom when the hearing started.
The judge had ruled that three of the five – including Mr Sheikh Mohammed – would not be able to speak in court.
The hearing was meant to focus on medical reports on two of the five.
A US prosecutor said those two would be brought to court by "all necessary means".
Lawyers are currently discussing whether all five should be allowed to speak.
Trial confusion
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – described by US intelligence as "one of history’s most infamous terrorists" – earlier admitted being responsible "from A to Z" for 9/11.
Believed to be the number three al-Qaeda leader before his capture in Pakistan in March 2003, he told a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo in December 2008 that he wanted to plead guilty to all charges against him.
The Obama administration has yet to announce how the five defendants will be tried or where they will be held if the camp at Guantanamo Bay is closed by January 2010, as promised.
US President Barack Obama has ordered a halt to military commissions at Guantanamo Bay but preparations continue for military trials and prosecutors say they are ready to begin proceedings against 66 detainees.
Mr Obama has conceded that some will be tried in military courts once Congress passes legislation which puts in place a number of legal safeguards. </p
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This isn’t Al Franken’s first Supreme Court confirmation hearing. In 1991 he appeared in an opening sketch on “Saturday Night Live” that mocked Clarence Thomas’s hearing and those involved. It featured Tim Meadows as Thomas and Dana Carvey, Ph…
I watched the opening statements made by the nineteen senators in Monday’s confirmation hearing for Judge Sotomayor. Each senator previewed what they were going to…
Congratulations to Senator Chuck Grassley for cracking what may be the best one-liner so far at the Sotomayor confirmation hearings; best of all, it was a sexual innuendo. Following an interruption by an anti-abortion protester during Grassley…
Sonia Sotomayor spoke at her confirmation hearing for the first time on Monday afternoon, sketching out her judicial philosophy.
“My personal and professional experiences help me listen and understand, with the law always commanding the resul…
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s mother and ex-wife time will have time to reach an agreement over who will take care of the singer’s three children.
For the second time, Katherine Jackson and Deborah Rowe joined to seek a delay in a hea…
A hearing to decide who will take care of Michael Jackson’s three children is to be delayed by a week, says his mother’s lawyer.
Katherine Jackson and her son’s ex-wife Deborah Rowe joined on Friday to ask the judge for a delay to the hearing. The case has been delayed once already.
Ms Jackson will remain the temporary guardian of her son’s three children, whose ages range from seven to 12.
The two sides are believed to be trying to broker an out-of-court settlement.
‘Privately and amicably’
In a statement to the Associated Press news agency, L Londell McMillan, a lawyer acting for Ms Jackson, said the delay would "allow us to privately and amicably resolve this most important matter in a dignified manner for the benefit of the children first and all involved".
Lawyers for Ms Rowe, who was married to the pop singer from 1996 to 1999, have declined to comment.
She is the mother of Jackson’s two oldest children, 12-year-old Prince Michael, and 11-year-old Paris Michael Katherine Jackson.
The surrogate mother of Jackson’s youngest child, seven-year-old Prince Michael II, has never been identified.
In his will, Michael Jackson stated he wanted his mother to care for his children if he died. As an alternative, he named singer and friend Diana Ross.</p
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will convene Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. to begin the hearing on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to become an associate justice of…
