Legal News

Ex-Morgan Crucible chief faces US extradition
Ian Norris, the former chief executive of Morgan Crucible, is facing extradition to the US on charges of obstruction of justice.

Ecuador Files Application Against Colombia at the ICJ
On March 31, Ecuador filed an application against Colombia in the UN?s International Court of Justice in The Hague regarding the aerial spraying of toxic herbicides by Colombia along the border the two countries share...

UN Court Determines Disputed Caribbean Islands Belong to Colombia
On December 13 the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that three islands in the Caribbean Sea disputed between Colombia and Nicaragua in fact belong to Colombia. Nicaragua had brought action at the ICJ, arguing that it should be granted sovereignty over the islands of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina...

Alleged Columbia Narcotics Trafficker Extradited to the United States
Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher has announced that Carlos Mario Jimenez-Naranjo, has been extradited from Colombia to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. Jimenez-Naranjo faces drug-related charges in the District of Columbia and the Southern District of Florida...

House of Lords: No Extradition to US for Price Fixing
In the aftermath of the international Graphite Electrodes cartel, the US sought the extradition of former Morgan Crucible Co. Chief Executive Officer Ian Norris from the UK on the theory that price fixing is a criminal conspiracy to defraud (which is punishable both in the US and in the UK)...

Fourth Amendment no application in international extraditions
The Fourth Amendment has no application in an international extradition proceeding. [Although here, the court grants a conditional extradition based on the assurances of the requesting country that a new trial will be given on extradition because the fugitive was tried in absentia even in apparent violation of the requesting country's constitution...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

FDA
Halts Importation of Drugs Manufactured Offshore By Ranbaxy

Fire Chief Whistleblower
City of DuPont agrees to $72,000 resignation and severance settlement.

Suspended and Fired
Town of Alton agrees to pay former police chief $10,000 wrongful termination settlement.

Police Chief Whistleblower
Argentine Township agrees to pay former employee $650,000 harassment and retaliation settlement.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation