I am quoted in the following article which appeared February 7th in the St. Augustine Record and was written by Tiffany Pakkala .   The Manuel Tapes He's guilty — but was he set up? Legal experts differ There is no shadow of a doubt that former St. Johns County Commissioner Tom Manuel ...

Europe Defense Contractor BAE Systems to Plead Guilty to Bribes - ABC NewsEurope's largest defense contractor , U.K -based BAE Systems and the Justice Department have reached a settlement in a wide ranging bribery investigation that spans back to the 1990s. Under the settlement, the firm is expected ...

As judge of the El Paso Criminal District Court No. 1, Manuel Barraza sentenced defendants convicted of crimes to prison. But Barraza now faces his own sentencing day. On Thursday, a federal jury convicted Barraza of two counts of wire...

By Michelle Roberts THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAREDO, Texas — The accused hit man on trial in this Texas-Mexico border city was a midlevel thug working for drug cartels, authorities say, but the rare public airing of charges has offered a glimpse into the Mexican Gulf Cartel’s U.S. operations. While auth ...

In Barbosa v. IMPCO Technologies, Inc. (November 30, 2009), the Court of Appeal held that the public policy in favor of an employer’s duty to pay overtime wages protects an employee from termination for making a good faith but mistaken claim to overtime. Manuel Barbosa was a shift leader who was pa ...

January - February 2010 Issue: The January/February 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains eight articles, two conference reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of int ...

Or, “Elwood on Adler on Dorf on Thomas on Noriega.”  As Jonathan Adler notes below, Michael Dorf comments favorably on the evenhandedness of Justice Thomas’s description in his dissent from denial of cert. of the arguments made by Manuel Noriega, even though Prof. Dorf presumes that Justice Thomas, ...

Update: " Mondrowitz Extradition Ruling Raises Questions." Jewish Week, January 26, 2010."According to criminal defense attorney Linda Friedman Ramirez, who has written extensively on extradition law and practice, the court’s denial of extradition after so much time has passed has merit. “If the gov ...

Adam Liptak has this must read post at "The Caucus" blog of the NY Times. Other CU commentary/news: Harvard Business Review Steven Ramirez (Corporate Justice Blog...

From the Washington Post, news that Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, is suing for the right to review a new documentary about him being produced for the French network Canal Plus. His attorney Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who is...