By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Bahamas court has rejected a U.S. bid to extradite a Czech-born financier on charges of plotting to bribe officials in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in the late 1990s to get favourable treatment in oil deals, officials said ...

Financial lessons are often best learned in retrospect, which can make it difficult to tell when you're going down the wrong financial path. Luckily, we can always learn from the mistakes of others. The Detroit News reports that former Detroit Lions lineman Luther Elliss was forced to file for bankr ...

Equal Danger, by the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia, is set in an unnamed country not, perhaps, entirely unlike Italy.  The hero, Rogas, goes to see President Riches of the Supreme Court.  As tactfully as he can, he suggests judicial error may have resulted in the conviction of ...

Good read in this morning's New York Times by Alex Williams explaining that a law degree from a top law school is no longer a ticket to riches in large law. Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa, an associate in 2006 at Pillsbury in San Francisco was willing to work mammoth hours "for the prospect of Caribbea ...

The quickly fading story of Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama’s “light skin” and “non-Negro dialect” offered an opportunity for the President to lead on the issue of race in America, and he passed. Back in March of 2008, given a similar opportunity to show ...

As we come to the end of the first tenth of the 21st century, pundits are making lists about the decade just past: the biggest stories, the worst movies. In that spirit, here’s a list of the top ten stories in bioethics. This isn’t an idle exercise. Bioethics matters. The field exerts tremendous i ...

A clip from The Daily Show involving Glenn Beck and gold has been making its rounds on the Internet lately. In the clip, Jon Stewart shows that Glenn Beck has been inciting fear and pushing gold investment on his Fox News show, while not disclosing that he is also a paid spokesman for Goldline. As J ...

If there's something uniquely American about the rags-to-riches-to-rags trope, it strikes us that there's something perhaps even more American about a rags-to-riches-to-rags-because-of-too-much-litigation story. According to an LAT article, such describes the fate of Guess Jeans founder Georges Marc ...

When we pray for "all sentient beings," does that include robots?This is one of the fascinating questions I explored on a radio show--to be featured within a few weeks--on the interplay of law, medicine, ethics, and spirituality. Here are my notes from the show. LAW AND TECHNOLOGY &m ...

When we pray for "all sentient beings," does that include robots?This is one of the fascinating questions I explored on a radio show--to be featured within a few weeks--on the interplay of law, medicine, ethics, and spirituality. Here are my notes from the show. LAW AND TECHNOLOGY &m ...