In its report released last week, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that Chicago-based Sidley Austin LLP transferred approximately $21 million for a government official, Teodor Obiang, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, who’d long been suspected of ...

Source: NLJ.com, February 8, 2010. Subscription required for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Snow Covers Washington Courts "Scenes from around Judiciary Square in downtown Washington today -- in case you are at home and wondering what it looks like." ...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has had to bring in hundreds of additional arbitrators to deal with the approximately 400 securities fraud claims that investors have filed against Regions Financial Corp., the investment banking unit of Morgan Keegan & Co. Investors are seeking to recover ...

As detailed in , today a "federal appeals court upheld Arkansas' lethal injection procedure ... [by affirming] the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three death-row inmates, including two who are scheduled to die over the next nine weeks."  The Eighth Circuit's panel ruling in , ...

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, William H. Pridemore, 51, of Quincy, Illinois was taken to the hospital after he was hit from behind by a 2007 Mack dump truck on the morning of December 28, 2009. This commercial trucking accident transpired on Missouri Highway 6, about two miles ea ...

Winston & Strawn has added two partners and a senior counsel to its New York office. Lawrence A. Larose and Samuel S. Kohn join as partners in the firm’s restructuring and insolvency group while William J. Grant has joined as senior counsel in the mergers and acquisitions practice. Larose, who w ...

With his longtime friend Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in the audience, Georgetown University Law Center professor Richard Lazarus was officially installed last week as the new William J. Brennan Jr. professor of law at the school. Lazarus, a member...

The title of this post is the headline of , which effectively reviews the robust legal and policy debates over whether restitution orders should be a big part of federal child porn sentencing proceedings.  Here are excerpts: this new AP piece The issue of criminal restitution in child porn ...

James Joyner plays dumb for some reason over Sarah Palin's Hand-gate: [T]his seems much ado about nothing. If Sarah Palin likes to write buzz words on her hand, so what? The problem is Joyner knows why it became political fodder. Look at his comment in the same thread: [. . .] Obama's tele ...

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