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This article focuses on a case of a criminal Lori Berenson. During the nearly five years of her incarceration, much has been written in the United States about Lori Berenson, on how the daughter of liberal, academic parents turned a youthful concern for social justice into a committed passion. Although there have been some reports focusing on Berenson's work with leftist organizations in Central America, little is known about the circumstances of her arrest in Peru. But mention the name Lori Berenson to Peruvians, and the face most of them see in their minds is the one that appeared on their television sets on January 8, 1996, when she was presented to the press by the police, making her first public statement since her arrest.

The author asks that how does a self-described free speecher help the cause by bringing libel charges against the one American newspaper that considers the First Amendment a personal bequest from the Framers? Respect for the facts of the writer Dan Moldea's case confronts any free-expression realist with uncomfortable answers. The unholy mess of Moldea v. The New York Times, in which Moldea fights for the right to answer an attack on his book and the Times hides behind the First Amendment while suppressing his voice, developed because of a fundamental division at the heart of The New York Times. The free-expression thinking should be forced to accommodate that fact. Unlike The Washington Post Book World, for instance, the Times Book Review does not list the names of its editors on a masthead.

The article analyzes a case involving French subsidiary of the Scott Paper Co., a U.S. corporation, where European Court of Justice rules that EC Commission's letter of inquiry to French Republic about possibly unlawful state aid to subsidiary tolled ten-year limitation period. The Scott Paper Company, acquired Bouton Brochard, a company governed by French law in 1969; it then set up a separate company, Bouton Brochard Scott S.A. to take over the business of Bouton Brochard. On September 30, 1998, the Commission officially published its decision to launch the procedure for investigating state aids provided for in Article 93(2) of the EC Treaty.

Presents brief reports of international legal developments compiled as of June 2001. Singapore High Court ruling against Asia Pulp & Paper Co.; Belgian court conviction of several Rwandans for taking part in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi tribe; United States Department of State certification of nations allowed to import shrimp.

Focuses on the legendary Saint Nicholas as the subject of top-secret documents, lawsuits, scientific curiosity and trademark battles. Declassification of the classified document "Santa Claus Papers," by U.S. President George W. Bush; Appeal by the Turkish Santa Claus Foundation for the Italian government with regard to the bones of Saint Nicholas; Lawsuit filed by former Cincinnati Solicitor Richard Ganulin for the abolition of December 25 as Christmas Day.

Reasons that the use of paper in law offices is important in providing and acquiring information. Comparison of using a paper dictionary over a digital dictionary; Production of legal documents to be used in litigation; Existence of the subtitles of information on paper.

The article focuses on the decision of the Russian Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmentalists from Greenpeace Russia, who were trying to contest the government's January 2010 decree allowing Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill (BPPM) to operate within the world-famous nature reserve. The government decree lifts the ban on the production of cellulose, paper and cardboard with the use of waste-free systems of industrial water usage.

The article discusses about the case of Maquoketa Sentinel-Presss won the legal suit under First Amendment protections, which demanded that Jackson County Assistant Attorney Amanda Lassance turn over a sheriff's deputy's body camera footage from traffic stop that involved Lassance, a carful of beer cans and slurred words.

Discusses various aspects related to presidential papers in the U.S. and how former President Richard Nixon might benefit from it. Lawsuit filed by Nixon against the U.S. government in which he demanded that it pay him for the estimated 42 million pages of Nixon presidential papers it holds at the National Archives; Market value of Nixon's papers; Discussion on the legal status of presidential papers throughout the ages; Reasons why Nixon is exempt from the clause that all presidential papers, starting with Ronald Reagan, are the property of the government in the first place; Significance of the Watergate scandal in the control exercised by Nixon over his presidential papers and the Watergate tapes.

The article concerns the legal proceedings in China against artist and activist Ai Weiwei beginning in 2011, involving charges of tax evasion. An introductory section describes the actions of the Chinese government in his case as unjust and devoid of due process. The remainder of the article presents a detailed analysis of the charges and legal proceedings in the case as of October 2012, with point-by-point refutations of the government's stated positions.

The article offers information on the factors that determine whether a summary judgment motion should be filed or not. It is stated that the decision involves careful strategy and detailed analysis. The factors that need to be considered are the applicable law, the client and the judge, and the overall strategy adopted. The author concludes that arbitrations are no longer less expensive.

In the continental law system, it is appropriate for judges to find relevant laws and consider rules defined in them when dealing with legal cases. Therefore, recommending relevant laws quickly and accurately based on case content is crucial in improving the efficiency of case processing. There have been researched works of recommender systems in various fields, but few of them lucubrates systems that recommend statutes for cases. To the best of our knowledge, there is no research on recommending statutes by modeling the relationship between case content and law content with interpretable hand-crafted features. In this paper, we define five novel types of features for calculating relevance between a case and a statute for resorting all statutes retrieved through collaborative filtering for the input case. Both pair-wise and list-wise ranking models are trained based on all these features for re-ranking the statutes list. Besides, we also test the combinations of different learning algorithms and popular pre-trained language models. Experimental results show that adopting the proposed novel features in pair-wise ranking achieves the best performance. It improves the recommendation recall of the Top 1 statute by almost 5% compared with the collaborative filtering approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the acts of John Jay as head of the U.S. Supreme Court that subjected him to trial. His public intervention in nonjudicial affairs proved his unneutrality. The Genêt affair in which he engaged himself with while head of the Supreme Court constituted a violation of law that resulted to a legal action against him.

Highlights the U.S. government information disclosure trial involving Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo. Prosecutors and defense lawyers who attended the trial; Details on the jury selection; Political implications of the case; Various comments on the trial.

The article focuses on shell companies. Topics discussed include shell companies litigation based on money laundering and tax evasion; Panama Papers leak as the largest global information data leak in history; business torts litigation; and Mossack Fonseca's statement on fostering and promote unlawful acts.

The pretrial hearing is made up of different procedures that respond to different phases that it goes through. Each phase corresponds to a function that pursues a certain purpose. From all these phases, the one I have come to call «dialectics» has been chosen for this paper. The introduction of factual and legal information in the ordinary declaratory civil process occurs in two moments: the main one, which corresponds to the governing writings, and the secondary or residual, which is precisely the aforementioned «dialectical phase» of the pretrial hearing. Its purpose is, in broad strokes, double. Allow a moderate extension of the contender's dialectical intersection. Correct, in a broad sense of the expression, what has been stated in writing up to now. The legal regulation of this «dialectical phase» is found in art. 426 of the Civil Procedure Law, whose study is the common thread of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about visit of woman to the memorial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on November 22, 2017, a day before the verdict in the trial of Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb commander, who was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Mentions that United States Congressional investigators are looking into the internal reports prepared by the Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone companies' experts for product-liability lawsuits dating back to the 1990s. Argument of the companies that documents related to tire-accident settlements are protected by attorney-client privilege; Why portions of the documents will be blacked out.

Presents news briefs on Asia as of March 2001. Victory of the political party Thai Rak Thai in the election in Thailand; Publication of the book `Tiananmen Papers'; Tribunals against the members of the former communist Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot.

Reports on a ruling by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court that the refusal of International Paper Company to consider medical evidence submitted by a former employee who filed for permanent disability retirement benefits is arbitrary and capricious. Details on an appeal by the plaintiff; Background on the case.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Greece's former national statistician, Andreas Georgiou, lost his right to a fair trial in 2018 when his appeal against a conviction for "violation of duty" was rejected by a Greek court. This ruling allows Georgiou to request a reopening of the case in Greece, potentially leading to his conviction being overturned. Georgiou's conviction stemmed from his refusal in 2010 to allow the approval of revised deficit numbers for Greece during a debt crisis. The ECHR recommended that domestic proceedings be reopened to examine the request for a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union. In another development, a fundraising campaign was successful in supporting the researchers behind Data Colada, a blog that exposed data tampering in papers co-authored by a Harvard professor. The researchers are facing a defamation lawsuit and have raised over $330,000 for their legal defense. Additionally, claims characterizing South Africa as the "rape capital of the world" have been debunked by fact-checking agency Africa Check, which argues that different legal definitions of rape and incomplete reporting skew statistics. Lastly, C.R. Rao, a renowned Indian mathematician and statistician, passed away at the age of 102. Rao made significant contributions to the field, including the Cramér–Rao lower bound and the Rao–Blackwell theorem. [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on the copyright lawsuit filed by Lotus Development Corporation against Paperback Software in Boston, Massachusetts. Interpretation on the decision of Judge Keeton on the case; Effects of the decision on the development of competitive software products; Historical background of the companies.

The article discusses cases filed before U.S. courts where the petitioners invoked safe harbor defense provided for in Section 546 (e) of the Bankruptcy Code. The cases involved Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., Quebecor World (USA) Inc. and Madoff Securities on separate appeals invoking the said provision on chapter 11 debtor's prepetition payments as duly constituting settlement payments. The article explains the rulings made by the courts and the conditions where Section 546 (e) applies.

Rather than undertaking a detailed analysis on specific issues, the purpose of this paper is providing a clear and systematic overview of collective litigation and clearing up the fundamental features that should preside over its regulation in order to give an adequate answer to the main problems that plague legislators and scholarship in relation to the legal regime of collective actions, particularly in areas such as those related to procedural standing, to the coordination between the collective proceeding and the exercise of related individual actions, to the reach of res judicata etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a declaration filed by the U.S.-based Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the federal court as of October 2001 regarding Felten v. Recording Industry Association of America case. Researcher Edward Felten and his fellow researchers at Princeton University, had entered a contest sponsored by Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), inviting people to attempt to crack certain technologies they were considering for use in their computer system. These technologies were defeated by Felten and his fellow researchers in the challenge. The paper of the researchers "Reading Between the Lines: Lessons From the SDMI Challenge," presented by them in a symposium in August 2001, is threatened under the anticircumvention provisions of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The concern of ACM in this regard, is that one of ACM's primary goals is, in submitting a declaration to minimize the possibility of being a defendant in some future anticircumvention case. The declaration describes ACM, its scholarly activities relating to publishing and the holding of conferences, and the potential implications of the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA on what ACM does.

The article discusses the decision of a New York appellate court in the case "974 Anderson LLC v. Davis" in which the court ruled in favor the landlord and ruled to evict apartment occupants, claiming that they were licensees or squatters.

The article reports the decision of a New York trial court in a case "152 W. 162 Street LLC v. Services for the Underserved" in which the court approved the landlord's action to evict rent-controlled tenant for nonprimary residence.

Provides information on the claim of Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician on his design used on Kimberly-Clark's Kleenex bathroom tissue. What the suit calls for.

Placed in the ordinary civil declaratory proceedings, and more specifically, in the moment of the preliminary hearing before the trial, the Law grants the parties the possibility of ruling on the expert opinions presented at the request of the adverse party. The legal regulation barely makes it possible to know what the pronouncement consists of, what precise content it has and what consequences it entails. This paper aims to respond to these questions and others that are opened when trying to develop this procedure in its entiretylaw. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the treatment of the U.S. government over the impoverished and neglected American Indians with emphasis on their claims in Maine. Discussion on the past and present activities related to a claim for some 10 million acres of land made by Indians of Maine which is owned by big paper companies; Difficulties associated with bringing the tribes and the state at an amicable settlement; Citation of efforts of non-Indian lawyer Tom Tureen in achieving the successes for Indians in the case.

This article reports on a series of lawsuits filed against Hollinger International Inc.. Including the lawsuit before Delaware's Chancery Court last week, there are at least 10 legal actions swirling around Hollinger International Inc. and its former CEO, Conrad Black. With all the complicated claims and counterclaims, it's easy to lose sight of what is at the heart of the controversy: the 1998-2001 sales of most of Hollinger's newspapers for roughly US $3 billion. The complaints, including one by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, make serious allegations about how the sales were negotiated and structured, how they were approved (or not approved), and who benefited. Conrad Black denies any wrongdoing, and claims any payments he received from non-compete agreements had previously been approved.

The article reports on a lawsuit filed against Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School by cardiac stem cell scientist Piero Anversa. Topics covered include the focus of the complaint on the institutions' deal with stem cell firm Autologous/Progenital. Also mentioned is the alleged misconduct of scientist Jan Kajstura.

The article reports on the claim of tenant for improper service of court papers after landlord filed an eviction for nonprimary residence, in which the court ruled for the landlord since the tenant's claim was waived due to the declaration of counterclaims.

The aim of this paper is to analyze how the low prosecution of the crime of false testimony affects on the guarantees system of the due process and on the credibility of the witness testimony evidence as a whole. It is also analyzed the causes and motives that explain such a relative low prosecution of false testimony. In light of the whole analysis, the authors outline some proposals addressed to fostering a higher proactivity in prosecuting false testimony offenses in order to avoid a weakening effect on procedural guarantees and reinforce the realiability on witness testimony evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Profiles Goodloe and Jean Sutton, reporters for `The Democrat-Reporter' in Linden, Alabama. How the two reported the crimes of local sheriff Roger Davis; Arrest and conviction of Davis on money skimming charges; Reaction of the town to the Sutton's news coverage of Davis's actions; Awards the couple has received for the series of stories as well as Pulitzer Prize consideration.

Profiles Evelyn Knoob, who reported that Blue Cross-Blue Shield in Illinois was shredding unprocessed claims. Details of the crime she witnessed involving her boss Donald Heinle; Psychological effect the crime had on Knoob; Reasons she came forward; Criminal sentencing of Heinle; Amount of money Knoob could receive for reporting the crime.

Presents how paperwork violations became a boom industry for federal prosecutors in the United States. Cases where government disrupts the life of individuals with its false claims; Why the federal prosecutors displayed moral turpitude when they accused Ben Lacy, an apple cider producer in Virginia, of false claims; Why the airbag debate is a perfect example of how the government exist.

The article focuses on issues concerning computer privacy in the U.S. Privacy in the digital age is dead. At best, one of the most cherished rights as members of a free society is on life support, kept alive by cybercratic ramblings of an electronic fringe unable to come to grips with reality. Readers are certainly savvier than the newly minted America Online Inc. subscriber. Intimate knowledge of e-mail's inherent lack of privacy is a dangerous thing. It leads to complacency. Given that, most not know how to launch a drive to unionize the workplace using the company email system, to abstain from saying "bad things" about the boss, or sending dirty jokes. Scores of employees, from product managers to chief executive officers, are now busy defending emails they wrote years ago in the courtroom where the government is prosecuting Microsoft Corp. for alleged antitrust violations. Indeed, much of the government's case is drawn from the electronic paper trail of corporate email.

The article discusses statements made by media for many celebrity people against the rules and laws such as publications made for finances of President Donald Trump in book "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald" by Tim O'Brien. It also mentions Supreme Court wrote that false and damaging statement about New York City commissioner L. B. Sullivan was published by "New York Times" paper, and statements made about the founder of company PayPal Peter Thiel.

In this article, the author focuses on the Center for Constitutional Rights (C.C.R.) The C.C.R.'s suits are stirring gestures of legal aikido, using U.S. law as a weapon against U.S. foreign policy. But wielding U.S. legal power over officials of other nations is at best an ambiguous and imperial solution to crimes that at once embody and transcend national interests. Torturers and death squads carry out their crimes under a triple shield of immunity. They are protected against the paper laws of their own countries; they enjoy the patronage of large corporations and powers, principally but not exclusively the U.S. government.

Reports on the litigation of Esther Neuman for violations of the Alberta Animal Pedigree Act. Alleged failure to provide customers with pedigree papers of poodles; Fines to be charged upon conviction; History of Neuman's breeding operation.

This paper examines the right and left wing media coverage of the Robert Latimer case, arguing that, in particular, the leftwing progressive portrayal of this case not only creates a "preferred version and vision of social order" (Ericson, Baranek, & Chan,1991, p. 4), but also affirms a utilitarian ethics and a normative framework of reference that can be used in the courts of law to argue for the voluntary and, more importantly, the nonvoluntary euthanasia of "defective" and "deformed" individuals. We further argue that publications of the religious right, most notably Alberta Report, have countered this normative framework of utilitarian ethics by consistently providing space for Tracy Latimer's story to be told. We conclude this paper with consideration of an alternative ethics that develops Paul Woodruff's call for a politics and practice of reverence, a secular, as opposed to a religious, praxis that is inclusive and appreciative of all human difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents news briefs related to workforce management as of May 8, 2006. Weyerhaeuser Co. operated a paper mill in Oklahoma for which Kellogg, Brown & Root and Kenny Industrial provided contract maintenance employees. Employees if a Chicago, Illinois restaurant filed suit against their employer, Tim's Time, for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Reports on Equatorial New Guinea's failure to obtain disclosure of documents it needs for its case against the alleged coup plotters of March 2004. Role of the British firm Penningtons as legal advisors to the government and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo; Search for disclosure of accounts and safe deposits held by Systems Design and Logo, companies said to be fronts for the alleged plot; Civil action pursued against the alleged plotters.

Presents information on the U.S. Supreme Court case Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada. Possible effect of the victory of Larry Hiibel.

Reports on the controversy over the confiscation of notes from the lawyers visiting Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, chief executive officer of Yukon Oil Corp., in jail in Moscow, Russia. Reaction of the Moscow Bar Association to the confiscation; Implications of the confiscation issue for the professional rights of the lawyers; Possibility of the notes to hamper the criminal investigation of Khodorkovsky.

Highlights the education issues discussed at various newspapers in Great Britain as of September 2003. Plans of the government to lower level entry to university for students from socially disadvantaged areas; Explanation of a spokesman on the changes in national tests; Decision of the court on the manslaughter case of teacher Paul Ellis.

Reports that the newspaper 'The Cincinnati Enquirer' has sued the Cincinnati, Ohio's school board and its superintendent Alton Frailey over the secretive process. Reason for sueing the school board and Frailey; Appointment of new superintendent for the school board.