Search

A sheaf of documents that a federal court forced the Treasury Department to release indicate there have been repeated complaints from American consumers who have been falsely linked to terrorism or drug trafficking during routine credit checks, the organization that sought the documents in a lawsuit said Tuesday. The more than 100 pages of documents released Monday to the organization, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, include a variety of complaints about the list maintained by the Office of Foreign Asset Control in the Treasury Department, said Philip Hwang, a lawyer for the group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lawyers for Tim Donaghy, the disgraced N.B.A. referee who is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, argued in court papers filed Monday that his sentence should be limited because he had no control of his gambling habit. In the court papers, the lawyers presented an examination of Donaghy by a gambling treatment expert, who concluded that Donaghy was a pathological gambler who placed wagers because of his ''underlying need for 'action.' '' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A list of witnesses who could be called to testify against Woody Allen, below, in his lawsuit against the clothing maker American Apparel is becoming as familiar and self-referential as the director's films. Reuters reported that in court papers filed on Monday, lawyers for Mr. Allen asked a court to prevent American Apparel from calling Soon-Yi Previn, his wife, and Mia Farrow, his former companion and Ms. Previn's mother, at a trial scheduled to begin in New York on May 18. Mr. Allen is suing American Apparel, asserting that it improperly used a still image of him from ''Annie Hall'' in billboards and online advertisements. A lawyer for American Apparel has said that he would bring up elements of Mr. Allen's personal history at the trial; the filmmaker's lawyers said the tactics were ''part of a brutish attempt to smear and intimidate Mr. Allen,'' according to Reuters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article presents information on efforts undertaken by lawyers in the United States to get Mohammed Munaf, an American citizen who has been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court, come out of Iraq. Munaf was an accused of having involved in a conspiracy hatched to kidnap three Romanian journalists in Iraq. Munaf's Attorneys filed papers in a federal court in Washington in an attempt to prevent his transfer to the Iraqi government.