Nigeria: Task Force Arrests Three Illegal Revenue Collectors in Anambra
Three persons allegedly involved in illegal revenue collection in Onitsha markets and parks have been arrested by the Anambra State Task Force on revenue collection. More »
Nigeria: Angry Youths Destroy Njibaa's Family Home Over Murder of Anaele
Scores of angry youths of Okwu Amaeze, Obibiezena, Owerri North local government area of Imo State, have destroyed the Njibaa family home, in response to the gruesome murder of Sylvester Anaele by Reginald Njibaa. More »
Nigeria: Delta CP Goes Tough On Erring Policemen
Delta State Police Commissioner, Mr. Jacob Oshiomogho says four policemen found wanting have been dismissed within the last one month, just as he vowed that he would not cover up the five policemen arrested in connection with the killing of a young graduate at a police check point in Agbor recently. More »
Nigeria: Intels Boss Shot Dead in Port Harcourt
The Deputy General Manager of Integrated Logistics Services, INTELS, Ltd. Mr. Chuks Ihuoma has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. More »
Nigeria: Ekiti Assembly, Police Boss Fight Robbery Attacks
Worried by the spate of armed robbery incidents in various parts of the state, Ekiti State House of Assembly yesterday invited the state Police Commissioner (CP), Mr. Chris Ola, to deliberate on stemming the tide. More »
DOJ Accuses UBS Exec of Helping Conceal Billions From IRS
In an expanding probe of investment giant UBS, the Justice Department on Wednesday announced the indictment of the Swiss bank's chairman of global wealth management, accusing him of playing a key role in a tax evasion scheme to shelter secret U.S. account holders from income tax bills and drive up bank revenue. Raoul Weil, who oversaw the Swiss bank's cross-border private banking business serving 20,000 U.S. clients, helped conceal a combined $20 billion in assets from the IRS, the indictment charged. More »
Supreme Court Justices Hear Arguments in Religious Monument Case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to give its blessing to a Utah town that rejected a small religious sect's request to install a monument on public park land, even though the town accepted a Ten Commandments display in the same park 32 years earlier. During oral argument in the case, most justices seemed to oppose the idea that by accepting one, Pleasant Grove City had to accept the other because of the First Amendment's bar against content-based speech discrimination by the government. More »
Three LCD Makers Plead Guilty in Antitrust Probe
Three corporate guilty pleas in a long-running Justice Department antitrust investigation sent white-collar lawyers scrambling Wednesday to figure out what it might portend for other companies, and for individual executives. Federal prosecutors announced big fines for price fixing in the LCD computer and television screen industry. South Korea's LG Display got hit hardest, agreeing to pay $400 million in what the government described as the second-biggest antitrust fine ever. More »
Skadden Sues Thelen to Shift Liability
As law firms look to take advantage of Thelen's pending demise through hiring, Skadden is looking to offload potential liability in a six-year dispute. The day after Thelen announced it would likely dissolve, Skadden sued the collapsing firm. A defendant to a suit that evolved out of the bankruptcy of the Loewen Group funeral group company, Skadden says if the court rules against it, Thelen -- Loewen's legal counsel -- should be held to blame and forced to pay all damages. More »
Ousted Name Partner Retains Venable for Possible Claims Against Cohen Milstein
More details continue to surface about Michael Hausfeld's abrupt departure last week from Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll. Hausfeld tells More »
Breakfast at Howrey's Sealed Moves of Thelen Construction Lawyers
After a breakfast meeting Monday at Howrey's San Francisco office, the bulk of Thelen's construction group chose to join the 750-lawyer litigation firm. Howrey announced Wednesday that more than 40 lawyers from the dissolving Thelen would be joining Howrey by Dec. 1. The group -- which Howrey characterized as "most of the construction practice" from Thelen -- includes firm Chairman Stephen O'Neal, construction practice head John Heisse II and partner David Buoncristiani, who handles matters for Bechtel. More »
High Court Sides With Navy in Sonar Case
As expected, the Supreme Court on Wednesday, in the first decision handed down this term, supported the Navy's efforts to free itself from some of the judicially imposed restrictions on its sonar training exercises off the California coast. More »
Three More Former Heller Lawyers Join Foley
Three former Heller Ehrman attorneys with life sciences and intellectual property specialties have joined Foley & Lardner's San Diego office, bringing to 13 the number of former Heller lawyers to jump to Foley in the last month. Richard Kaufman, David Charapp and Leslie Overman join as partner, special counsel, and registered patent attorney, respectively. More »
Obama Team Expected to Broker Deal on Subpoenas Over U.S. Attorney Firings
A long legal dispute between the White House and Congress over testimony by President Bush's aides probably will be resolved under the incoming Obama administration, former government lawyers from both political parties agreed Wednesday. At issue is whether the Democratic-led Congress can force top Bush aide Joshua Bolten and former aide Harriet Miers to testify in front of lawmakers or hand over documents about the 2006 firings of nine U.S. Attorneys, which Democrats believe were politically motivated. More »
Report Criticizes Office That Allocates Resources to U.S. Attorneys
The federal office that oversees resource allocation to the 94 U.S. Attorney offices nationally has no objective process to determine staffing levels, uses unreliable data and is unable to reallocate jobs between districts, according to an audit report released Tuesday by the Office of Inspector General. Citing inconsistent, inaccurate records kept by the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the OIG report said its findings raise "significant concerns" about the data used by EOUSA. More »
Prosecution: Courtroom Shooter Is Still a Danger
Lead prosecutor Kellie Hill's message to jurors was sharp on Wednesday: Brian G. Nichols must be put to death not only because he was convicted of heinous crimes but also because he poses a danger to society at large if he is left alive. "He is somebody who doesn't believe the rules apply to him," she said. But defense lawyer Henderson Hill urged jurors to take a look at the entirety of his client's life, asking them to "consider the facts that might make life a more appropriate option." More »
Gay Marriage Now Legal in Connecticut
While there's anger and recriminations in California's gay-rights movement after voters there banned same-sex marriage, gay couples in Connecticut are at the opposite extreme: They're getting ready to exchange vows. Gay marriage is legal in Connecticut now that a judge has cleared the way. New Haven Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert ruled at a brief hearing Wednesday morning that gay and lesbian couples now may pick up marriage license forms at town and city clerks' offices statewide. More »
Eversheds Reviews 45 Jobs in Second Consultation
Eversheds has launched its second redundancy consultation this year in a move likely to affect 45 transactional fee earners. The consultation, which began Wednesday, will focus on the firm's M&A, finance and insurance teams and will have an impact on up to 45 fee earners and additional support staff across the firm's U.K. offices. The firm is still in the process of an ongoing consultation in regards to its real estate group, launched Sept. 4, which could see 33 lawyers laid off. More »
Supreme Court Rules for Navy in Use of Sonar
The U.S. Supreme Court is lifting restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar in training exercises in the Pacific Ocean, a defeat for environmental groups who say the sonar can harm whales. The court, in its first decision of the term, voted 5-4 that the Navy needs to conduct realistic training exercises to respond to potential threats by enemy submarines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by three other conservative justices and the swing vote of Anthony Kennedy. More »
Ghana: PNC to Fight Corruption Through Transparent Governance
Dr Edward Nasigri Mahama, presidential candidate of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), has pledged to fight corruption in all sectors of the economy through a transparent government when elected into office. More »
Time Magazine Editor-at-large to Speak at Venture Forum Conference
A week from today Josh Quittner, editor-at-large for Time Magazine, will be the featured speaker at the 2008 Arkansas Venture Forum Conference, organizers announced recently. More »
Nigeria: Govt Officials Are Sabotaging MDGs Programme - SSA
It has been observed that the Millennium Development Goas (MDG) programme in Bauchi State would not succeed unless urgent steps were taken by Governor Isa Yuguda to address the problem that is hindering the activities of the agency. More »
Nigeria: NDLEA Destroys 5,000 Kilogrammes of Narcotic Drugs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has publicly destroyed 5,154,295 Kilogrammes of narcotic drugs in Kano metropoils. More »
Nigeria: Ghost Workers Paid Million in Cross Rivers
Cross River State Government is losing close to one million of Naira monthly to ghost workers in secondary schools and related institutions and establishment in the state. More »
Nigeria: Defence Chief Orders Probe of Naval Ratingi's Assault On Lady
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, yesterday in Abuja ordered a full investigation of the assault on Miss Uzoma Okere by Navy personnel in Lagos last Monday. More »