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US Courts: “The Judicial Conference has expressed concerns about proposed regulations issued by the Department of Justice for states seeking to qualify for expedited federal habeas corpus review procedures in capital cases. Concerns about the certification-implementation regulations proposed June 6, 2007, were aired in an August 1 letter from the Conference to DOJ. In 1996, …
DOT OIG Audit – FAA’s Actions Taken to Address Allegations of Unsafe Maintenance Practices at Northwest Airlines, September 28, 2007- Project ID: AV-2007-080 “Summary: On September 28, we issued our report on FAA’s actions taken to address allegations of unsafe maintenance practices at Northwest Airlines. These allegations were reported by an FAA Aviation Safety Inspector …
House Committee on the Budget hearing, Issues in Federal Government Financial Liabilities: Commercial Nuclear Waste, October 4, 2007: Testimony on the Federal Government’s Liabilities Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Combating Terrorism: Law Enforcement Agencies Lack Directives to Assist Foreign Nations, GAO-08-144T, October 4, 2007 Energy Efficiency: Opportunities Exist for Federal Agencies to Better Inform Household Consumers, GAO-07-1162, September 26, 2007 Environmental Right-To-Know: EPA’s Recent Rule Could Reduce Availability of Toxic Chemical Information Used to Assess Environmental Justice, GAO-08-115T, October 4, 2007 Global Health: U.S. …
Press release: “Joined by nationally recognized medical providers, health-management device manufacturers and patient advocacy organizations, Microsoft Corp. today launched Microsoft® HealthVault, a software and services platform aimed at helping people better manage their health information. The company outlined its vision for ways that HealthVault can bring the health and technology industries together to create new …
Google’s Law, Working Paper (2007), by Greg Lastowka, Rutgers University, Assistant Professor of Law: “Google has become, for the majority of Americans, the index of choice for online information. Through dynamically generated results pages keyed to a near-infinite variety of search terms, Google steers our thoughts and our learning online. It tells us what words …
Press release: “Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA – H.R. 2740) Expansion and Enforcement Act of 2007, despite the Bush Administration’s opposition, with a vote of 389-30. The bill, which passed through the House Judiciary Committee in August, makes private contractors working in combat zones like Iraq …
European Security Research Agenda: European Commission Working documents: Public-Private Dialogue in Security Research and Innovation: Summary of the Impact Assessment (SEC (2007); Public-Private Dialogue in Security Research and Innovation: Impact Assessment (SEC (2007) See also Security research to better combat terrorism
The United States Marshals Service Judicial Security Process, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2007-010, September 2007 (124 pages, PDF)
Journalists’ Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 109th and 110th Congresses, September 28, 2007 Campaign Finance: Developments in the 110th Congress, September 28, 2007 PEPFAR [President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief]: From Emergency to Sustainability, September 28, 2007 The Military Commissions Act of 2006: Analysis of Procedural Rules and Comparison with Previous …
Press release: “The value of U.S. imports receiving benefits under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) fell from $12.3 million in 2005 to $9.9 million in 2006, mainly because four Central American countries El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua left the CBERA when the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) entered into …
Boucher and Dingell Release First Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper, prepared by the Committee on Energy and Commerce committee staff, October 3, 2007 (22 pages, PDF): “This paper addresses the scope and coverage of the climate change program. It discusses what sectors and activities are directly emitting greenhouse gases, and how those emissions could …
