Executive Order Protecting Property Rights
June 23, 2006- Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People – related to Supreme Court decision, June 23, 2005 – Kelo v. City of New London, No. 04-108.
Category «Courts»
Appeals Court Rules Against SEC on Hedge Fund Oversight
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 04-1434a Goldstein, Phillip vs. SEC SEC, 17 CFR Parts 275 and 279,[Release No. IA-2333; File No. S7-30-04] RIN 3235-AJ25, Registration Under the Advisers Act of Certain Hedge Fund Advisers, Final Rule. “In a controversial move in late 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided to require …
Online Archive of Enron Documents and Multimedia Files
From the chron.com, their comprehensive Enron coverage and Enron Corp. Background, documents, profiles, photos and multimedia coverage of the Enron scandal, investigations and criminal prosecutions.
Commentary Supports Foundation for NSA FOIA Lawsuit
Related to previous postings on government telephone surveillance, see this recent commentary, ACLU v. National Security Agency: Why the “State Secrets Privilege” Shouldn’t Stop the Lawsuit Challenging Warrantless Telephone Surveillance of Americans, by John Dean.
Continued Warnings About Use of Social Security Numbers and Rise of ID Theft
Follow-up to recent postings VA ID theft and the continuous reports on government and corporate enterprise data breaches, see this Gartner press release: Gartner Says Rash of Personal Data Thefts Shows Social Security Numbers Can No Longer Be Sole Proof of Identity for Enterprises. According to Gartner VP Avivah Litan, “Companies should not rely on …
DOJ Sues NJ AG Who Is Seeking Docs. on Telecom's Data Sharing With NSA
ABC reports that DOJ has filed suit in NJ District Court (Trenton) seeking an injunction to prevent the NJ attorney general from obtaining records on data that carriers provided in conjunction with the domestic surveillance program.
ACLU Files Suit to Obtain Domestic Surveillance Info on Peace Groups
Press release: “The lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by the national ACLU and its affiliates in Florida, Georgia, Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania and Washington. The lawsuit charges that the Defense Department is refusing to comply with national Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking records on …
Arguments Heard on Constitutionality of NSA Domestic Surveillance
Arguments by the DOJ (Anthony J. Coppolino) and the ACLU were heard today in U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan. The government maintains that the domestic surveillance program is legal.
Federal Court Decision Facilitates Government Wiretapping of IP Services
CDT: “A federal appeals court today ruled 2-1 that telephone regulators and the FBI can control the design of Internet services in order to make government wiretapping easier. The decision (29 pages, PDF), which is damaging both to civil liberties and technology innovation, came in a case in which CDT joined with a coalition of …
D.C. Court of Appeals Oral Arguments Now Available Online
Press release: “The public may now listen to arguments held before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals without having to attend in person, thanks to new technology instated June 7 that provides real-time audio coverage via web streaming. Similar technology has been put in place in 21 states including California, Florida, New York, and …
Courts Compliance With E-Government Act Nearly Total
Press release: “For 2006, the Judiciary reports to Congress that each of the nearly 200 federal courts have websites and the vast majority of those sites satisfy or exceed all of the currently applicable requirements of the E-Government Act of 2002. By statute, a report on court compliance with the Act must be submitted to …
National Journal Continues to Explore Ashcroft's Role in Plame CIA Leak Investigation
What Ashcroft Was Told, By Murray Waas, National Journal, June 8, 2006 “Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft continued to oversee the Valerie Plame-CIA leak probe for more than two months in late 2003 after he learned in extensive briefings that FBI agents suspected White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of trying to …
