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Related to my posting yesterday, GAO Report – Company Formations: Minimal Ownership Information Is Collected and Available, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on November 14, 2006: Failure to Identify Company Owners Impedes Law Enforcement. The hearing “…examine[d] the issue of states routinely incorporating hundreds of thousands …
Press release: “Doing Business in Mexico 2007 is the second subnational report in the series Doing Business in Mexico. Last year, quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement were created for 12 cities and states. This year, Doing Business in Mexico 2007 covers all 31 states of the Mexican Republic and measures the progress …
Company Formations: Minimal Ownership Information Is Collected and Available, GAO-07-196T, and Highlights, November 14, 2006: “Most states do not require ownership information at the time a company is formed or on the annual and biennial reports most corporations and limited liability companies (LLC) must file. Four of the 50 states and the District of Columbia …
Washington University School of Law, St. Louis: “The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse is a collection of documents and information about civil rights cases in selected case categories across the United States. Currently, the categories include: Child Welfare, Election/Voting Rights, Immigration, Jail Conditions, Juvenile Institution, Mental Health Facility, Mental Retardation Facility, Nursing Home Conditions, Police Non-Profiling, …
Dates of Supreme Court Decisions, 1791-1882: Dates of Early Supreme Court Decisions and Arguments: 2 Dall. Through 107 U.S. (168 pages, PDF), prepared by Anne Ashmore, Supreme Court Library, August 2006 [via Kent Olson].
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission announced today that Commission actions from the past 37 years, including documents previously available to the general public only in book form, are now available on the agency’s Web site. These volumes more than 70,000 pages covering 1969 through 2005 contain virtually all administrative documents issued by …
Via CyberJournalist.net, news that Washingtonpost.com’s advanced news search engine has been expanded, and now offers free article archive access within the last 60 days. The archive search page, from 1877 – present, is here.
Developments in Legal Outsourcing and Offshoring, by Ron Friedmann and Joy London CongressLine: New Congressional Leadership, by Paul Jenks Using RSS to Create and Enhance Current Awareness Services, by Jason Eiseman Deal or No Deal Licensing & Acquiring Digital Resources: License Negotiations, by Kara Phillips Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys – Do Something …
U.S. Courts press release: “A total of 117 languages required interpretation in federal court proceedings in fiscal year 2006 (the 12-month period ending September 30, 2006). The overwhelming majority 95 percent of the 205,550 language-interpreting events were in Spanish…Other frequently used languages were Mandarin (1,480 events) Vietnamese (988), Arabic (908), Korean (871), Cantonese …
Press release: “In response to an ongoing lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the CIA has acknowledged the existence of two documents authorizing it to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects overseas. For more than two years, the CIA had refused to either deny or confirm the existence of the documents and had argued …
Press release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today announced that investors are now able to search the contents of the disclosure documents filed electronically with the SEC using a new full-text search tool on the Commission’s website. The newly searchable information includes registration statements, annual and quarterly reports, and other filings by companies …
Follow-up to previous postings related to the DOJ’s subpoena early this year, to obtain Google search data, news via Seth Finkelstein, posted copies of the following reports (PDF) released today: Main Report of Philip B. Stark, Ph.D, 8 May 2006, Redacted, ACLU v. Gonzales, Civ. Action No. 98-5591 Supplement: Rebuttal Expert Report and rule 26(e) …
