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The International Judicial Monitor is “an international law resource for judiciaries, justice sector professionals and the rule of law community. Published by the American Society of International Law and the International Judicial Academy. The current issue [July 2006, Volume 1, Issue 3] is now available online. See also the site’s links to additional International Resources.
The Economic Effects of Recent Increases in Energy Prices (36 pages, PDF) Report prepared by the Congressional Budget Office, July 2006.
U.S. News reports that an ABA task force is planning to escalate the debate on the president’s use of signing statements to bypass laws passed by Congress. “In a report to be released Monday, the [task force] will recommend that Congress pass legislation providing for some sort of judicial review of the signing statements.”
“At the urging of the Senate Finance Committee, the United States Congress mandated that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sponsor a study by the IOM to address the problem of medication errors. Preventing Medication Errors puts forward a national agenda for reducing medication errors based on estimates of the incidence and cost of such …
Press release: “The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today released survey results that demonstrate pervasive and dangerous political influence of science at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Of the 997 FDA scientists who responded to the survey, nearly one-fifth (18.4 percent) said that they “have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or …
Disaster Preparedness: Limitations in Federal Evacuation Assistance for Health Facilities Should be Addressed GAO-06-826, and Highlights, July 20, 2006. “Hurricane Katrina demonstrated difficulties involved in evacuating communities and raised questions about how hospitals and nursing homes plan for evacuations and how the federal government assists. Due to broad-based congressional interest, GAO assessed the evacuation of …
Press release: “A federal judge today denied the government’s motion to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) case against AT&T for collaborating with the NSA in illegal spying of millions of ordinary Americans. This allows the case to go forward in the courts.” Related postings on domestic surveillance programs
House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Staff report, To Secure America: The 9/11 Commission’s Homeland Security Recommendations (33 pages, PDF), “provides a side-by-side comparison of 9/11 Commission recommendations, notable action taken to realize these recommendations, and critical efforts that must still be accomplished.”
Press release: “Amnesty International (AI) today released a new report, “Undermining Freedom of Expression in China,” (32 pages, PDF) exposing how Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google have violated their stated corporate values and policies in pursuit of the potentially lucrative Chinese market. In sync with the report release, the organization unveiled irrepressible.info, a new campaign for …
USAToday.com reports that up to eight data mining programs have been deployed by intelligence agencies to mine financial and personal records in an effort to identify potential terrorist activities. Related postings on domestic surveillance programs
Fom Google Labs, Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged: “In addition to finding the most relevant results as measured by Google’s search algorithms, it further sorts results based on the simplicity of their page layouts.” Accessible Search FAQ Google Tests Accessible Search Page
A WSJ free featurea, this Mideast Crisis Tracker, launched on July 12, is “updated regularly with news on the Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon crisis, ET.”