Contractors Sued Over Abu Ghraib Abuses
The Legal Intelligencer
Acting on behalf of more than 1,000 Iraqi detainees, a national team of
11 lawyers filed a
civil RICO class action in federal court Wednesday against Titan Corp.
and CACI
International for allegedly conspiring in the abuse of prisoners at
Abu Ghraib prison. "These corporations saw an opportunity to build their
businesses by proving they could extract information from detainees in
Iraq,
by any means necessary," says attorney Susan L. Burke.
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Deadbeat Dads Face Ban on Procreation
The National Law Journal
Have your funds clipped or yourself ... snipped. Such, increasingly, are the
legal choices facing men who owe child support. A Kentucky family court
judge has given repeat offenders who are in contempt the option of a
vasectomy or 30 days' jail time. And courts elsewhere in the United States
are placing similar conception limits on parents. At least one legal adviser
predicts the issue will eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Higher Recovery Cap Allowed for Funds Lost in Investment Scam
New York Law Journal
Investors who were deceived into buying nonexisting money market funds
can
make "claims for securities" through the Securities Investor Protection
Corp., a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Addressing an issue of
first
impression, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the victimized
investors, many of them elderly, could not be limited to the $100,000
cash
advance cap for "claims for cash" in the Securities Investor Protection
Act.
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Tension Increases Between Special Counsel and Conn. Defense Bar
The Connecticut Law Tribune
A Connecticut House committee is in a pitched battle with Gov. John G.
Rowland, and tension is nearly as great between Steven Reich and the
white-collar criminal defense bar. Reich, the committee's special counsel,
caused his first stir by not being a Connecticut attorney. Now,
disgruntlement has reportedly grown into full-blown animosity, especially
from lawyers whose clients face a grand jury probe. Oh, and did we mention
Reich is from New York?
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Probe Sought of Fla. Response to Voting Machine Woes
Miami Daily Business Review
What do they know and when did they know it? That's what U.S. Rep. Robert
Wexler wants the Florida AG to determine about the secretary of state's
awareness of problems with touch-screen voting machines. The congressman
also questions the timing of election chief Ed Kast's resignation. Kast
abruptly quit two weeks after being deposed for Wexler's suit over the
voting machines, which the congressman says violate state law because they
can't do recounts.
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Sometimes a Cigar Is Just ... Jail Time
A Roundup of Legal News
A lawyer/cigar smuggler's freedom went up in smoke Wednesday: Chicago attorney Richard "Mick" Connors was sentenced to over three years in federal prison for "trading with the enemy" -- i.e., smuggling thousands of Cuban cigars into the U.S. and reselling them during the '90s cigar fad. The judge, noting Connors' familiarity with ways to flee the country, ordered him into custody immediately ... A proposed national ID card allowing extensive records to be kept and tracked on individuals has run into problems in the UK. Britain's Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, says the amount of information in the cards' database -- including biometric data -- would be taking things an unprecedented step too far, not to mention the fact that that much data would be a "very, very attractive proposition for criminals" ... Lea Fastow won't do time at "Club Fed." The wife of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow learned Tuesday that she'll spend her yearlong prison sentence in Houston's Federal Detention Center, rather than in a campuslike minimum-security facilty -- which means a grim and confining sojourn working a menial job for 12 to 40 cents an hour, with few privileges and maximim security treatment ... Two news organizations have filed motions to quash subpoenas issued by a special prosecutor investigating the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity. Subpoenaed in the matter, which concerns Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA operative married to former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson -- a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy -- were Tim Russert, of NBC's "Meet the Press," and Time reporter Matt Cooper. Due to DOJ guidelines requiring exhaustion of all other avenues of inquiry first, the move to seek journalists' testimony may mean the investigation is near completion. --Lydia Markoff
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The Trouble With TiVo
IP Law & Business
Digital video recorders like TiVo are hot. But the eye-popping
technology
that has made TiVo's name now brings it peril. Faced with heated
competition, TiVo's betting big on a high-risk patent infringement suit
and
some high-stakes licensing deals. At the same time, TiVo risks the wrath
of
patent owners and content providers who may hamper its ability to
innovate
and compete. How these matters turn out will most likely make or break
TiVo.
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