BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentina on Monday [Nov. 26] appealed a U.S. court order to pay $1.3 billion to investors who rejected two debt restructurings tied to its 2002 sovereign debt crisis, amid fears that the country faces another default. S. District Judge Thomas Griesa last week ordered Argentina to deposit the money before Dec. 15 to pay the "holdout" creditors, a move that could jeopardize payments to bondholders who participated in the 2005 and 2010 debt swaps.
The story had all the trappings of a juicy spy thriller: A mysterious prisoner linked to the Mossad, isolated in a top- security cell. A suicide -- or was it a murder? -- never officially reported. The story had all the trappings of a juicy spy thriller: A mysterious, unregistered prisoner linked to the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, isolated in a top-security cell originally built for the assassin of a prime minister. A suicide -- or was it a murder? -- never officially reported. A court order prohibiting news about case that barred journalists from even acknowledging the order. And, for Hollywood, a code name to rival 007: Prisoner X.
If attorney Carl E. Smith's disbarment has offered a modicum of peace to Missouri's so-called "Fighting 44th" judicial circuit, it's hard to tell. The attorneys and judges at the center of Smith's two-year string of court filings, packed with lurid tales of judicial bribery, cocaine and meth use and even sex at a blues festival, have in the past articulated clear disdain for the Douglas County attorney, disbarred Oct. 4.
Gerrymandering - the redrawing of legislative districts for partisan purposes - has been practiced by the Pennsylvania Legislature for decades. Wednesday, the state Supreme Court said "Enough.
The state has won a temporary court order shutting down two related moving companies in Paterson and Lodi for allegedly engaging in a bait-and-switch scheme, quoting customers a low price and then holding their belongings hostage unless they agreed to pay exorbitant additional cash fees. In one instance, the state alleges, movers demanded sex from a woman customer in exchange for reducing the charges and releasing her property.
CHICAGO, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A controversial use of Illinois' eavesdropping law - prosecuting civilians for audio recording police officers conducting their public duties in a public place - cannot be enforced against the ACLU and its employees for the foreseeable future. This order, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, remains in place until the district judge makes a final ruling in this case. The judge's preliminary injunction was ordered by a federal appellate court ruling in May that held such prosecutions likely violated the First Amendment rights of the public to record the work of public officials, including on-duty police officers. In the last eight years, at least fourteen people have been prosecuted under this law for audio recording...
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