The research reported in this paper was motivated by the petitions submitted to the Election Petition Tribunals in Nigeria alleging multiple thumbprints of ballot papers in the elections held in 2007. Some of the Election Petition Tribunals exercised their discretion by granting the Petitioners the leave sought to inspect, scan and carry out forensics analysis of multiple thumbprints on ballot papers. The objective of the paper is to provide a legal framework for the truth, validity and admissibility in the court of law the process of scanning and forensic analysis of thumb prints on ballot papers in a developing country such as Nigeria. The method proposed to accomplish this objective has a number of phases. First, the features of thumbprint, certified procedure for thumb printing and ...
In Legal Brief, Government Urges Appeals Court to Dissolve Injunction over $18 Billion Chevron Judgment NEW YORK, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ecuador's government has taken the extraordinary step of asking a U.S. appeals court to rein in New York judge Lewis A. Kaplan for his "belittlement" of their country's court system and for mocking the Ecuadorian indigenous and farmer communities who recently won an $18 billion judgment against Chevron, according to legal papers filed recently in New York.
Legal Papers Ask for Removal of Lewis A. Kaplan Due to Inappropriate Comments, Apparent Bias Against Historic Lawsuit NEW YORK, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A U.S. federal judge in New York is questioning whether the Ecuadorian indigenous plaintiffs who for almost two decades have battled Chevron in one of the world's largest environmental litigations even exist, according to a legal brief asking an appellate panel to order the judge off a case involving the Ecuadorians because of his apparent bias against their lawsuit.
Ridgefield Police Officer Carl Mealing was fired not because he was black, but because he continually harassed women, according to legal documents filed on behalf of Ridgefield City Manager George Fox. Fox, who has been suspended over the firing, disclosed the harassment claim along with other details about Mealing in a document filed earlier this month by Fox's attorney, Don Greig of Vancouver, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma.
Mayor Byron W. Brown is the focus of a $1 million-plus lawsuit filed by a Cleveland developer who says Brown scuttled a housing over the developer's refusal to give one of the mayor's supporters a job. In legal papers filed Monday in federal court, NRP Corp. accused the mayor and a Council member with corruption and racketeering in connection with an alleged pay-to-play conspiracy that required the developer to hire the Rev. Richard A. Stenhouse or a development group associated with Stenhouse.
A bill sponsored by Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, would remove legal notices from newspapers and put them on a state-run Web site instead. While you might expect a newspaper to oppose this idea because of the potential revenue loss, the truth is this bill is a loser for everyone in the state. The bill is not unique. It is riding a slowly growing trend nationwide based on the false premise that newspaper readership is disappearing and the printed word is becoming irrelevant. It is true that many newspapers are in financial trouble, but that is a consequence of a decline in advertising due to the recession and the growth of the Internet. It is not, especially in Utah, a consequence of a loss of readership.
A capital defendant accused in a 2006 mass murder and several organizations representing defense attorneys from around the nation will argue before the Arizona Supreme Court on March 22 to keep crime victims out of private hearings with the trial judge to discuss mitigation efforts of the defense. William Miller, 33, of Scottsdale, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers say in legal papers that allowing survivors of Miller's five alleged victims, or any victims, into such hearings will tip off the defense strategy and force a choice between disclosing privileged information and obtaining money and experts to mount an adequate defense.
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