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California long has been the pacesetter in regulating car emissions, setting tougher limits than those imposed by the federal government. To avoid having cars built to meet 50 different sets of state rules, federal law allows other states to choose between the federal and the California rules. Vermont and nine other states follow California. But […]

The turmoil at the Justice Department deepened yesterday, with the sudden resignation of a top aide to Alberto Gonzales – making it more likely than ever that the embattled Attorney General will himself be forced out of his job by the end of this month. Monica Goodling, the Justice Department’s liaison to the White House,

A Greek prosecutor on Saturday pressed negligence charges against the captain and five officers of a cruise ship that sank off an Aegean Sea island, state NET TV reported. The six officers were charged with causing a shipwreck through negligence, breaching international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment, NET said. All were released pending

European lawyers are examining whether alleged war crimes committed by Ethiopian and Somali troops in Mogadishu last week could expose the EU to accusations of complicity because of its formidable financial assistance to the two countries. A massive Ethiopian-led offensive to pacify an insurgency in the Somali capital left nearly 400 people dead between March

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to release unredacted copies of all documents regarding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. In a letter to Gonzales today, the senators said they want to determine whether the Justice Department had replacements in mind when it fired seven of the prosecutors. There already is “substantial

Some of the payments at the center of Conrad Black’s criminal fraud trial were reported to U.S. government regulators in a timely fashion and not hidden as prosecutors have suggested, jurors were told on Thursday. Under cross examination, Fred Creasey, a former comptroller at Black’s Canadian holding company Hollinger Inc., was shown a document bearing

Fate brought Harold Hongju Koh to the Yale Law School deanship. He was six years old at the time. The year was 1961, and Eugene V. Rostow — outspoken, energetic and controversial — was dean. During his tenure, Rostow doubled the Yale Law School faculty, transformed the curriculum and rocketed the school to first in

A spokesman for Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric denied reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani had rejected a new draft law that would allow many former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party to regain state jobs. “What some news agencies said quoting who they described as an aide to Sayyed Sistani about his position on the

Private Chinese companies drawn to U.S. initial public offerings by the cachet and strong returns from a U.S. stock offering are being courted by a cadre of American corporate law firms jockeying for a piece of the burgeoning China market. A spate of U.S. IPOs by Chinese companies since last year has engaged lawyers as

In a victory for President Bush, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by suspected terrorists challenging their imprisonment at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At issue are the rights of the prisoners to contest their imprisonment and the rules set up to try them as war criminals. About 400 detainees