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I told you so.” With those words on the courthouse steps in the Bahamas, Larry Birkhead officially became the father of Anna Nicole Smith baby Dannielynn. Other issues of custody and guardianship were not discussed by the participants under a court gag order, although co-contestent father Larry Birkhead said he was very disappointed but accepted […]

US authorities are investigating gambling in the virtual reality world of Second Life. The FBI has reportedly examined casinos that operate in the game following a month-long crackdown on internet gambling. “We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and we

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