Kagan nominated to SCOTUS
U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, a former Harvard Law School dean, was nominated by President Obama to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court. BU Law Professor Jack Beermann, an authority on the...
View ArticleIsraeli flotilla raid condemned
After the UN Security Council condemned Israel’s open-seas raid on a flotilla headed with humanitarian aid to Gaza, Israel says the 600-plus activists it arrested are being freed and expelled from the...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan hit with record U.K. fine
British regulators fined investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase a record $48 million for failing to keep client money separate from the firm’s money — from 2002 when Morgan merged with Chase until mid-2009...
View ArticleDell settling Intel claims
Dell is in settlement talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve allegations that its founder/CEO Michael Dell engaged in financial irregularities related to Dell’s dealings with...
View ArticleBP faces Congress
It’s all BP all the time in Washington this week. After President Obama addresses the nation Wednesday on the BP oil spill situation, company executives on Thursday face a Congressional hearing on the...
View ArticleFDA and outsourced drug making
The Food and Drug Administration reportedly will propose tougher regulations for pharmaceutical companies that outsource manufacturing of drugs, making them more responsible for the safety and purity...
View ArticleThe FDIC's deposit-insurance limit
Congressional negotiators working out difference between the House and Senate financial reform bills are hammering out compromises right and left. One would permanently (and retroactively to January...
View ArticleNebraska town targets illegals
With about 57 percent of residents voting for it, the town of Fremont, Neb., has passed an ordinance aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration by banning hiring or renting property to illegals....
View ArticleSCOTUS on the "honest services" law
The Supreme Court restricted a favorite tool for pursuing corrupt politicians and self-dealing corporate chiefs, ruling that the law that makes it a crime to deprive the public or one’s employer of the...
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