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Ban urges African countries to entrench civil, political and economic rights – UN News Centre

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged African countries to entrench civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights to boost stability and … elections and improve public security, rule of law and transitional justice,” said Mr. Ban.

Police switch sides as crime booms – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The vulnerability of the poor to organized crime is particularly apparent in neighboring Guatemala, where President Otto Perez Molina, a former army intelligence chief, came to office earlier this month on a law and order platform. Organized crime groups …

People in business – Memphis Commercial Appeal

Leslie Gattas Coleman, a partner in the law firm Pounders Coleman, has been named a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, an organization of leading practitioners in the field of family law. Fellows are preeminent family law …

Congress tries to police itself on insider trading – msnbc.com

Insider trading laws apply to all Americans, but the CBS TV news magazine “60 Minutes” in November said members of Congress get a pass, citing investment transactions by party leaders and a committee chairman in businesses about to be affected … Continue reading

Delta considering bid for US Airways – Gulf News

The filing touched off widespread reviews by US airlines of all their competitors for possible mergers and acquisitions as well as purchases … Millstein & Co, Barclays and the law firm of Latham & Watkins have been hired to help … Continue reading

Cladek’s victims now facing lawsuits – St. Augustine Record

“The people taken advantage of are getting doubly screwed.” Those laws allow bankruptcy attorneys to go after people who may have lost their principal in a scheme but made back more than that principal via any payments over the years … Continue reading

India may exclude clause on lawsuits from trade pacts – Livemint.com

Besides the European Union, it is negotiating similar pacts with Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Indonesia. Customary international law requires foreign investors to sue governments in domestic courts for any claims, or at the World Trade Organization …

Real estate investigation grows – Pocono Record

A probe of alleged real estate fraud in the Poconos is widening and now includes … purchase price was performed by Dominick Stranieri. Stranieri is the son-in-law of Harry and Jean Lee and is a defendant in a lawsuit alleging … Continue reading

Bill Kinney: Crime Stoppers using tips, rewards to take bite of out crime – Marietta Daily Journal

That’s where Crime Stoppers comes in. “We are a link between the community and law enforcement, and we offer tools to help get information from the public to law enforcement.” The most important of those tools is money. Crime Stoppers … Continue reading

Teens migrating to Twitter _ sometimes for privacy – Worldnews.com

On July 27, 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division filed a Competitive Impact Statement … to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request. We do not want you to receive unwanted e-mail from …