BP Expected To Plead Guilty, Pay Record Fine In Gulf Oil Spill Criminal Case
Update at 11:30 a.m. ET: Oil giant BP has agreed to plead guilty to criminal misconduct related to the 2010 Gulf Oil spill and will pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties, the company just...
View ArticleIs A Recess Appointment Valid If The Senate Says It's Not Really Gone?
In a tug of war between President Obama and Congress, a federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of Obama's controversial recess appointments.The...
View ArticleReport On CIA Interrogation Tactics Revives Torture Debate
In a closed-door meeting Thursday, lawmakers will consider whether to approve a secret report that chronicles CIA detention and interrogation practices — including methods that critics have compared to...
View ArticleWill A $1.9 Billion Settlement Be Enough To Change Banks' Behavior?
If a kid does something bad and you want to discipline him — give him a timeout, say, or take away a toy — there are some basic principles that seem to work.
View ArticleObama's Cabinet 2.0 Coming Into Focus
In the category of unintended consequences, Susan Rice's announcement about her future could — under one scenario — mean a Republican in President Obama's inner circle, decorated Vietnam veterans...
View ArticleJustice Wants Banks To Be Quasi Cops
Every year, banks handle tens of millions of transactions. Some of them involve drug money, or deals with companies doing secret business with countries like Iran and Syria, in defiance of trade...
View ArticleTransocean To Pay $1.4 Billion In Gulf Oil Spill Settlement
Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig where 11 men died in April 2010, has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in criminal and civil penalties to resolve Justice Department allegations over its...
View ArticleCollege Students With Food Allergies Make Legal Gains
Many a college student lives off of microwavable meals – but some do it not by choice but because they're worried school food might make them sick.They may have celiac disease, a digestive ailment...
View ArticleBaseball Will Test For Human Growth Hormone During Season
Major League Baseball will expand its effort to fight performance enhancing drugs to include random blood tests for human growth hormone and other substances during the regular season, under the terms...
View ArticleAmerican Sentenced To 35 Years For Role In Mumbai Attack
David Coleman Headley, whose scouting missions were central to the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, was sentenced to 35 years in prison today.According to the AP, one American woman injured during the...
View ArticleCourt Ruling Upsets Conventional Wisdom On Recess Appointments
In a bombshell decision on the limits of executive power, a federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., has invalidated President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations...
View ArticleJudge Approves BP's Manslaughter Plea In 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
A federal judge has approved a guilty plea by BP to manslaughter charges in connection with the 2010 Gulf oil spill.The approved deal includes a record $4 billion in criminal penalties.Eleven workers...
View ArticleLanny Breuer, Justice Dept.'s Criminal Division Chief, Says He Will Step Down
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the longest serving chief of the Justice Department's criminal division since the 1960s, says he will leave government service in March.Breuer is announcing his...
View ArticleU.S. Moves To Halt AB InBev's Purchase Of Grupo Modelo
A $20.1 billion merger of beer conglomerates is now delayed, after the U.S. Justice Department sued to stop Anheuser-Busch InBev's acquisition of Mexico's dominant brewer, Grupo Modelo, Thursday. The...
View ArticleReports: U.S. Plans To Sue S&P Over Mortgage Bonds Ratings
The United States and some states are planning to sue Standard & Poor's Ratings Services over what they say were the faulty ratings of mortgage bonds leading up to the 2008 financial collapse.The...
View ArticleBroader Justification Emerges Of When U.S. Can Kill Americans Who Join Al-Qaida
American citizens who become leaders in al-Qaida or other terrorist organizations overseas and pose "an imminent threat" to Americans may be killed with drone strikes even when there's no evidence that...
View ArticleU.S. Says It Has No Plans To Charge Lance Armstrong
The Department of Justice said today that it was sticking by its decision not to pursue any charges against cyclist Lance Armstrong."We made a decision on that case a little over a year ago. Obviously,...
View Article5 Questions About Justice Department Memo On Targeted Killings
A confidential Justice Department memo obtained by NBC News outlines legal theories the Obama administration has used to justify killing American citizens abroad.
View ArticleMavericks, Hot Documents, And Beer
The boards of American Airlines and US Airways just approved a merger of the two airlines. But the deal still has to win the approval of antitrust regulators at the Justice Department — regulators who...
View ArticleBeer Map: Two Giant Brewers, 210 Brands
In the past decade, a few big beer companies went on a buying spree, spending some $195 billion to buy up brewers around the world, according to Bloomberg.Beer drinkers can be excused for not noticing.
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