Category Archives: US Legal News

Appeals court allows prayer at Texas high school’s graduation

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prayer at Texas graduation schoolIn a cry for religious freedom and sentiments, Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District against the ban imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, on prayer at their graduation ceremony. The original law suit by an agnostic family whose son attends Medina Valley High School in Castroville. They were of the opinion that their son would suffer “irreparable harm” if anyone prayed at his graduation ceremony.

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Illinois civil unions law goes into effect – Legal News

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Illinois civl lawThe same sex couples in Illinois are given the right to enter into civil unions and enjoy all the protections and privileges same as that of the married couples, from Wednesday. Illinois joined five other states in legalizing civil union in January. The Gov. Pat Quinn signed the law in front of the crowd of cheering residents during a ceremony that was conducted in the Chicago auditorium and declared that purpose behind the same is to show the whole world that the people of Illinois believe in equality before law.

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US law firm leaders confident across the board

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In Law firms in transition survey 2011 it has find out that confidence is High among US law firm leaders in all size of firms. Two Third of the most firms increased gross revenue in 2010 and nearly 75 percent grew revenues per lawyer and profits per equity partner. Overhead reduction and equity partner shrinkage remain important contributors to profitability.

Google Accounts of US officials hacked by Chinese Hackers

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Google Accounts hackedHackers from china have compromised many google accounts of top US officials and other political leaders from Asian countries. Google made a statement regarding the issue saying that their own security systems have not been breached but individual accounts have been hacked through fraud. Google also notified the respective members and their governments regarding the breach. The matter becomes sensitive as these officials handle top secret information on classified subjects. The passwords were acquired through a internet practice called ‘spear phising’ which misguides an account user to provide his account information to the hacker who had created a page similar to that of google. Analyst say it is very hard to find if it was authorized by governments or done by individual hackers. The difference between the both would be that if it was carried out by a government it will not be considered as a cyber crime but cyber espionage. This comes in the wake of a statement issued by the White House which said an act of cyber terrorism will be met with real time military consequences.

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Headley says he made a fool of Rana by involving him in the conspiracy

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David Coleman Headley David Coleman Headley told the defense lawyer for his co-accused Rana that he made a fool of his childhood friend Rana by covering his terrorist links and making him assist in the conspiracy which ended up in the 26/11 attack on Mumbai which left 160 people dead. Headley had pleaded guilty while Rana’s defense still maintains the status that he is not guilty of the charges of support for terrorism. If convicted Rana will be facing a life sentence. The trial is been closely watched from India for getting any evidence for the alleged involvement of Pakistani Government’s involvement in the attack. Headley had named a former military officer and a major from the Pakistani Army to be involved in the conspiracy and said that their superiors were unaware of the plot. Headley also revealed that the Al-Qaeda had planned to kill the CEO of the American defense contractor from Lock-Heed Martin to stop the drone attacks on militant leaders. Headley revealed this during the trial. Headley testimony comes after a deal not to face death penalty and extradition to India or Denmark where he is needed for the same charges he is facing in the US.

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Lawyers for ex-Soviet officer say political pressure by US led to unfair extradition

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Layer USLawyers for an ex-Soviet officer extradited to the United States to face conspiracy charges in federal court say the case should be thrown out. They argued that it’s because of US used high political pressure to get Thailand to release him. The paper which was filed on Tuesday purely says that it was brought because of purely political reasons against Viktor Bout. The lawyers strongly said that the U.S. Army contractors had used aircraft owned by companies associated with Bout to supply U.S. troops in Iraq. The schedule of trial of Viktor Bout is to be held in this October. The charge on him was he conspired to sell weapons to a terrorist organization. He was extradited from Thailand last year. He was arrested in March 2008 in a Bangkok hotel. He has pleaded not guilty. The Government of Russian complained that his extradition was unlawful and political.

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