Recent Updates
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"Girls Gone Wild" Sentenced to Pay $1.6 Million
Headline News 12/13/2006Mantra Films, Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif. company operating as Girls Gone Wild, was sentenced today to pay $1.6 million in criminal fines for failing to create and maintain age and identity records for films it produced, Assistant Attorney General A...
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Maryland high court considers same-sex marriage ban
Headline News 12/05/2006The Maryland Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Monday in a case challenging a 1973 state law banning same-sex marriage. Plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), argued that marriage is a fundamental right which sho...
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US House to vote on Mexico offshore drilling bill
Headline News 12/02/2006[##_1L|1072780264.jpg|width="200" height="170" alt=""|_##]Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed Friday to vote on a compromise offshore drilling bill on Tuesday under special rules that limit amendments and generally speed up proceedi...
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U.S. Prison and Jail Population Increases in 2005
Headline News 11/30/2006[##_1L|1040026648.jpg|width="104" height="104" alt=""|_##]The population of individuals in US prisons rose by 2.7 percent in 2005, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics. The repo...
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Spitzer cautions against easing corporate reforms
Headline News 11/26/2006Many of the efforts to soften the corporate accountability reforms of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act are being pushed by the same corporations that employed questionable accounting and business practices before the Sarbanes-Oxley reforms, New York state...
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President of Hyundai's Insurance Arrested
Headline News 11/15/2006Ha Jong Sun, former attorney and president of Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. became the second suspect arrested in a week as a result of a probe into the 2003 sale of Korea Exchange Bank to Lone Star Funds. Lee Kang Won, former Korea Exchang...
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Shipping Company Sentenced for Vessel Pollution
Headline News 11/14/2006WASHINGTON – USDOJ) The Sun Ace Shipping Company, based in Seoul, South Korea, was sentenced today to pay a $400,000 penalty, a $100,000 community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Program, Delaware Estuary Grants Program, which wil...