Mortage Ruling Could Shock US. Banking INdustry

June 30, 2008 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawsuit filed by a Wisconsin couple against their mortgage lender could have major implications for banks should a U.S. appeals court agree that borrowers can cancel their loans en masse when their lenders violate a federal lending disclosure law. A foreclosed home is seen in Stockton, California in this May 13, 2008 file photo. The case began like hundreds of others filed since the U.. » read more

Scalia Cites False Information in Habeas Corpus Dissent

Wednesday 25 June 2008 To bolster his argument that the Guantanamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo have returned to the battlefield." It turns out that statement is false. Marjorie Cohn says, "Scalia bolstered his hysterical claim that the Boumediene decision 'will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed' with stale information that was proven to be false a year ago." (Photo: AP)     According to a new report by Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research, "The statistic was endorsed by a Senate Minority Report issued June 26, 2007, which cites a media outlet, CNN.. » read more

Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department

Wednesday 25 June 2008  Washington - Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used "political or ideological" factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.     The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department's inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year's scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.     "Many qualified candidates" were rejected for the department's honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, "constituted misconduct and also violated the department's policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.. » read more

In a First, Court Overturns Guantanamo Hearing

Monday 23 June 2008 Washington - A federal appeals court for the first time has rejected the military's designation of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant.     A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned as "invalid" a military tribunal's conclusion that prisoner Huzaifa Parhat is an enemy combatant.     The court directed the Pentagon either to release or transfer Parhat or to hold a new tribunal hearing "consistent with the court's opinion.. » read more

The Crucifixion of Chief Justice John Glover Roberts

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Government Is Sued Over Seizure of Liberty Dollars

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Law School to Organize Bush War Crimes Trial

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:20 EDT A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. "This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth." "We must try to hold Bush administration leaders accountable in courts of justice," Velvel said. "And we must insist on appropriate punishments, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war-criminals in the 1940s.. » read more

Why You Should Never Talk To Cops (video)

Rule #1 when dealing with police Question: "The police are here. They want to talk to me. What should I do?" Answer: "Make no statement to the police under any circumstances." - Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson Got it? Part One:  The Attorney Part Two:  The Cop TO VIEW THESE VIDEOS CLICK ON: www.brasschecktv.. » read more

Jury Duty Scam

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.   The caller claims to be a jury coordinator.. » read more

Logjam of War Contractor Fraud Suits

Thursday 12 June 2008 A backlog of whistleblower lawsuits against military contractors has been swelling and festering since the early days of the so-called war on terror.     According to critics, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has blocked the progress of these lawsuits to spare the Bush administration a major political black eye should the truth about ongoing war profiteering be revealed, a charge the DOJ denies. Last year, swearing in before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill, Blackwater USA Chief Executive Erik Prince testified about security contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Photo: Reuters / Larry Downing)     Under the False Claims Act, a civil war era law, when an employee of a company thinks they have evidence that their company is defrauding the US government, the individual can file a lawsuit on behalf of the government against the contractor by filing a special lawsuit called a qui tam - a Latin abbreviation for "he who sues in this matter for the king as for himself."     The exact number of qui tam cases stuck in legal limbo is unknown because the cases are kept under strict seal.. » read more

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