May 31
2006
3:17 PM
May 26
2006
12:23 PM
May 26
2006
11:19 AM
May 25
2006
8:29 AM

ASIL Int’l Law in Brief

The May 26, 2006 edition of ASIL’s International Law in Brief (ILIB) arrived via email this morning. The ILIB is a monthly compilation of "Developments in international law," prepared by the Editorial Staff of International Legal Materials (ILM).  ASIL’s International Law in Brief archive is available online.  ILIB is a free electronic resource.

May 24
2006
8:53 AM
May 23
2006
3:50 PM

Public Defenders, Jails, & Katrina

The announcement [reported in JURIST] that New Orleans criminal trials should resume next week might qualify as good news, except that

"According to a report [LA Times report] from the US Justice Department, the Orleans County Public Defender’s Office [official backgrounder] needs 70 lawyers and more than $8 million in addition to the $2.8 million it is scheduled to receive from the federal government on May 31. Thirty-one of the office’s 39 public defenders have been laid off since Hurricane Katrina…."

May 18
2006
1:49 PM

“Enormous” Accounting Errors

ProQuest (electronic archived information provider) is [apparently] in serious financial trouble:  "A little more than a week ago, ProQuest released the preliminary results of an investigation into accounting problems the company believes will reduce its earnings by between $80 million and $100 million in 2004 and 2005…"  That’s a bunch when you consider the company reported profits of $52.7 million last year.  See, Ann Arbor News for more.

May 18
2006
11:41 AM
May 18
2006
9:29 AM

Diebold Voting Machine Security Issues continued

beSpacific links to a Diebold voting machine security report.  The post links to an interesting California Voter Foundation press release as well — California first in nation to implement electronic voting reform (May 4, 2006):

"All 58 California counties are on track to deploy new or upgraded voting equipment that guarantees every ballot cast will be backed up on paper that voters can verify before leaving the polls. Fourteen counties acquired over 40,000 electronic voting machines in recent years, all of which are being replaced or retrofitted with printers in time for the June election, making California the first state in the nation to reform its electronic voting systems after widespread deployment of paperless e-voting machines."

So much for the paperless society.

May 17
2006
8:38 AM