Fidel Castro Resigns: After a long illness, Cuba’s president of nearly 50 years stepped down this morning. His brother, Raul, is poised to succeed him. (NYT, WSJ, WaPo)
Magic Words: A Justice Department official has conducted a study that counters the notion that terrorism prosecutions, since 9/11, have been few and largely unsuccessful. In 2007, 888 judicial opinions referenced “Muslims, Islam or variations on those terms, more than in any other year in the history of the United States,” reports The New York Times’ Adam Liptak.
Bleeped: Jane Fonda’s slip of the tongue on NBC's "Today" show last week could have real consequences in CBS’s long-running court battle with the Federal Communication Commission over Janet Jackson's breast-flashing incident in 2004. In today's Legal Intelligencer, via Law.com, Shannon Duffy writes that if any of the three appellate judges saw Fonda’s flub, “it just might have changed their opinion on whether networks should be held responsible for such an unbleeped blooper.”
End Apartheid Lawsuits: The Bush administration is asking the Supreme Court to throw out a lawsuit that accuses U.S. and European corporations of violating international law by assisting South Africa's former apartheid government, according to The Associated Press. The case seeks up to $400 billion in damages from more than 30 corporations — including Ford Motor Co., IBM Corp., Citigroup Inc. and General Electric Co. — for their business dealings with the South African government from 1948 to 1994.
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