The Other Side of the Story: Corporate Counsel offers a preview of the planned testimony of former Bank of America general counsel Tim Mayopoulos, who was fired in December. Mayopoulos, summoned to appear by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, plans to cover a range of actions by the bank last fall during its merger with Merrill Lynch.
A Question of Timing: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear the case of an Alabama man whose lawyers argue that the murder that sent the man to death row was not a capital crime when he committed it, The New York Times reports. Billy Joe Magwood was sentenced to death for the 1979 fatal shooting of a law enforcement officer. The Court must decide whether Magwood took too long to raise the argument that he could not have lawfully been sentenced to death. Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined without comment to hear the high-profile trademark case against the Washington Redskins football team. Click here for The BLT report.
U.S. Attorney Nominee Criticized: Stephanie Rose, President Obama's candidate for U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, is taking heat for her lead role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, according to a report in The New York Times. Immigration lawyers say the felony identity-theft charges against the immigrants were harsh.
Google 'Antitrust Concern': Google Inc. has rewritten its controversial books settlement in changes that were aimed to address concerns that the company had grabbed unfair control of books whose rights holders cannot be found, The Recorder reports. The revised settlement creates an "independent fiduciary" that would oversee the unclaimed works.
The Case Against KSM: The Wall Street Journal today looks at statements submitted by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to a military commission last year. Those statements, which helped to acquit another alleged Sept. 11 conspirator, could boost the prosecution's case against Mohammed, who is one of five terror suspects expected to be charged in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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