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- Dock Clerks in California and Employers Strike a Deal
- The dock clerks of the United States' biggest port complex came to a tentative agreement with their employers regarding a new employment contract on Thursday.
- Chicago pays $2 million compensation for cop-shooting victims
- The Chicago City Government recompenses $2 million to settle the remaining claims of victims shot by police on the West Side in the 1998 Chicago Bulls’ championship win.
- Web-Dating Firm’s Shareholders Requests Court to Bar Hookup
- Vertrue’s shareholders asked the Judge of a Delaware court to bar its top executives from getting hooked up to private equity partners intending to buyout Vertrue.
- Former Ernst and young partners charged with tax fraud conspiracy
- Four present and ex of Ernst and Young, the massive accounting firm in New York City, were charged with crimes involving tax fraud conspiracy and tax shelters.
- Program on TBI and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Governor Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois and Director Tammy Duckworth of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs (IDVA) announced a pioneering program that would benefit National Guard members
- Two CN Freight Trains collide in CN Yazoo Subdivision Anding Mississippi
- Two CN freight trains collided head on in the CN Yazoo Subdivision, Anding Mississippi. This is the site where the train’s central operations are located.
- Egypt: Mass Arrests, Torture Follow Taba Bombing
- The Egyptian authorities have identified only nine suspects as responsible for the Taba attack, but the ministry of interior continues to hold an estimated 2,400 detainees. The government has not released information on the whereabouts of these detainees either to their families or lawyers representing them, and has not indicated if any have been charged with crimes.
- Latest Data Continue to Suggest Slight Acceleration in Wage Gains
- The preliminary WTI reading of 99.14 for the first quarter of 2005 is up from the final reading of 98.93 for the fourth quarter of 2004 (second quarter 1976 = 100). The WTI has risen for three consecutive quarters, the first time that has happened since 1998, when the index was finishing a string of nine consecutive quarterly increases.
- ACLU and Human Rights First Sue Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America’s reputation.
- SEC Charges Google and Its General Counsel David C. Drummond With Failure To Register Over $80 Million in Employee Stock Options Prior To IPO
- SEC Charges Google and Its General Counsel David C. Drummond With Failure To Register Over $80 Million in Employee Stock Options Prior To IPO. Company and Drummond Agree to Cease and Desist From Violating Registration and Related Financial Disclosure Requirements.
- LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® Introduces Law Firm Diversity Profiles on martindale.com
- LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell is active in promoting law firm diversity initiatives, including a close association with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), the only privately funded national organization exclusively dedicated to diversity management issues in the legal profession. The company worked side-by-side with the MCCA to create the new Diversity Profiles product as a vehicle for law firms to spotlight their commitment to workforce diversity with in-depth descriptions of tactics and goals to recruit, retain and promote minorities.
