Hillary Clinton must submit to a deposition about her use of a private email server, a federal judge rules.
Marilyn Monroe once said that Hollywood was a place "where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." Many film stars may feel similarly short-changed as studios are tightening their belts and making fewer films http://econ.trib.al/zUGs3jo
Morsi's Visitors Leave a Mystery on Where He Is By KAREEM FAHIM and MAYY EL SHEIKH
The European Union's top foreign policy official was the most recent
person to visit the deposed Egyptian president, who is being held in a
secret location.
WE NEED EXPERIENCED TEACHERS
Stanford education professor Pam Grossman writes in the Huffington Post: If we want to build an education system built to last, we need to prepare teachers for the long haul and support them in staying in the classroom. By treating teaching as a revolving door occupation, we shortchange both our students and our society.
Swiss Banks Face Sanctions
Swiss regulator Finma may discipline four banks for having what it called lax controls on accepting money from foreign public officials associated with deposed Middle Eastern and North African leaders.
A Mizuho group executive said, "The damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake had wide social ramifications."
This is the twelfth in a series of discussions of quality guru W. Edwards Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality and their ramifications on data quality. Here I describe Deming's quality point 8, "Drive Out Fear," a requirement for enabling sustainable data quality improvement.
Darnton said the ramifications of the settlement were too unclear for Harvard to commit to participating in the Google project.
US lawmakers squabble over $700bn rescue package
US lawmakers have reportedly agreed to include protections for homeowners in a massive rescue package to fix the current financial crisis. The Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Democrat Barney Frank, said negotiators agreed that the number of homeowners forced into foreclosure should be minimised. However, Democrats and Republicans have split over other measures, including whether the government should gain equity in companies seeking a bailout. The Bush administration needs the support of the Democrat controlled Congress to pass its package. The plan foresees using 700 billion dollars of taxpayers' money to buy up banks' bad debts.
Congressional Leaders Stunned by Warnings
Fed and Treasury officials laid out the potentially devastating ramifications of the market crisis.
Top Lawyer Is Selected
As U.S. Mulls Google Suit
By JOHN R. WILKE
Washington -- The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation's best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.'s growing power in advertising.
Mr. Litvack's hiring is the strongest signal yet that the U.S. is preparing to take court action against Google and its search-advertising deal with Yahoo Inc. The two companies combined would account for more than 80% of U.S. online-search ads.
Google shares tumbled 5.5%, or $24.30, to $419.95 in 4 p.m. trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, while Yahoo shares were up 18 cents to $18.26.
For weeks, U.S. lawyers have been deposing witnesses and issuing subpoenas for documents to support a challenge to the deal, lawyers close to the review said. Such efforts don't always mean a case will be brought, however.
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Deposed Thai Leader Flees to Britain
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has fled to the United Kingdom, the former leader said, after he and his wife skipped a hearing in a Thai court.
Nvidia plans to announce a way to ease the impact of a dispute with Intel that could have hurt some high-end personal computer makers. The two chip makers have been squabbling over terms of a licensing agreement.
The NYT's anonymous sources tell the paper that bureaucratic squabbling in Washington has severely hampered "Operation Cannonball," the codename for efforts to hunt al Qaida in Pakistan, where the terrorist organization has reestablished its base after being smashed in Afghanistan.
紐約時報關於著名律師疑行賄法官的分析
Court Intrigue for the King of Torts
Cheryl Gerber for The New York Times
Richard Scruggs, known for bringing big companies to heel, now has to fight federal bribery charges. He is shown above in a house in Pascagoula, Miss., where he has represented victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Rollin Riggs for The New York Times
Charles M. Merkel Jr., whose fee dispute with Richard Scruggs is at the heart of the bribery case.
Rollin Riggs for The New York Times
The Scruggs law offices in Oxford, Miss. The state’s bar is known for its interconnecting relationships and rivalries.
EVER since Richard Scruggs was indicted on federal conspiracy and bribery charges about two weeks ago, legal eagles have asked whether a renowned lawyer who earned a reputation as the “King of Torts” would really risk his reputation, his freedom, his wealth and, of course, his career, by offering $50,000 to sway a judge in a relatively small squabble over fees.
One clue may be found in this town, nestled amid cotton fields and country crossroads made famous in the music of the legendary blues singer Robert Johnson A Clarksdale lawyer, Charles M. Merkel Jr., spent more than a decade battling Mr. Scruggs in two fee disputes and says he still bears scars from the fight.
WITH its Southern-fried dialogue, country lawyers and charges of small-town malfeasance, the indictment of Dickie Scruggs has all the trappings of a pulp fiction novel. Yet the case has ramifications far beyond Mississippi. It comes at a crucial time in the long-running clash between trial lawyers and corporate America over class-action lawsuits. Corporations have long sought to limit such cases and, at a minimum, put a cap on the settlements, which can be billions of dollars.
Working the political and legal machinery in Mississippi isn’t new to Mr. Scruggs. In his deposition with Mr. Merkel in 2004, he discussed some $10 million in payments he made to P. L. Blake, a onetime college football star in Mississippi. After running into financial troubles, Mr. Blake became a political consultant for Mr. Scruggs, helping his boss navigate the back rooms of state politics and tobacco litigation.
In the deposition, where he was represented by Mr. Balducci, Mr. Scruggs praised Mr. Blake for keeping “his ear to the ground politically in this state and in the South generally, and he has been extremely helpful in keeping me apprised of that type activity.” Mr. Blake could not be reached for comment.
tort
━━ n. 【法】不法行為 ((民事裁判の対象になる犯罪)).
n. Law.Damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully, negligently, or in circumstances involving strict liability, but not involving breach of contract, for which a civil suit can be brought.
[Middle English, injury, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tortum, from Latin, neuter past participle of torquēre, to twist.]
squabble
noun [C]an argument over an unimportant matter:
Polly and Susie were having a squabble about who was going to hold the dog's lead.
depose
verb [T]
to remove someone important from a powerful position:
Margaret Thatcher was deposed as leader of the British Conservative Party in 1991.
King Charles I was deposed from the English throne in 1646.
deposition noun [U] FORMAL
Crowds celebrated the dictator's deposition.
See also deposition.
Additionally, product liability cases are often categorized as the specific form of tort law, known as "strict products liability" law.
deposition
noun [C] LEGAL
a formal written statement made or used in a court of law:
Before the court case, we had to file/give a deposition.
Our lawyer took a deposition from us.
a sworn deposition
See also deposition at depose.
de・pose
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━━ vt. 免職する, （王を）廃する; 【法】証言する.
━━ vi. 【法】（宣誓）証言する ((to; to having done)).
de・pos・al ━━ n.ramification Show phonetics
noun [C usually plural]ramifications
the possible results of an action:
Have you considered all the ramifications of your suggestion?
ram・i・fi・ca・tion 
━━ n. 分枝, 分岐; （普通pl.） 支脈, 分派; （普通pl.） （事態の）各方面への波及.
⇒ramifyramification
[名][U][C]((形式))
1 ((通例〜s))細分化, 分岐.
2 分枝, 分派, 分脈.
3 《植物》分枝；分枝方式.
4 関連問題；（派生して起こる, 最初ははっきりわからない）結果, 効果, 成り行き, （悪）影響.shortchange
(shôrt'chānj')
tr.v., -changed, -chang·ing, -chang·es.
- To give (someone) less change than is due in a transaction.
- Informal. To treat unfairly or deceitfully; cheat: "a deceitful cook who skimps on ingredients and shortchanges guests" (Jacques Pepin).
short-change
Definition of short-change in English:
VERB
NOUN
(short change)
Insufficient money given as change.
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