Month: October 2019

The 30-year-old goalkeeper does not want to stay on the bench at Liverpool and is confused after his team-mate was allowed to join Besiktas Simon Mignolet has been left frustrated by Liverpool’s decision to deny him a loan move while allowing Loris Karius to join Besiktas. Mignolet has not played a competitive game for Liverpool…

FC Dallas saw its lead atop the Western Conference shrink after second-placed SKC overcame Minnesota United Sporting Kansas City defeated Minnesota United 2-0 in MLS on Saturday to keep pace with FC Dallas in the Western Conference, as Real Salt Lake thrashed the Colorado Rapids. Sporting KC opened the scoring at Children’s Mercy Park in…

News Media Update WASHINGTON, D.C. Confidentiality/Privilege White House leak investigation trickles forward Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the Justice Department’s investigation into who leaked the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, while syndicated columnist Robert Novak holds firm that he won’t reveal his confidential sources. Jan. 6, 2004 — Justice Department investigators…

Simpson attorneys subpoena film, notes on Fuhrman conflict 04/04/95 WASHINGTON–In an attempt to learn more about Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman’s altercation with a Spokane Spokesman-Review photographer in late January, attorneys for O.J. Simpson in late March subpoenaed the newspaper’s photographs and a taped interview conducted before the airport altercation. According to the newspaper,…

CNN found in contempt for broadcasting Noriega tapes in violation of court order 11/15/94 FLORIDA — A federal district court found CNN guilty of criminal contempt in early November for willfully violating the court’s order prohibiting the airing of recorded conversations between deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and his lawyers. CNN aired the tapes in…

News Media Update MISSISSIPPI Confidentiality/Privilege Government concedes wrongdoing in tape seizure The Department of Justice conceded in court documents that it violated federal law when it seized reporters’ tapes of a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and that the reporters and their employers are each entitled to $1,000 damages and attorneys’ fees….

Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Irish Times was justified in protecting its confidential source for documents revealing a government corruption investigation. Click Here: Germany Football Shop According to The Associated Press, the IrishHigh Court in 2007 ordered the Times to identify its source for the documents, which came from a tribunal conducting a…

A federal shield law that would protect reporters from revealing confidential sources was re-introduced in Congress today. The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 is identical to the shield law that passed the House in the 110th Congress by a vote of 398 to 21. A similar bill was also approved by the Senate…

· Story link The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a judge had the right to seal the names of jurors in a gang-related murder trial because of fear of reprisals from gang members. The high court’s decision was unanimous. The Standard-Times of New Bedford sought the name of jurors who acquitted Manuel Silva of…

Laurence Tribe on Wednesday suggested that Democrats are now in possession of the “smoking Howitzer” with which to impeach President Donald Trump. The Harvard constitutional law professor told CNN’s Anderson Cooper he believed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was “wise to hold off” until last month to begin an impeachment investigation, after she had “what amounts…