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InfoWorld (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Microsoft may begin collecting royalties again for licensing some protocols because clear technical documentation is now available, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday. The change comes after the DOJ issued its latest joint status report regarding its 2002 antitrust settlement with Microsoft.
PC World (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Microsoft may begin collecting royalties again for licensing some protocols because clear technical documentation is now available.
Computer World (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Microsoft may begin collecting royalties again for licensing some protocols because clear technical documentation is now available, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
This Ain't Hell (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
The Washington Times reports that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is sick of pussy-footing around with DoJ lawyers and has decided to subpoena them to answer questions about the New Black Panther Party case; David P. Blackwood, the commission’s general counsel, said Tuesday in a letter to the Justice Department that efforts since June to [...]
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Obama DOJ no longer represents former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo in Yoo's suit against Jose Padilla. But the Obama administration is still working on Yoo's behalf in the case. '> http://bit.ly/4KZqm7
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | yesterday
My colleague Daphne Eviatar seems to have found the reason why the DOJ continues to delay the release of the Office of Professional Responsibility report on John Yoo and Jay Bybee -- because it might interfere with the legal position they continue to take in a lawsuit against former Bush DOJ official John Yoo. Yoo is being sued by Jose Padilla, an American citizen arrested as a terrorist and subjected...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... to which the Report refers was agreed upon in May 2006, and cleverly avoided painting the DOJ as banning Microsoft from collecting royalties. Instead, it let the company charge licensees on paper royalties for the use of protocols (the documentation for which is now freely posted online ), but then gave those licensees a 100% credit to be applied toward those fees. At the time, that credit was...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Texas ranks among national leaders among states at reducing its incarceration rate and probation rolls, according to the latest federal data summarizing state and federal corrections data. Here are two new reports (forwarded by a helpful reader) from the Bureau of Justice Statistics at USDOJ comparing state prison, probation and parole populations: Prisoners in 2008 Probation and Parole in the United...
www.radioleft.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bush DOJ looks at itself --Another instructive White House email, from the previous administration, Oct. 5, 2004; this one has an illuminating back-and-forth, laudably polite, about how to put the best foot forward re that tricky topic of shifting resources from crime to terrorism, or vice versa. (See attachments below) In response to a list of suggested Department of Justice talking points, White...
Hot Air (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Rusty at My Pet Jawa has been expecting this, but for many it may come as a shock. The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against an American on charges of conspiracy and terrorism related to the Mumbai massacre a year ago. David Headley spent time at terrorist training ...
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | yesterday
[Guest post by DRJ] In January 2008, Jose Padilla sued John Yoo over Yoo’s advice to President George W. Bush regarding Padilla’s detention, the conditions of his confinement and the methods of his interrogation. Last week, the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice responded that these are all “matters of war and national security” that are [...]
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | yesterday
From an ecstatic Associated Press: Cubans Get Reduced Sentences for Spying in US December 8, 2009 MIAMI (AP) — Two former Cuban intelligence officers convicted of spying in the U.S. were handed reduced prison sentences Tuesday after an appeals court ruled their original terms were too severe. U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard accepted an agreement reducing Ramon Labanino’s [...]
Big Government (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Nadler. If you recall he’s been fighting the ban and advising ACORN’s attorney on the issue. While DOJ has not gone so far as to agree with ACORN, it has eviscerated the intent and substance of the ban on funding. It’s time for Congress to permanently defund this corrupt organization. Congress must protect the taxpayers and ensure that no more federal funds are not subject to waste, fraud or abuse...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers in testimony before Congress that a long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for the Bush administration on torture will be released at the end of the November. read more
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Isn't this interesting? "First, a Web site called "Main Justice" reported on Wednesday (and we have since confirmed) that the Justice Department has, for now, ordered two key career attorneys not to comply with a subpoena about the case issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission, by law, has explicit power to issue subpoenas, and the law mandates that "all federal...
