Law

Holder Returns To Law Firm That Lobbies For Big Banks

July 10, 2015 Lee Hang, www.firstlook.org Educate! Banking, Capitalism, Corruption, Eric Holder, Law

By Lee Hang in The Intercept - After failing to criminally prosecute any of the financial firms responsible for the market collapse in 2008, former Attorney General Eric Holder is returning to Covington & Burling, a corporate law firm known for serving Wall Street clients. The move completes one of the more troubling trips through the revolving door for a cabinet secretary. Holder worked at Covington from 2001 right up to being sworn in as attorney general in Feburary 2009. And Covington literally kept an office empty for him, awaiting his return. The Covington & Burling client list has included four of the largest banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. Lobbying records show that Wells Fargo is still a client of Covington.

Occupy The Farm Plans New Protests Against Univ Of California

July 10, 2015 Damin Esper, www.mercurynews.com Resist! California, Farming, Law, Occupy

By Damin Esper in Mercury News - The activists organized as "Occupy the Farm" are not giving up their fight against a mixed use development by the University of California at a portion of its property along San Pablo Avenue, despite the loss in court of an appeal under the California Environmental Quality Act. Occupy the Farm has announced it will be holding a protest event at the property at San Pablo Avenue and Monroe Street on July 16. "Love the Land? Take a Stand!" is the name of the event, scheduled for 4 p.m. The event is timed to mark one month since the June 16 ruling by the state Court of Appeals, which voted 3-0 to deny the appeal. The group asks protesters to join them "one month after the court's misruling to take a stand and demonstrate refusal to accept the misuse of public land in utter disregard of environmental and public health."

Eric Holder: Justice Dep’t Could Strike Deal With Edward Snowden

July 7, 2015 Michael Isikoff, www.yahoo.com Resist! Eric Holder, Law, Snowden, usa

By Michael Isikoff in Yahoo - Former Attorney General Eric Holder said today that a “possibility exists” for the Justice Department to cut a deal with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that would allow him to return to the United States from Moscow. In an interview with Yahoo News, Holder said “we are in a different place as a result of the Snowden disclosures” and that “his actions spurred a necessary debate” that prompted President Obama and Congress to change policies on the bulk collection of phone records of American citizens. Asked if that meant the Justice Department might now be open to a plea bargain that allows Snowden to return from his self-imposed exile in Moscow, Holder replied: “I certainly think there could be a basis for a resolution that everybody could ultimately be satisfied with. I think the possibility exists.”

Egypt Will Be Worse Than Pre-2011 With New Terrorism Law

July 7, 2015 Sarah El-Deeb, www.AP.org Resist! Criminal Justice, Dictatorship, Egypt, Freedom of Expression, Law, Revolution, Terrorism

By Sarah El-Deeb in Business Insider - After a series of stunning militant attacks, Egypt's government is pushing through a controversial new anti-terrorism draft bill that would set up special terrorism courts, shorten the appeals process, give police greater powers of arrest and imprison journalists who report information on attacks that differs from the official government line. The draft raised concerns that officials are taking advantage of heightened public shock at last week's audacious attacks to effectively enshrine into law the notorious special emergency laws which were in place for decades until they were lifted following the 2011 ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Rather than reviewing security policies since the attacks, officials have largely been focusing blame on the media for allegedly demoralizing troops and on the slowness of the courts.

Occupy Protesters Pepper Sprayed By Cop Settle $60,000 Lawsuit

July 7, 2015 Christina Carrega-Woodby, www.nydailynews.com Resist! Law, New York City (NYC), Occupy Wall Street

By Christina Carrega-Woodby in NY Daily News - Two Occupy Wall Street protesters who were pepper sprayed by a high-ranking cop have settled their lawsuits for $60,000 each, the Daily News has learned. Chelsea Elliott and Jeanne Mansfield, whose payout is the most awarded to any individual Occupy Wall Street protesters, sued the city and Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna in Manhattan Federal Court for blinding them with the spray during a protest on Sept. 24, 2011 near Union Square. “I’m gracious and thankful that we were able to hold them accountable. Freedom of speech is important,” Elliott told The News. Elliott, 28 of San Francisco and Mansfield of Boston learned about the settlement after the city quietly filed last week. “It’s crazy watching [the video] now, seeing it all happen again, it was surreal and strange,” said Elliott.

Thai Students Vow To Continue Democracy Struggle, Despite Arrests

July 3, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Democracy, Law, Student Activism, Thailand

By Ashoka Jegroo in Waging NonViolence - After days of protests against the ruling military junta, police in Thailand arrested 14 students on June 26 for violating the ban on public gatherings. The students had staged multiple protests in Bangkok this week against the junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order, as well as the charges brought upon students for staging a protest on May 22 — the one-year anniversary of the junta’s seizure of power from former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The junta, led by now-Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, overthrew Yingluck, Thailand’s first female prime minister, in a bloodless coup last year after months of violent protests against her elected-but-corrupt regime.

Spain: March Against New Law Criminalizing Protest

July 3, 2015 Mary Scully, www.maryscullyreports.com Resist! Freedom of Expression, Law, police brutality, Repression, Spain

By Mary Scully - Despite massive protests in cities across Spain for months, the regime has installed a new security law criminalizing protests. It’s a sweeping, draconian law that does more than silence opposition to the EU-IMF austerity policies but is a frontal assault on civil liberties & democracy. Activists are given steep fines for protests in front of government buildings; fines for obstructing police officers evicting families & seniors from public housing sold to private investors; fines for taking photos of police engaged in abusive behavior; fines for showing lack of respect for police; the homeless & prostitutes will be fined; & immigrants & refugees will be returned to Morocco without the due process required by international law.

In Oklahoma, Fracking Companies Can Be Sued Over Earthquakes

July 3, 2015 Emily Atkin, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Earthquake, Environment, Fracking, Law, Oklahoma

By Emily Atkin in Think Progress - If you live in Oklahoma, and you’ve been injured by an earthquake that was possibly triggered by oil and gas operations, you can now sue the oil company for damages. That’s the effect of a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which on Tuesday rejected efforts by the oil industry to prevent earthquake injury lawsuits from being heard in court. Instead of being decided by juries and judges, the industry was arguing that cases should be resolved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, a state regulatory agency. The state’s high court rejected that argument. “The Commission, although possessing many of the powers of a court of record, is without the authority to entertain a suit for damages,” the opinion reads. “Private tort actions, therefore, are exclusively within the jurisdiction of district courts.”

Japan’s Diet Gets 1.65m Signatures Against Security Bills

July 1, 2015 China Daily, www.chinadaily.com.cn Resist! Japan, Law, Security

By China Daily - A citizen group named "Anti-war Committee of 1000" on Monday submitted to the Diet of Japan more than 1.65 million signed protests demanding the Diet to give up the controversial security legislations and the decision to lift the ban on collective self-defense. The committee, sponsored by constitution scholars and authors, has launched an initiative in January 2015 to collect signed protests regarding the Cabinet's decision last July to allow Japan exercise collective self-defense right and the planned passage of "war bills" during the current Diet session. As of late May, they have collected more than 1.65 million signatures and have submitted them to the Prime Minister's office on June 23.

Supreme Court Mercury Decision Threatens Public Health

July 1, 2015 Mary Anne Hitt, www.sierraclub.org Educate! Coal, Environment, Law, Public Health, SCOTUS

By Mary Anne Hitt in Sierra Club - Today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to send the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) back to the EPA for further proceedings is a decision that endangers public health, but it won't revive the fortunes of Big Coal. These standards were designed to safeguard local communities against dangerous pollution from power plants. Unfortunately, today millions of Americans won't yet be able to breathe more easily. Practically speaking, today's decision won't revive the fortunes of Big Coal or slow down our nation's transition to clean energy. Most utilities have long since made decisions about how to meet the standard, since the compliance deadline was April 2015. Only a few dozen coal plants are still operating today with no pollution controls for mercury and air toxics and no clear plans to install them.

Reprieve In Texas, Assault On Reproductive Rights Continues

July 1, 2015 John Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! Abortion, Law, SCOTUS, Texas, Womyn's Rights

By John Queally in Common Dreams - Advocates for reproductive rights welcomed the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday which put a block on a Texas law that would have shuttered nearly every abortion clinic in the state. In a 5-4 decision (pdf), the ruling came in the form of a stay that will delay enforcement of the law—originally passed in the Texas legislature as H.B. 2 and signed into law in 2013—until a full challenge is taken up by the court. The stay, in effect, suspends a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit earlier this month which upheld specific provisions of the law that would have likely resulted in the closure of all but nine abortion clinics in the state.

Washington State Youth Win In Their Climate Change Lawsuit

June 30, 2015 Western Environment Law Center, www.westernlaw.org Resist! Ecology, Environment, Law

By Western Environment Law Center - On Tuesday, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill issued a landmark decision in Zoe & Stella Foster v. Washington Department of Ecology, the climate change case brought by eight young citizens of Washington State. In her decision, Judge Hill ordered the Washington Department of Ecology (“Ecology”) to reconsider the petition the eight youth filed with Ecology last year asking for carbon dioxide reductions, and to report back to the court by July 8, 2015, as to whether they will consider the undisputed current science necessary for climate recovery. Last June, the young petitioners filed a petition for rulemaking to Ecology requesting that the agency promulgate a rule that would limit carbon dioxide emissions in Washington according to what scientists say is needed to protect our oceans and climate system.

Why It’s So Hard To Regulate Fracking

June 30, 2015 Justin Miller, www.prospect.org Educate! Environment, Fracking, Law, Science

By Justin Miller in Prospect - Without a clear mandate from the EPA, regulations at the federal level may well remain limited, though the Obama administration has made some moves to regulate fracking. This March the president announced new safety regulations for fracking, a first at the national level. However, given the limits of unilateral federal authority the restrictions can only apply to federal and tribal land and have no impact on the vast spectrum of state and local laws. Despite the relatively small scope of the rules, that didn’t stop two oil industry groups from immediately suing to challenge the regulations. Nor did it stop 27 Republicans, including Republican Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, from swiftly introducing legislation that would kill the policy.

‘Royally Screwed’: Activists Eviscerate Gov. Cuomo After Rent Laws Deal

June 29, 2015 Ross Barkan, www.observer.com Resist! Housing, Law, New York (NY), Rent, Tenants

By Ross Barkan in The Observer - Telling reporters that they were “royally screwed,” tenant activists and a Democratic city councilman blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo today for failing to bolster rent regulations as much as they had hoped. Gathered outside Mr. Cuomo’s Midtown office, the activists from left-leaning groups including Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change and Crown Heights Tenant Union called the Democratic governor a Republican, said he had done the equivalent of urinating on them, and even claimed he would be arrested before he sought re-election in 2018. “The deal that is about to be voted on is worse than the deal in 2011. They have done absolutely nothing to help tenants in New York City,” said Councilman Jumaane Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat and chair of the Council’s housing and buildings committee.

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