Word: court
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Colombia's Banco de Occidente has no U.S. branches, but its Panamanian subsidiary did a booming underground business in America. The Panama bank is expected to plead guilty in Atlanta federal court this week to charges that it laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in drug profits for Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. The bank allegedly collected the illicit money in New York bank accounts, from which money was wired electronically to Europe and Latin America...
...greatest concession offers the republics the power to question national laws before a strengthened high court...
...party suggests that such disputes be settled by the Constitutional Control Commission, a quasi Supreme Court that was created last year...
FARRAR'S answer was an emphatic "yes," and she filed a suit in federal district court saying her fetus was being held without charges, trial, access to counsel or a sentence...
Prior to the high court's ruling this summer, such a suit would have seemed frivolous and hopeless. But it is a measure of how far we've come--or, more accurately, how far backwards we've slid--that such ridiculous legal action could now stand a reasonable chance of success...