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...site Venture Hacks lists Hoan Ton-That as the sole member of HappyAppy Inc, a relationship that was confirmed by Hoan’s lawyer, Andre Gharakhanian of Silicon Legal Strategy...
...century ago, a young lawyer named George Graham Vest, later to become a U.S. senator, addressed a Missouri courthouse on a case concerning the killing...
...Federation. While several elements contributed to the statistic (Russia's large population in proportion to the rest of Europe, for one), the chief factor was clear: Russians are unhappy with their own court system and don't believe they can get justice from it. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, a lawyer himself, announced plans to reform the Russian justice system to stop the flow of complaints to the ECHR in Strasbourg, France. Said Medvedev: "I generally agree that the Strasbourg court, with all my respect for it, cannot and should not replace Russian justice...
...billion payout could cripple the economy. Others suggest that, with a judgment against it, Russia could sever its ties with the European Council and the ECHR altogether. "This is speculation, but if it happened, it would be more than a loss," says Karina Moskalenko, a human-rights lawyer who has worked with Khodorkovsky. "It would be a disaster for all the individuals who have been cheated by our judicial system. For them the European Court of Human Rights is their last possible hope...
Besides the cost to U.S. taxpayers of prosecuting all those extraditados - which often involves transportation and housing for witnesses, hiring bilingual lawyers and translating paperwork - tens of thousands of dollars are also spent annually to incarcerate each foreign detainee. What's more, for every Don Diego, there are dozens who rarely merit the trouble of extradition. "There is no system to filter the important from the unimportant," says Joaquin Perez, a Miami-based lawyer who defends accused Colombian traffickers. Many of those caught in the net are small-fry - like the smuggler's driver, the document forger...