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...held accountable for any crime.)Further, Blackwater’s disregard for the law has been registered in these other operations. Notably, a formal complaint was lodged against contractors in Afghanistan after a contracted plane crashed in 2004, leaving three United States soldiers dead. In a successful suit filed by the families of the soldiers claiming that the contractors were in violation of multiple laws, four contracting firms were named: Aviation Worldwide Services LLC, Presidential Airways Inc., STI Aviation Inc., and Air Quest Inc. According to the report, these are all subsidiaries of the Prince Group, the military contracting...
...Isn’t that awesome?” Petersen shrieked, bouncing up and down *** and pounding on the table, when the conversation turned to the new Web site’s searchable archive feature that will make previous UC legislation available by online query. Sundquist, following suit, chicken- winged his arms and pursed his lips like a fish while cuing a song on Petersen’s laptop...
...western corner of Berlin, for example, a passerby filed an official complaint with the city for illegal display of Nazi propaganda. "What are the tourists going to think, not to speak of old people that were affected by the Nazi regime themselves?," Christian Bredlow, who is bringing the suit, told the Berlin daily Tageszeitung. Similar charges have been filed against the owners of other Berlin sites, including the Nazi-era Ministry of Finance, which are being used as a backdrop for the movie. Such criticisms are not going to stop the film from being made. It is scheduled for release...
...British banned the hoary pastime of Sir John Walter Raleigh last July; smoking indoors now carries fines of ?600 for the offending party, and twice that for the publican. The formerly indomitable French, for whom smoky left-bank cafés and ennui are cultural staples, will follow suit beginning January 1, 2008. And cannabis-fans in the once surreally tolerant Netherlands will have to take their joints down to the banks of the canals and out of the world-famous coffee houses by next July...
...investigative story in 1999 demonstrating how Indonesian leader Suharto and his children had enriched themselves during his 32-year rule, the former dictator sued the magazine for libel. He asked for a remarkable sum of money - $27 billion - and he lost. The Central Jakarta District Court rejected his suit in 2000, a decision that was subsequently upheld by an intermediate appellate court and widely viewed as a victory for press freedom in the country...