Defend the Press Coalition to Discuss Dismissed Subpoena of Journalists from the US v Watada Court Martial.
'Journalists Should Never Participate in the Prosecution of Political Speech!' Journalist, Sarah Olson WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Defend the Press Coalition will hold a news conference on February 1 to discuss the dismissed subpoena of journalists from the US v Watada Court Martial. WHAT:...

Air Cargo News.
Apr 2, 2007 US DHS to test cargo screening technologies in Cincinnati DHS will test air cargo screening technologies at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport this spring. The tests are part of a $30 million pilot program launched in June 2006. Mar 27, 2007 ABX Air,...

Orthopedic companies settle kickback probe.
More than two years of legal wrangling have come to an end as federal prosecutors settled with five orthopedic device companies after an investigation into allegations the companies paid kickbacks to surgeons to use their products. In March 2005, the companies--Zimmer, Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics division,...

Genworth Financial Has Received SEC and Justice Department Subpoenas.
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genworth Financial, Inc. today said that one of its business units has received subpoenas from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice related to an investigation of bid-rigging involving guaranteed investment contracts (GICs) sold to municipalities. ...

Under fire: journalists have been barraged by a spate of subpoenas to identify confidential sources and court decisions ordering them to comply. Investigative reporting could suffer if more ensue. Can the media fight back? Does the public care?
Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper's 6-year-old son doesn't read the New York Times or watch C-SPAN, so as Christmas approached he remained blissfully ignorant that his father faced up to 18 months in jail for refusing to reveal his confidential sources. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While a...

Fighting like tigers: a conference explores how to protect sources in a hostile legal and political climate.
The journalist-source relationship so essential to investigative reporting has come under assault. Journalists have been barraged with a spate of subpoenas ordering that they identify confidential sources and with court decisions compelling them to comply. The Bush administration has launched leak investigations to find out who shared classified information...

Poison pill: how Abramoff's cronies sold the Medicare drug bill.
When Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) pleaded guilty in September to selling legislative favors to clients of the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, it signaled that the fallout from the corruption scandal is far from over. Indeed, prosecutors are still issuing subpoenas, using information fed to them by Abramoff and three...

US Justice Department investigates anti-trust activities: Smith & Nephew gets US subpoena, along with US competitors.
Several orthopaedics companies, including Smith & Nephew plc, have received subpoenas from the US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, requesting documents for the period beginning January 2001 through to the present relating to possible violations of US antitrust laws, in respect of the manufacture and sale of orthopaedic implant...

The underprivileged profession: the case for Supreme Court recognition of the journalist's privilege.
[T]he public has a right to every man's evidence, a maxim which in its proper sense cannot be denied. (1) --Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, during debate in Parliament, 1742 [Edmund] Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat...

Uncharted terrain: while it's too soon to gauge the extent of the damage, the Judith Miller/Matthew Cooper case already has clouded source-reporter relationships and impelled news organizations and journalists to reexamine practices ranging from negotiating with sources to taking and storing notes.
When Danielle Brian read that Time Inc. was giving reporter Matthew Cooper's notes and e-mails to the special prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity, she was stunned. "It was a bombshell for us when we saw what Time had done," says Brian, executive director...