STRIKE DEBT. Welcome to Collapse Network - essential news & analysis for our future. Pressure Points. Cobell v. Salazar. Cobell v.
Salazar (previously Cobell v. Kempthorne and Cobell v. Norton and Cobell v. Babbitt) is a class-action lawsuit brought by Native American representatives against two departments of the United States government. The plaintiffs claim that the U.S. government has incorrectly accounted for the income from Indian trust assets, which are legally owned by the Department of the Interior, but held in trust for individual Native Americans (the beneficial owners). The case is sometimes reported as the largest class-action lawsuit against the U.S. in history, but the basis for this claim is a matter of dispute.
The case was settled for $3.4 billion in 2009, with $1.4 billion going to the plaintiffs and $2 billion allocated to repurchase land that was distributed under the Dawes Act and return it to communal tribal ownership. Early Federal Indian trust law[edit] Fruit of a failed policy[edit] The case[edit] Cobell v. Early victories for plaintiffs[edit] Lamberth removed[edit] Settlement[edit] ERI files two briefs in U.S. Supreme Court challenging corporate immunity for human rights abuses. ERI filed two friend of the court briefs today in separate cases before the U.S.
Supreme Court, urging the Court to find that corporations and other entities can be sued when they are responsible for violations of fundamental human rights, just as they can be for everyday injuries. In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., the Court is considering whether corporations are immune from suit under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in Kiobel that corporations cannot be sued, but four other Courts of Appeals have heard that they can. ERI and our co-counsel have pioneered this kind of litigation with our ATS suit against Unocal for its complicity in abuses in Burma, which successfully settled; and we achieved a similarly successful settlement in Wiwa v. The United States government also submitted an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs, making essentially the same argument. FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now. The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance .
In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities, CNET has learned. The FBI general counsel's office has drafted a proposed law that the bureau claims is the best solution: requiring that social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail alter their code to ensure their products are wiretap-friendly. "If you create a service, product, or app that allows a user to communicate, you get the privilege of adding that extra coding," an industry representative who has reviewed the FBI's draft legislation told CNET.
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With over $2 trillion in assets, branches in 43 states, more than 250,000 employees, and expanding operations in Asia, Europe the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Canada, the scale and reach of Bank of America's business is immense. The scale and reach of Bank of America's investments in coal are immense, as well. While the bank claims to take its responsibility for its investments' impacts on the environment and climate seriously in its corporate social responsibility reports, Bank of America is a leading investor in dirty, polluting coal. Vultures' Picnic. United Nations News & Commentary Global News – Forum. News. Science News, Articles and Information. Journal home : Nature. Science News. Homepage.
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