The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPBB) released a "draft" rule on May 24, 2012 outlining how it plans to supervise debt collectors, consumer credit reporting agencies, money services companies and other small nonbanks that engage in "activities that pose risks to consumers."
International judges (ICC) have sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to an unprecedented 50 years imprisonment (on Wednesday, May 30, 2012), ruling that he was responsible for "some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history" by arming and supporting Sierre Leone rebels in return for "blood diamonds".
[The Legal Times, Wednesday, 5/30/2012]
Maryland: Murder Conviction Overturned.
The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of felony murder 36 years ago in the killing of a Hagerstown, Maryland police officer.
In the process the high court has reopened the courthouse door, so to speak, to the state's inmates (for new trials) convicted of violent crimes prior to 1980, when Maryland judges' jury instructions were merely "advisory".
[The Daily Record, Tuesday, May 29, 2012]
GRAND ROUNDS: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY MEDICINE
Symposium: "The Marriage of Current Law with Current Medicine"; Speaker: Attorney Charles Jerome Ware; 10:00 AM, Wednesday, November 7, 2012; Johns Hopkins University Hospital Baltimore, Maryland
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