EIGroup Legal

Date	Event	Action
2004-12-20	During World War II, the US Army seized a trainload of gold, jewels, and other valuables from the Nazis. The items aboard were never returned to the Hungarian Jews from which they were stolen. Survivors sued in U.S. federal court in Miami in 2001, but the US Justice Department sought to have the ca ...	profile
2004-12-16	Britain's highest court rules against the detention of foreign terrorism suspects without trial. Nine Law Lords rule in favor of nine Muslim men who had been held in prison for up to three years under legislation introduced after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Most of the men are b ...	profile
2004-11-01	Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian Nobel Laureate, sues the U.S. government over restrictions that could block the publication of her memoirs in America. The U.S. Treasury Department has regulations restricting the publication of works by authors in countries subject to U.S. trade sanctions	profile
2004-10-30	Bill O'Reilly, having been caught on tape sexually harassing his female producer, settles the lawsuit out of court for an undisclosed amount. This is after he had launched a preemptive strike against his accuser suggesting it was an extortion scheme.	profile
2004-10-14	The New York Daily News headline reads "O'REALLY!" to announce charges of sexual harassment against fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly.	profile
2004-10-13	Benedict Morelli, an attorney for Fox News producer Andrea Mackris speaks at a news conference in New York announcing her law suit against Bill O'Reilly.	profile
2004-08-26	U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey in Manhattan finds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional because it does not include a health exception.	profile
2004-08-12	California's Supreme Court annulls more than 4,000 gay marriages in San Francisco. The court rules that the city acted improperly in granting the marriage licenses earlier this year in defiance of state law.	profile
2004-08-04	Missourians voted 71% to 29% to amend their state constitution to define marriage as between a man and woman only. It is the first time voters got to weigh in since the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution on July 14. In addition to Louisiana, the nine other ...	profile
2004-08-01	Citing the required participation in Patriot Act Watch Lists, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero writes a letter to Combined Federal Campaign Director Mara Patermaster declaring that "John Ashcroft and this administration have created a climate of fear and intimidation that undermines the health ...	profile
2004-07-21	New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announces that Eight states and New York City are suing five of the nation's power companies to force them to decrease carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.	profile
2004-07-20	Martha Stewart appears on CNN's Larry King Live in her first live interview since being sentenced. She announces her intentions to write a book about her trial experience to help others facing that process.	profile
2004-06-21	In a 5-4 split decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that people do not have a constitutional right to refuse to tell police officers their names. The case is Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of the state of Nevada, 03-5554.	profile
2004-06-19	The Houston Chronicle reports that Kenneth Lay will likely face fraud charges similar to those filed against former Enron chief executive office Jeffrey Skilling and former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey.	profile
2004-06-14	The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Michael Newdow, an atheist father, could not sue to ban the pledge from his daughter's school and others because he does not have sufficient custody of the child to qualify as her legal representative, eight members of the court said.	profile
2004-06-14	The Israeli Attorney General decides that there is insufficient evidence in the bribery case against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his son Gilad over the so-called Greek Island affair. Allegations were that Ariel Sharon used his influence to try to win the Greek government's approval for ...	profile
2004-06-11	The jury in the case against Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols deadlocks, thus taking death penalty off the table.	profile
2004-06-10	A lawsuit filed in San Diego, CA on behalf of nine Iraqis alleges that employees of Titan and CACI International conspired to torture prisoners in order to obtain more information from them, thereby increasing their chances of winning more government contracts.	profile
2004-06-01	U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton permanently blocks the Bush administration from enforcing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against Planned Parenthood Federation of America clinics and their doctors. "The act poses an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion," Hamilton wrote in he ...	profile
2004-05-17	Masachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.	profile
2004-05-10	The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American file a law suit against U.S. Marshals Service for the erasure of a reporters' recordings of a speech Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave to high school students.	profile
2004-04-07	Fukuoka District Court rules that Junichiro Koizumi's August 2001 visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo violated the separation of religion and state in Japan's constitution.	profile
2004-03-11	U.S. House passes Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004	profile
2004-03-11	Anthony Romeo and 16 other students sue Seton Hall University for violating the New Jersey state sexual orientation anti-discrimination law and the university's own policies. It had denied the formation of an LGBT student organization.	profile
2003-08-21	St, Louis-based Monsanto Corporation is fined $700 Million for Monsanto Fined $700 Million for PCB chemical contamination of the citizens of Annison, AL. From the 1930s to 1970s Monsanto produced PCBs at its plant in western Anniston. The chemicals, now banned, have been linked to a range of health ...	profile
2003-06-26	The U.S. Supreme Court overturns a Texas sodomy law that prohibited consensual sex by same-sex partners.	profile
2003-06-23	The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in university admissions in its ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger.	profile
2002-09-19	Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Unocal can be sued by Burmese workers over human rights abuses committed by Burmese troops while guarding a gas pipeline project in which Unocal is a partner	profile
1998-07-28	Former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony regarding events in her relationship with US President Bill Clinton.	profile
1998-01-01	All California bars, clubs and card rooms must now be smoke-free according to state law.	profile