Month: June 2014

E.I du Pont de Nemours & Co. (DuPont), an American chemical company that makes genetically modified crops, recently settled a lawsuit with Monsanto Company (Monsanto), a competitor in the same market. In 1992, Monsanto secured a patent on a genetically engineered trait named Roundup Ready that makes soybean plants immune to a specific herbicide called […]

Shortly after Governor Scott Walker won the June 2012 recall election in Wisconsin, District Attorney John Chisholm launched a secret probe to investigate illegal activity surrounding the election. This secret probe is referred to as a John Doe proceeding and is defined by Wisconsin Statute 968.26 as a proceeding to determine whether a crime has been committed […]

According to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2007, 43% of fraud detected in American corporations was due to whistleblowers, whereas professional auditors constituted only 19%. With the government providing more incentives to employees for blowing the whistle on their employers questionably illegal activities, corporate executives are becoming unsure about whom they can trust. A corporations team […]

Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is an advocacy group that fights for “smart sentencing laws that protect public safety. Although they typically represent the interests of prisoners who have been subject to strict prison sentences for drug related crimes, they have recently launched a campaign to promote lighter punishments for financial crimes. In the aftermath […]

Lincoln Caylor, the co-author of a paper titled Parliamentary restrictions on judicial discretion in sentencing: A defense of minimum mandatory sentences urges Judges who find ways to circumvent minimum sentencing laws to resign as judges and run for Parliament instead. It has been reported that Canadian judges are finding ways to avoid applying mandatory minimum sentencing […]