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• Stop-and-frisk case: NYPD court-appointed monitor gains support from U.S. Just Dept.

  U.S. Justice Department says it would strongly endorse a court-appointed monitor to oversee changes at the New York Police Department if a judge were to find its stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional.The Justice Department filed papers late Wednesday in   Read more »

• NYPD stop-and-frisk trial ruling may come soon

  the Justice Department were filed on the federal court website late Wednesday.Legal and City Hall sources said the Justice Department might merely be planning to file a "friend of the court" brief that provides information on how monitors have worked in other   Read more »

• U.S.: No plans to end broad surveillance program

  from terrorists.Facing a global uproar over the programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world, the Justice Department continued to investigate whether the disclosures of Edward Snowden, 29, an employee of government contractor Booz Allen   Read more »

• U.S. portrays Apple as bully at e-book trail

  for electronic books in 2010, forcing an end to price competition and costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars.The Justice Department attorney, Lawrence Buterman, said a dramatic price increase in e-books was "no accident or unforeseen outcome" but   Read more »

• Weiner: James Comey is the right choice to lead the FBI

  Bush that he would resign if the FBI was ordered to continue warrantless searches on Americans without an order from the Department of Justice. The president pleaded ignorance of the law and the facts. Without doubt, he saw a political disaster at hand --   Read more »

Around the web

• Britain charges ex-UBS trader in Libor rate-rigging case

  London, New York and Tokyo were making false reports to improve the bank’s trading position dating to 2005. The Justice Department has used information provided by Barclays for ongoing criminal investigations into other banks and bank employees. But U.S. prosecutors 35 m ago from Arkansas Online Read more »

• Woman, child held captive with snakes

  face federal charges for allegedly holding a disabled woman and her child captive for more than two years, the US Department of Justice says. They had allegedly threatened her with large snakes and forced her to sleep in a room where an iguana roamed freely 3:18 AM from Big Pond News Read more »

• EU Justice Department stalls India's security clearance

  outsourcing revenue from the EU from $20bn to $50bn, according to Nasscom’s Data Security Council of India. Although the EU Justice Department’s study into India’s data protection regime has not yet been completed, mutterings suggest it has identified significant 2:29 AM from The Register Read more »

• One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed in Mexico

  Los Angeles to the Philippines in January 2011 to engage in sex acts with two 14-year-old boys he met online in 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement Monday. While in the Philippines, Williams allegedly engaged in sex acts with both boys 1:57 AM from Mail.com Read more »

• SEC investigation to continue into ‘suspicious’ acquisition of Heinz stock option

  said Peter Henning, a professor of law at Wayne State University in Detroit and a former fraud investigator for the SEC and Justice Department. The trader ultimately lost the chance to cash in when the Heinz deal closed on June 7, making it a private company 12:53 AM from Pittsburgh Entertainment Read more »