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Lickbarrow v Mason ((1788), 2 T. R. 63 and (1794) 5 TR 683) refers to an English legal case in which it was determined that a shipped or endorsed bill of lading is a document of title at common law, i.e. a document which can be owned and therefore the ownership of it could be sold or otherwise transferred to someone else.
Anger at the House banking scandal led Congress to create the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, a special joint House-Senate tasked with recommending reforms to the Legislative Branch. Resolutions to create the Joint Committee were introduced in summer 1991, but they did not gain traction until after the scandal.
Yet only recently have they faced official consequences, and it appears no criminal charges will be filed in what public evidence shows was an egregious abuse of power. In this case, justice moved ...
John Dean (R) White House Counsel, convicted of obstruction of justice, later reduced to felony offenses and served 4 months. Dwight Chapin (R) Secretary to the President of the United States, convicted of perjury. Charles Colson (R) Special Counsel to the President for Public Liaison, convicted of obstruction of justice. Served 7 months.
The woman who was at the center of a yearslong Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that the now ...
House of Representatives: California 1978 Conspiracy to defraud the United States Koreagate [31] Democrat: James F. Hastings: House of Representatives: New York 1976 Mail fraud [32] Republican: Andrew J. Hinshaw: House of Representatives: California 1976 Bribery [33] Republican: John H. Hoeppel: House of Representatives: California 1935
On April 12, 2009, Times-Picayune columnist James Gill cited the emergence of a group styling itself "Friends of Congressman William J. Jefferson" and opined that the group should change its name to "Friends of ex-Congressman William J. Jefferson"; Gill, reporting Jefferson's argument that 14 of the 16 felony counts against him should be thrown ...
The following day, the full House voted 114–1 to impeach the governor. The lone dissenter was Chicago-area Representative Milton Patterson; three other representatives abstained. [113] [114] After the Illinois House impeached Blagojevich, the Illinois Senate held a trial at which Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas R. Fitzgerald presided.