The department must also approve any prosecution based on violations of election law.
Only 72 of the indictments were based on violations of the elimination of violence against women law.
"This case is based on violations of state law and should be adjudicated in state court," a spokesman for Mr. Spitzer said yesterday.
The UniCredit suit makes many of the same claims, with the additional twist of seeking nearly $60 billion based on violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as R.I.C.O., which authorizes triple damages.
Monday's order instructed the parties to file briefs on the question of "whether and under what circumstances the Alien Tort Statute" allows courts to hear claims based on "violations of the law of nations occurring within the territory of a sovereign other than the United States".
The AOSI-Pathfinder lawsuit contested the constitutionality of the policy based on violations of freedom of speech, and the right to be free of compelled speech or of forced agreement with a government position.
In his decision, based on violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, the judge found that the plaintiffs' lawyer, Steven Donziger, committed mail fraud, engaged in coercion, and paid bribes in order to win judgment against Texaco, which Chevron brought in 2001. .
Despite its being passed specifically to protect the rights of ex-slaves from the South's new Black Codes, the Supreme Court astonishingly ruled the 14th Amendment did not apply to states as it dismissed indictments for lynching two blacks that had been issued based on violations of the amendment.
Charges against Mr. Haarde, who was prime minister from 2006 until the beginning of 2009, should be based on "violations committed from February 2008 through the beginning of October of the same year, by intent or gross neglect, mostly violations against the laws of ministerial responsibility" as well as breaches of the Icelandic penal code, the committee said.
Additional limitations of this study include that driving errors and violations are categorized based on violations charged.
