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FBI Director Robert Mueller suggested to the House Appropriations Committee in testimony Tuesday that terror suspects be legally prohibited from buying guns. Under current federal regulatory practice, highlighted yesterday in a new Government Accountability Office...

Financial Costs and Loss of Critical Skills Due to DOD's Homosexual Conduct Policy Cannot be Completely Estimated, Government Accountability Office , February 23, 2005 [report indicating that the policy has hurt recruiting and retention as the war in Iraq has...

Citing a Government Accountability Office study, several lawmakers Thursday called for an end to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexuals. The report , released Wednesday, indicated that the policy has hurt recruiting and retainment...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Senator Arlen Specter announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will start an investigation into how criminals were able to gain access to at least 145,000 consumer profiles...

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, a former senior executive at Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. and two executives from American International Group Inc. (AIG) have pleaded guilty to fraud charges. The charges were...

Amnesty International has issued a Valentine's Day warning that "conflict diamonds," gems whose sale finances war, terrorism, and human rights abuses, are still being imported into the US due to loopholes in Customs procedures. The 2003...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, prosecutors have announced that former HealthSouth Corp. president and director James P. Bennett has been indicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, money laundering and lying to the FBI...

In an exclusive JURIST op-ed before his testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Admiral John Hutson (Ret. USN), former Navy Judge Advocate General and now President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center, says that Judge Alberto Gonzales' reading...

Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law:"At Guantanamo, a Prison Within a Prison: Within the heavily guarded perimeters of the Defense Department's much-discussed Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the CIA has maintained a detention facility for valuable al Qaeda...

Judges of the Ukrainian Supreme Court were reported by opposition sources Friday to have received threats after ordering a ban Thursday on publication of the country's disputed presidential election results pending their hearing of an opposition appeal. A parallel...