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A US federal court has frozen the Palestinian Authority's access to assets held in the US after it failed to pay $116 in damages for the 1996 shooting deaths of an American citizen and his Israeli wife. After the...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

Martha Stewart agreed on Wednesday to a three-week extension of her home confinement as part of her sentence for lying about a stock sale . Neither Stewart's lawyers or government officials gave a...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Sprint has said it will buy its affiliate and litigant, US Unwired . In a press release, Sprint said it will purchase its Louisiana-based distributor for $1.3 billion and...

Fomer Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov is being investigated by Russia's Prosecutor General for fraud and abuse of trust, according to Russian media reports Monday. Kasyanov is suspected of buying a $100 million country home and another...

JURIST Guest Columnist Scott Gerber of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law says that the second President of the United States has some good advice on the upcoming Supreme Court nomination process necessitated by the retirement of Justice Sandra...

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the membership configuration of the California Coastal Commission's does not violate the separation of powers clause of the state's constitution. Four of the commissioners are appointed...

Seeking Asylum is Not a Crime: Detention of people who have sought asylum, Amnesty International, June 20, 2005 . Excerpt:Amnesty International's report highlights the denial of justice suffered by many people...

A New York state housing group claimed in a report released Monday that nearly half of the real estate agencies in New York City's northern suburbs treated blacks and Hispanics unfairly, according to recent tests. The...

In the biggest settlement yet in the Catholic clergy child sex abuse scandal , the Kentucky Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington agreed on Friday to set up a $120 million fund to pay victims. A...