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Emil Alperin et al. v. Vatican Bank, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, April 19, 2005 [ruling that claims made by Eastern European survivors of the Holocaust against gold and other holdings of the World War II...

A group of amateur hockey players in Canada called the "Wednesday Nighters" has filed a claim in Ontario Superior Court to determine whether who can play for the Stanley Cup , the trophy traditionally awarded to...

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) , the largest US grocery union, has filed a complaint against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ...

Supporting Human Rights: The US Record 2004-2005, US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, March 28, 2005. Excerpt:Unlike the 196 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Supporting Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2004-2005 highlights US...

Jordan's State Security Court on Tuesday convicted three Iraqis for smuggling weapons into the country as part of a plan to attack US and Israeli targets. The three were charged with importing weapons including grenades, rockets and...

French lawmakers are expected on Tuesday to strike the final blow to the nation's maligned 35-hour work week , ending the national experiment lauded by workers but criticized as a drain on the country's economy. With national unemployment...

Retail giant Wal-Mart agreed Friday to pay $11 million to settle US Department of Justice allegations that it had employed hundreds of illegal immigrants to perform janitorial services in 60 stores across the country. The...

JURIST Guest Columnists Jamal Jafari and Paul R. Williams of the Public International Law and Policy Group and American University's Washington College of Law insist that under legal standards the situation in Darfur constitutes genocide, whether the UN classifies it...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Circuit Judge Melloy, March 14, 2005 [ruling that Wal-Mart violated labor laws when it disciplined an employee for wearing a union t-shirt and...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Wal-Mart violated labor laws when it disciplined an employee for wearing a union t-shirt and announcing a union meeting to co-workers. In...