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JURIST Guest Columnist Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and a Fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, says that the new federal bankruptcy legislation signed into law this past Spring weeds...

A military group in Mauritania overthrew the president on Wednesday, with a junta taking temporary control of the West African nation. Mauritanian President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Taya , who has allied with the US in the...

Pakistani officials said Saturday that they will use their enhanced Anti-Terrorism Act to try over 100 members of militant Islamic factions detained in the Punjab province this weekend. The crackdown comes shortly after the revelation that the bombers implicated...

Italy and France announced new security measures Friday designed to combat terrorism following the recent London bombings . Although neither nation has been the target of Islamic terrorists, both have tightened security on transit systems and are investigating...

Leading Thursday's states brief, the South Dakota Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that remarriage does not automatically terminate alimony payments, but recipients must show there is a good cause to continue the payments. Justice Judith Meierhenry wrote, "Absent...

The US Federal Trade Commission announced Wesdnesday that five companies will pay a total of $1.16 million in fines to settle civil charges that they violated FTC anti-spam rules . The companies were...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, following a statement by military commander Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama , head of Fiji's military forces, that the army "will have no qualms about removing a government that will bring back chaos," Fiji Prime Minister...

Following the adoption of a peace treaty , the approval of a new constitution , and the installation of a new government , newly-reappointed Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has, as anticipated ,...

Newly appointed World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz , the former US deputy defense secretary considered one of the most influential "neo-conservatives" in the Bush administration, said Wednesday in the run-up to the G8 summit that developed...

Chinese authorities have detained Zhu Jiuhi, a Beijing lawyer and activist for the development of rule of law after he attempted to file a landmark civil suit against the provincial government and lower-level governments for confiscating private investors' oil...