The Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to a case raising the question of when plaintiffs can sue in federal court, as opposed to state court. The question has lately sparked an important political debate, as plaintiffs often prefer to...
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Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers testified Monday at his corporate fraud trial, now in its sixth week in Manhattan federal court. Ebbers said on the stand that he was unschooled in accounting...
Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Monday upheld the convictions of four Bosnian Serbs who found guilty in 2001 of crimes against detainees at a wartime prison camp in Bosnia. Miroslav Kvocka, Mladjo...
Lebanon's Prime Minister Omar Karami announced the resignation of his administration on Monday, just before a no-confidence vote was scheduled to take place. Karami had been under popular pressure to resign after his government was implicated in the February...
Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the Financial Times is reporting that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has expanded his inquiry into the corporate governance and accounting practices at American International Group (AIG)...
The Iraqi Special Tribunal has finished preliminary investigations into some of the crimes allegedly committed by Saddam Husseins top aides and announced Monday that the first group of five will be sent to trial. The five include...
A lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of Russian oil giant Yukos , has said that his client's trial on tax fraud and other charges could end in April. Yuri Shmidt said...
General Rasim Delic , who headed the Bosnian Muslim army during most of the Bosnian civil war that spanned the 1990s, left Sarajevo for the Hague Monday to surrender to the UN tribunal and face trial for war...
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will face trial in a reinforced metal cage, much like the one used for the character Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film, the Silence of the Lambs, London's Sun reports in its Monday edition....
A controversial bankruptcy bill first introduced in 1997 goes up for consideration again Monday in the US Senate . The bill aims to limit the ability of consumers to declare bankruptcy and have their debts nullified. Republican Senator...
