Industry leaders including Microsoft and Oracle spoke out on Monday about the need to reform US patent law to curb abusive litigation and protect technological development. The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to meet later today to discuss...
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Russian president Vladimir Putin stressed the need for a law-based society in his annual State of the Nation address on Monday, and encouraging investors to keep their money in Russia. "Tax authorities have no rights...
Arthur Andersen , the former accounting giant which lost its licenses in the Enron collapse, announced a settlement on Monday with WorldCom investors who had accused the firm of violating securities laws and failing to protect them from...
Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Florida's insurance regulation commissioner announced subpoenas have been sent to officials at 17 insurance companies, including units of American International Group Inc. , Chubb Corp., Swiss Re AG [corporate...
Armenians around the world have been remembering the massacre of their people ninety years ago by the Ottoman Empire . Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in the Armenian city of Yerevan Sunday to pay...
Report of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, M. Cherif Bassiouni, filed March 11 2005 and submitted to the 61st Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, April 21, 2005 [saying that he had...
The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Oregon v. Guzek (docket 04-928), a death sentence case involving a convicted murderer's efforts to bring evidence into his sentencing hearing that would cast doubt on the conviction. A ruling here...
Following yet another interruption because of his health problems, the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Monday at the International Court Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Milosevic stayed out of...
The Legislative Commission of the National People's Congress of China has presented a draft interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law that would permit a new Hong Kong Chief Executive to be elected to the remainder of...
A UK newspaper has disclosed that the legal advice rendered to Prime Minister Tony Blair's government on the eve of the Iraq war included multiple caveats that were not included in a one-page summary supporting the conflict that was...
