The US Conference of Catholic Bishops Friday voted to extend a policy to ban abusive priests from working in the church by a margin of 228-4. The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People ,...
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has spoken out against the United Nations Reform Act of 2005 , passed by the US House of Representatives on Friday, which will cut 50% of US dues to the...
UN Reform Act, passed by US House of Representatives on June 17, 2005 . Read...
MasterCard announced late Friday that a security lapse at CardSystems Solutions , a third-party processing company in Tuscon, Arizona, has potentially exposed more than 40 million cards to fraud, and that it has notified banks of...
Leading Friday's states brief, the Iowa Supreme Court today refused to address the ruling of a lower court that dissolved a Vermont civil union . The Supreme Court did not judge the merits of the legal claim...
Texas Governor Rick Perry Friday signed into law legislation which creates a new life-without-parole sentencing option in state capital murder cases. Previously, Texas juries have only had the option of sentencing offenders to death...
A UN panel has expressed "great concern" at the increase in unsentenced detainees in Canadian prisons following recent federal sentencing reform . There are currently in Canada more incarcerated persons awaiting trial or sentencing than there are...
The lower chamber of the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature approved a ban of the morning-after pill on state college campuses Thursday, sending the bill to the state Senate. The proposed legislation would ban University...
Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been sued by the US Department of the Treasury's Comptroller of the Currency and by the Clearing House , a...
Under new guidelines , US military health professionals are permitted to observe and advise on "lawful" interrogations of detainees, but may not participate in questioning and must report any inhumane treatment. The guidelines, contained in a June...
