The New Orleans-based federal judge charged with co-ordinating the approximately 1800 pending federal lawsuits relating to the withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx from pharmacists' shelves last year has ruled that the first federal trial...
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A federal judge in Missouri Friday slapped a temporary restraining order on a law signed the day before by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt that allowed parents to file suit against anyone who helped their minor daughters get...
With the confirmation hearings on Judge John Roberts concluded and the nominee apparently well on his way to a favorable Senate vote and formal appointment as the new Chief Justice of the United States, President Bush...
Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has formally set out its plans to alleviate corporate financial strain caused by Hurricane Katrina . In a press release, the agency...
The UN General Assembly High-level Plenary Friday evening approved a watered-down 35-page package of modest institutional reforms and global policy initiatives in the culminating moment of the biggest summit ...
Newspaper publishing giant Hollinger International Inc. announced Friday that it had reached a $20 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by advertisers over claims that it inflated circulation figures for the Chicago Sun-Times [media...
A US district judge Friday ordered mediation in a civil suit brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , raising the possibility of settlement in the $800...
Leading Friday's states brief, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled today that a one-room religious school must comply with health and plumbing regulations even if doing so would infringe on their sectarian beliefs. The school was closed...
Police in Nepal Friday arrested 87 journalists protesting restrictions placed on the media since King Gyanendra seized power in February. Police also arrested 200 other protestors at a pro-democracy demonstration in Kathmandu...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced Friday that it had taken Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Sredoje Lukic into custody almost seven years after he was originally indicted....
