US senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Christopher Dodd (D-CT) have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after learning that the number of fines...
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The lower house of the Polish parliament voted 384-56 Tuesday to approve the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon . The upper house is expected...
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday rejected new US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rules that would have retroactively limited the number of claims...
The Bush administration plans to invoke legal waivers to push through completion of 267 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border by the end of this year, federal officials said Tuesday according to AP....
A US Department of Defense official pleaded guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to one count of conspiracy for disclosing national defense information. Gregg William Bergersen,...
The European Court of Justice Tuesday ruled that a person in a same-sex partnership has the right to collect their partner's pension benefits after that partner's death. The ruling came in the case of a man...
Egyptian security forces Tuesday arrested five members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood as they were posting campaign fliers on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood candidates slated to run in local council elections scheduled for April 8....
Britain's most senior judge concluded that UK courts are "seriously overstretched" in his first Review of the Administration of Justice in the Courts , published Monday. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers expressed some...
The United Nations should investigate Australia for its alleged military intervention in Fiji during the December 2006 military coup in Fiji, the Fiji Human Rights Commission said in a report released Tuesday. The...
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday sent a joint letter to Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, urging an end to the violent crackdown by Nepalese government security forces against Tibetan...
