Stable, wealthier countries like Denmark, Sweden, and New Zealand have the least perceived corruption and poorer, less stable countries like Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar and Somalia have the most, according to government accountability advocacy group Transparency International (TI) ...
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A legal adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued an opinion Tuesday that UK regulations permitting mandatory retirement policies do not violate an EU anti-discrimination law. ECJ Advocate General Jan...
US Senate Democrats on Monday questioned the constitutionality of the Bush administration's proposal to stabilize financial markets and introduced their own plan allowing courts to review purchases of troubled assets by the Treasury Department...
The Canadian Federal Court granted a last-minute stay of removal Monday for US Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman . Hinzman fled to Canada from the US in January 2004 after leaving his unit, rather than deploy...
The chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a government motion Friday to extend from August 30 to September 30 its deadline to file the first fifty factual returns...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the US Department of Defense must release certain photographs of alleged detainee abuse committed by US soldiers serving in Iraq and...
The US-led Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF) announced Monday that it had released an Afghan freelance journalist detained since last year as an enemy combatant . A military spokesman said Jawed Ahmad, who had been...
Lawyers in Nepal began a boycott of court proceedings Sunday to protest the suspension of the national bar association's leader by the Nepalese Supreme Court . The court last week suspended Bishwa Kanta...
ACLU v. Department of Defense, US Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit, September 22, 2008 ....
The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday preliminarily approved applications by independent investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to convert to bank holding companies, which would put the banks under Federal Reserve regulation, grant them...
