US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Germany, Romania, and the European Union headquarters in Brussels next week in an attempt to defuse increasing pressure by the EU to respond to allegations that the...
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Canadian legislators voted Monday night to defeat the Liberal minority government on a no-confidence motion proposed by the three opposition parties. The 171 to 133 House of Commons vote forces Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin ...
Federal prosecutors filed a proposed jury questionnaire in US district court Monday requesting permission to ask questions regarding the religious beliefs of potential jurors in the case against Zacarias Moussaoui for his...
Margaret Bradshaw, Warden v. Kenneth T. Richey, Supreme Court of the United States, November 28, 2005 [summarily reversing a federal appeals court decision that erased the conviction and death sentence of a dual US and British citizen for setting...
Federated Investors has agreed to pay $100 million to settle allegations of improper trading . The investment firm was accused of allowing $1.6 billion in rapid trades by the hedge fund Canary Capital...
Provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005, Parliament of Australia, Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, November 28, 2005 [report on pending Australian anti-terrorism legislation calling for the removal of the sedition section of the laws and seeking to shorten...
A three-judge panel of the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld a lower court decision striking down a Missouri law restricting late-term abortions. The Infant Protection Act was passed in July 2004...
Leading Monday's environmental law news, the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 11) began today with the first session of the meeting of the Parties...
Armenian electoral officials report that nearly 64 percent of registered voters in the former Soviet republic turned out Sunday to give overwhelming support to a referendum to change the country's constitution and impose stricter separation of powers...
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court announced Monday that the Hague-based court expects its first round of trials to start as early as mid-2006. In connection with this week's meeting of states...
