The European Court of Justice Tuesday ruled in favor of the controversial EU Food Supplements Directive , scheduled to come into effect August 1. The directive, approved by EU governments in 2002, uses a...
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Issam Ghazzawi, a lawyer with Saddam Hussein's defense team, currently in some disarray after the resignation of its Jordanian leader last week, said in an interview in Tuesday's edition of the Vienna newspaper Die...
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI) introduced a House bill Monday to make existing provisions of the Patriot Act permanent, but stopped short of adding new...
The European Court of Justice Tuesday fined the French government 20 million euros ($24 million) for its failure to comply with EU fishing laws, and then, for the first time in the court's history [press...
After a US Supreme Court ruling in March, the US Tax Court has announced important changes to its procedure, ending the 20-year practice of keeping secret reports prepared by judges at hearings. At issue in...
The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill passed final reading in the UK House of Commons Monday in a 301-229 vote. The bill will now go to the House of Lords , where it faced strong...
Royal Dutch/Shell Group announced Tuesday that it has settled a civil suit brought by employees in response to the company's overstatement of reserves for $90 million. The plaintiff employees were part of a retirement savings...
Draft resolution proposal to expand the UN Security Council, United Nations General Assembly, July 11, 2005 . Read the full text...
US District Judge T.S. Ellis Monday denied a motion by US-based security firm Custer Battles to invoke the False Claims Act to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two former employees alleging that the Rhode Island security...
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has announced a criminal investigation of former UN Oil-for-Food chief Benon Sevan . According to a New York Sun report, Sevan is being investigated in connection with allegations of commercial bribery...
