New Orleans police are preparing to carry out Mayor Ray Nagin's forced removal order Friday as the last voluntary evacuees left the city Thursday. Earlier this week, Nagin authorized the forced removal of anyone not...
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The UN has announced Thursday that 63 nations have agreed to sign a new treaty against nuclear terrorism. The International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism requires governments to punish those who...
In its latest bi-monthly report on human rights in Iraq the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Thursday detailed widespread and lengthy detentions of suspected Sunni insurgents, systematic use of torture during interrogations at police...
Lawyers representing stockholders of Walt Disney Co. are appealing a decision that held that Disney board members did not violate their fiduciary duties or waste company resources when they hired and fired former...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Thursday questioned the US administration's approach to detentions at Guantanamo Bay , where almost all detainees have been categorized by Combatant Status Review Tribunals as...
The Egyptian Presidential Election Commission late Thursday rejected a request by leading opposition candidate Ayman Nour to rerun Wednesday's presidential elections after reports of widespread fraud and procedural violations . An early...
US v. National Associatioon of Realtors, US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Esatern Division, September 67, 2005 ....
State of New Jersey v. John O'Hagen, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appeals Division, September 7, 2005 . Excerpt:The minimal intrusion...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Thursday night postponed the demolition of synagogues in the evacuated Gaza Strip despite an Israeli High Court decision earlier Thursday to permit the destruction of synagogues that could...
Emergency Suspension of Prescription, Peremption and Other Legal Deadlines, Executive Order KBB 2005-32, Governor Kathleen Blanco, September 6, 2005. Excerpt:All deadlines in legal proceedings, including liberative prescriptive and peremptive periods in all courts, administrative agencies, and boards are hereby suspended...
