The US Senate voted 60-39 Wednesday to table an amendment to the draft Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 . The bill calls for the shifting of most class action lawsuits to federal courts and...
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The Iraqi Special Tribunal will begin holding trials of some of the top lieutenants of Saddam Hussein's regime "in weeks," according to a Western legal expert involved in the process speaking in Baghdad on Wednesday. Iraqi judges...
Commissioners from the federal Election Assistance Commission told the US House Committee on House Administration Wednesday that the use of provisional ballots in the 2004 election allowed...
Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has announced that three Bank of America Corp. brokerage units have agreed to pay $375 million to settle market timing charges. The SEC charged the three units with...
Negotiations continued in Washington Wednesday on a draft Inter-American Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples , an initiative of the Organization of American States . Progress towards completion of the declaration, the first...
The Federal Communications Commission has said that it is overhauling the system it uses to process complaints about indecency on the public airwaves . The FCC has hired additional staff to review complaints and is revising...
Menatep , the majority shareholder of Russian oil company Yukos , has sued the Russian government for over $28 billion, saying the government's sale of Yukos' production arm Yugansk was illegal. The...
In person on national television Wednesday UK Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized to members of the Conlon and Maguire families who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced for the 1974 IRA bombings of British pubs in Guildford [BBC...
The US Army announced Tuesday that Corporal Dustin Berg, a soldier in the Indiana National Guard awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in Iraq, has been charged in the murder of an Iraqi civilian....
A federal immigration judge Tuesday ordered the deportation from the United States of a Palestinian fund raiser for an Islamic charity alleged to have supported Hamas. Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan, who was found to have been living in the US without...
