The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina began hearing its first genocide case Tuesday with the opening of the trial of 11 Bosnian Serbs charged for their role in...
Less than two months after New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched a $250 million lawsuit against H&R Block for fraudulently coaxing its customers into a retirement account plan that lost...
An increasing number of small businesses are going private in order to avoid disproportionately higher costs of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) ....
Estonia on Tuesday became the fifteenth nation to ratify the European Constitution . The ratification is expected to have little effect on the charter after rejections of the document by France and the Netherlands...
An FBI investigation into the activities of former CIA Executive Director and number-three agency official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo has intensified after Foggo's resignation Monday. The FBI probe is looking into whether Foggo took steps to improperly aid...
A spokesman for Thailand's Supreme Court said Tuesday that when new parliamentary elections are held, the country's highest courts will take a leading role in guaranteeing free and open elections. The announcement comes one day after the Constitutional Court...
Leading Tuesday's international brief, US President George W. Bush has announced that the United States will be asking the UN Security Council to accelerate Sudan's acceptance of UN troops to supplement the...
In the wake of the US government's decision to transfer five Chinese Uighur men from Guantanamo Bay to Albania, the Chinese government on Tuesday denounced the move as a violation of international law...
In a reversal of judgment, the American Bar Association on Monday lowered its rating of White House aide and nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Brett Kavanaugh from "well...
JURIST has won the Webby People's Voice Award as the best Law website of 2006. Called the "online Oscars" by TIME magazine and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences...