The US Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday postponed consideration of the Indian Trust Reform Act , legislation that would settle a decade-old class-action lawsuit brought by Native...
A California jury on Wednesday found Merck not liable for causing the heart attack of 71-year old Stewart Grossberg, determining Merck's painkiller Vioxx did not cause...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed before a Senate panel Wednesday that the Bush administration is drafting legislation authorizing military commissions for terror detainees that will allow hearsay evidence and coerced testimony...
Lebanese Justice Minister Charles Rizk told Lebanese media Wednesday that Lebanon plans to send UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan a report outlining alleged war crimes committed by Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah that...
US v. James A. Brown et al., US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, August 1, 2006 . Read...
A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to consider refund petitions filed by California state agencies and California businesses that claim refunds arising from the California energy crisis of 2000-2001 ...
PC hardware manufacturer Rambus unlawfully monopolized four markets for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) computer chips and deliberately withheld information about forthcoming patents on the technology from a technology-standards-setting group, according to an opinion released...
Two Hamas officials - the Palestinian Minister for Prisoners' Affairs and a deputy speaker in the Palestinian Legislative Council - who were released from Israeli custody this week told reporters Wednesday that they had been...
The European Union has rejected a call by Polish President Lech Kaczynski to review the EU ban on capital punishment , European Commission spokesman Steffan de Rynck said Wednesday. Kaczynski urged...
Attorneys for a US soldier under investigation for civilian killings in Iraq filed a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit Wednesday against Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) in a Washington DC federal court. The suit alleges...