US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) Wednesday introduced legislation that would give Congress the power to bring lawsuits in federal court to challenge presidential bill signing statements the...
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Specter introduces bill allowing Congress to challenge presidential signing statements
House, Senate pass bills limiting authority of US foreign investment committee
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Eminent domain ruling [OH SC]
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Washington same-sex marriage ban ruling [WA SC]
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Mexico presidential challenger files criminal complaint against election commission
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Federal judge deals second blow to KPMG prosecution
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China introduces regulations governing abuse of power prosecutions
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Yates found not guilty by reason of insanity in Texas drowning case
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SEC chairman says Congress may need to reinforce hedge fund regulation
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Australia Attorney-General calls for banning books that incite terrorism
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Both houses of the US Congress passed bills Wednesday that impose investigation guidelines on the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) , the panel that approved a Dubai-owned company to manage...
Norwood v. Horney, Ohio Supreme Court, July 26, 2006 . Read the full text of the...
Anderson v. King County, Washington Supreme Court, July 26, 2006 . Excerpt: The two cases before us require us to decide whether the legislature has the power to...
Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador filed a criminal complaint against the Federal Electoral Institute Tuesday, alleging that it should have blocked campaign ads funded by private companies that he alleges broke election...
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that statements made by two partners at accountancy firm KPMG cannot be used in their upcoming trial because federal prosecutors coerced the two defendants into cooperating with...
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) , the country's highest criminal prosecution body, has issued new regulations outlining 42 offenses constituting abuses of authority in a bid to prevent torture of criminal suspects and other...
A Texas jury Wednesday found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity of drowning her five children in 2001. Yates will now be committed to a Texas mental hospital and will undergo periodic hearings to determine...
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox suggested that Congress may need to permit increased SEC oversight over hedge funds to protect retail investors and prevent fraud, during a hearing held by...
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock Wednesday called on Australian states to ban books inciting terrorism in the wake of a recent Australian Classification Review Board (CRB) decision to ban two Islamic books that allegedly incited terror...
