Sunni Arab negotiators met with Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani Saturday and presented him with a counter-proposal to the Iraqi draft constitution . A meeting with the US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad was also planned for...

Declaration of a state of emergency in the state of Louisiana, Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005, Governor Kathleen Blanco, August 26, 2005 . Excerpt:SECTION 1: Pursuant to...

ACLU and unnamed library v. Gonzales, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, August 25, 2005 [complaint challenging the government's use of an administrative subpoena known as a National Security Letter, which allows the FBI access to library...

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, US Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff has granted United Airlines an extension to file its final bankruptcy plan. The plan, which was due in September, will now be due...

AP is reporting that as the deadline on Thursday's one-day extension for an Iraqi constitutional accord expires early Saturday morning local time in Baghdad a Sunni Arab negotiator has said no agreement has been reached with Shiites and Kurds...

A British High Court judge has warned that forcible returns of failed asylum seekers to Iraq could be unlawful. While not blocking removals during the urgent judicial review application brought by a Kurdish Iraqi, Justice Lawrence Collins said it...

US District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania John R. Padova ruled Friday that the US Department of Defense does not have the authority to dissolve a Pennsylvania National Guard division without approval of Governor Ed...

Sexual Harassment & Violence at the Military Service Academies Report, United States Department of Defense, August 25, 2005 [report announcing that despite some progress, hostile attitudes and inappropriate treatment of women persist at the US Military Academy at West Point...

Syria is ready to assist the UN investigation into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , a Syrian foreign ministry official told AFP Friday. Lebanese news reports said that German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis [JURIST...

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani announced Friday that Iran is not concerned about possible UN Security Council action on its continued uranium enrichment activities but said that the nation planned to present new ideas...