Former NatWest bankers David Bermingham, Giles Darby and Gary Mulgrew, pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of seven counts of wire fraud for an allegedly fraudulent sale of Enron stock. The bankers were extradited...
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UK Enron bankers plead not guilty to fraud charges
UN rights expert urges Egypt president to send judicial reforms bill back to parliament
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China bans international use of corpses in effort to end illegal organ trade
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Tennessee marriage amendment ruling [TN SC]
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Nebraska same-sex marriage ban ruling [Eighth Circuit]
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UN leaders condemn illegal targeting of civilians in escalating Middle East conflict
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Tennessee high court rejects ACLU challenge to marriage amendment
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Ukraine president rejects new coalition government, PM nominee as illegal
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Ten Serbs charged with hiding war crimes suspect Mladic: report
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Senate leader expects Voting Rights Act renewal passage
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Leandro Despouy, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights' Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, on Friday expressed "serious concern" over a recently passed Egyptian judicial reforms bill . Despouy said:Concerning the text of the...
The Chinese Ministry of Health has approved new regulations governing the use and international transport of corpses in an attempt to crackdown on the illegal trade of organs. China has been criticized [BTS press release,...
American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee et al. v. Riley C. Darnell et al., Supreme Court of Tennessee, July 14, 2006 [dismissing for lack of standing a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union to a proposed constitutional amendment...
Citizens for Equal Protection et al. v. Bruning et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, July 14, 2006 [restoring a ban on same-sex marriage approved by Nebraska voters in 2000 as a state constitutional amendment but...
Top UN officials Friday condemned Israel, the Palestinians and Lebanese Hezbollah militants for intentionally inflicting civilian casualties on one another contrary to international humanitarian law as violence continued to escalate in the Middle East, with Israel stepping...
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to a proposed constitutional amendment that would define marriage as only between a...
A legal advisor to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday that the plan of Yushchenko's political rival and former Ukrainian prime minister Viktor Yanukovych , to directly nominate a candidate to serve as...
Belgrade prosecutors filed criminal charges against ten Serbs on Friday, accusing them of hiding indicted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic from authorities, according to Belgrade radio station B92 . The charges say...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) told reporters Friday that he anticipates easy passage of a bill renewing expiring sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) when it...
