Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision against Canadian Research in Motion Ltd. , the company that produces the popular BlackBerry e-mail pagers. The US Court...

US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signed into law by President Bush on August 2, 2005 [law ending tariffs against US products in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Honduras, and ensuring those countries duty-free access...

New US UN ambassador John Bolton met with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Tuesday to present his credentials and deliver his letter of appointment by President Bush . Bolton is known for his blunt style, his entrenched...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales marked the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Tuesday by saying that the Bush administration is working to extend parts of the act...

President Bush Tuesday signed the US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) into law, making it the first official trade pact between the US and Central America. CAFTA will end tariffs against US products in...

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Tuesday agreed to a $2.4 billion settlement over a class-action lawsuit with investors in collapsed energy giant Enron Corp. The settlement is the largest yet, beating the $2.2 billion settlement with...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, Alabama Governor Bob Riley signed legislation today that creates a mandatory sentence of at least 20 years to life for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 12 and younger, and...

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga asked Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide when the next presidential election should be, in an effort to counter increasingly strong opposition calls for a vote this year....

Hassan Moghaddas, an Iranian judge who tried a highly-publicized case involving dissident journalist Akbar Ganji , was killed in Tehran on Tuesday by a gunman on a motorcycle. Moghaddas was shot and killed in his car...

After at least 36 people were killed in riots Monday, violence continued in Khartoum, Sudan on Tuesday in response to the death of former rebel leader John Garang [Wikipedia profile, who helped broker a peace deal and...