Leading Wednesday's corporation and securities law news, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has suspended controversial corporate governance rules for mutual funds promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The suspension will last until...
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Corporations and securities brief ~ Federal court suspends SEC mutual fund rule
Pledge recital ruling [4th Circuit]
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Federal appeals court upholds Virginia law on Pledge recital
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Cyprus minister says Sevan oil-for-food extradition unlikely
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Inter-American rights court denies US woman’s appeal of Peru terror conviction
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States brief ~ CA Supreme Court to hold off review of gay marriage case
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DHS Secretary says airline passenger privacy concerns overstated
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Judge sets terrorism trial date for Albany mosque leaders
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Serbs object to self-rule plan proposed by Kosovo Albanians
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Pinochet wife and son charged as accomplices in tax fraud
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Myers v. Loundoun County Public Schools, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, August 10, 2005 . Excerpt:The district court, applying the...
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld a Virginia law requiring daily recital of the Pledge of Allegiance in Virginia public schools. Attorneys for plaintiff Edward Myers had argued that the phrase...
Cyprus Foreign Minister George Iacovou told reporters Wednesday that he is unaware if former UN Oil-for-Food chief Benon Sevan is in the country, but if he is, any extradition request from abroad will likely be...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has denied an appeal request to reinterpret its November 2004 ruling that upheld the conviction of an American tried in Peru on charges she collaborated with the terrorist group...
Leading Wednesday's states brief, the California Supreme Court held today without comment that it will not immediately review a March ruling that declared the state ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. In that ruling, Superior Court...
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that privacy concerns over the new Secure Flight passenger screening program are overstated. Speaking Tuesday with USA Today editors, he observed:The average American gives information...
A federal judge set a trial date for early next year in the case of two Albany men accused of money laundering and supporting terrorism. Yassin Aref, 35, is imam at the Masjid as-Salam mosque in Albany...
The Serb minority in Kosovo Wednesday objected to a self-rule plan proposed by the province's Albanian leaders, asking for more concessions. The Serbs are demanding decentralized power and bigger self-governing areas in what is now a UN...
The wife and son of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet were charged Wednesday as accomplices in a tax fraud case related to accusations that Pinochet hid millions of dollars in overseas accounts, including some in...
