The aerospace division of Honeywell International has agreed to pay $5 million in fines and $1 million for a cleanup project for environmental violations at its Phoenix, Arizona facility, according to a Thursday release from Arizona officials. In the lawsuit , the state had alleged that the Honeywell had committed 38 infractions of state environmental laws , [...]

L. Ali Khan : "Pakistan's ruling coalition has finally gathered the courage to impeach Pervez Musharraf who assumed and retained power as the Army Chief for over eight years in violation of the constitution. Musharraf's hold on power collapsed when he took off his military uniform and his political cronies lost the 2008 general elections. [...]

An Indian Supreme Court judge on Friday withdrew from hearing a judicial bribery case after lawyers accused the court of protecting corrupt judges. Justice B.N. Agrawal said that he refused to consider unsubstantiated accusations against the court, adding that the behavior of the accusers, former Union Law Minister Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant Bhushan [...]

Danilo Reyes : "There was no final peace agreement signed yet. What the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have agreed so far was the draft of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD). The draft agreement, which would be the basis for the resumption of formal peace [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a so-called "sore loser" election law in South Carolina. Under the law, a candidate that seeks a nomination from multiple parties will be banned from appearing on the ballot if any one of those parties rejects his candidacy. The ACLU is representing Eugene [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a claim brought by the mother of a special education student that her child's Fourth and Fourteenth amendment rights were violated when he was given "timeouts." Jennifer Couture sued the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and three individual school officials for placing her child, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday affirmed the dismissal of a shareholder securities suit against Biogen Idec , in which the class of plaintiffs accused directors of violating the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by intentionally misrepresenting the safety of its multiple-sclerosis drug, Tysabri , in order to sell their [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled  Thursday that in a mixed-motive employment discrimination case, the plaintiff must show he or she objectively met minimum requirements for the job. The issue had not been addressed by other circuits, and came before the court in a lawsuit by former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) [...]

Guantanamo Bay detainee Djamel Ameziane Wednesday filed a complaint against the US with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) , alleging that he had been tortured, given inadequate medical treatment, and denied other basic rights. The complaint was filed on Ameziane's behalf by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Justice and [...]

Convicted murderer Heliberto Chi on Thursday became the second foreign national to be put to death in Texas since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the US to stay such executions. The US Supreme Court refused to grant either a stay or certiorari just hours before the Honduran man was executed at 6 pm [...]