The Washington Supreme Court official website] ruled 7-2 Thursday that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) must release files documenting sexual abuse allegations compiled over decades for use in an upcoming lawsuit brought by three Washington men claiming abuse by their scoutmaster in the 1970s and 1980s. The files include court records, news reports, documentation [...]

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JURIST Guest Columnist and Lebanese presidential candidate Chibli Mallat, professor of law and holder of the EU Jean Monnet Chair at St. Joseph's University in Beirut, says that the historical narratives of the sides in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict currently manifested in Lebanon stand to be reshaped by a legal order imposed by the UN [...]

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Thursday that it had reached settlements with former WorldCom CFO Scott Sullivan and six others for their roles in fraudulent adjustments and entries in WorldCom's books and records. Mark Abide, former WorldCom director of property accounting, also agreed to pay a total of nearly $130,000 as part [...]

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Attorneys for the US government and for plaintiffs asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Thursday to consolidate more than 20 cases involving telephone companies' roles in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program . The government requested that the cases be consolidated into one civil action in the US District Court for the [...]

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The current Mideast conflict has halted the UN International Independent Investigation Commission probe into the February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , Beirut's Daily Star newspaper reports Friday. A source told the paper that Belgian Serge Brammertz , deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and current head of the Hariri investigation [...]

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