Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, Northwest Airlines continued service today, the second full business day of strikes by their mechanics' union. In what some are seeing as a serious blow to organized labor , the airline completed 98% of its scheduled flights, though many have been delayed. Northwest's other unions have not showed [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether investors paid researchers to reveal information about ongoing drug studies in order to profit from the results before they were available to the public. Earlier this month, The Seattle Times said it found 26 cases in which medical researchers "leaked confidential and critical details" to brokerage [...]

New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte has determined that there is "an insufficient basis for appeal" against the recent dismissal of trespassing charges against two illegal immigrants brought by state officials. Judge L. Phillips Runyon dismissed the trespassing violations against the immigrants earlier this month and stated that state trespass laws cannot constitutionally be used [...]

Leading Tuesday's states brief, North Carolina lawmakers have selected Democrat June Atkinson as the State Superintendent of Public Schools , resolving the country's last undecided statewide election from 2004. After Atkinson beat Bill Fletcher in the 2004 election, the state Supreme Court ruled that at least 11,000 ballots cast outside of voters' home precincts were [...]

Jailed Russian oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky , announced in a statement Tuesday that he will go on a hunger strike in support of his jailed business partner, Platon Lebedev. Lebedev was placed in an isolation cell after refusing to take his required daily walk. Khodorkovsky believes the Kremlin is attempting to get revenge on him [...]

President Bush urged Sunni Arabs on Tuesday to embrace the proposed Iraqi constitution in an effort to bring peace to a country on the verge of civil war. When asked about a Sunni negotiator's warning that the constitution may lead to a Sunni revolt, Bush replied that "There is more than one Sunni involved in [...]

Negotiations for the return of Saudi Arabian detainees from US custody at Guantanamo Bay have reached "an advanced stage", according to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal speaking at a press conference in Jeddah Tuesday. There are currently 121 Saudis among the 505 detainees remaining at Gitmo. Five Saudi detainees were released earlier this month, [...]

Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel Tuesday called a televised statement by Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez "criminal" and said that Robertson's comments were "terrorist statements." Speaking Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's The 700 Club , Robertson suggested that US agents assassinate Chavez in order [...]

In a meeting Tuesday with his lawyer and the judge investigating charges against him, ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein confirmed that he has reduced his legal team to one lawyer. As previously claimed in a statement by Hussein's family , Hussein said that he will now be represented by Iraqi Khalil Dulaimi, formerly a member [...]

A US Army interrogator pleaded guilty Tuesday to dereliction of duty and assault of 22-year old Afghan detainee Dilawar , who died in December 2002 at Bagram Control Point near Kabul. Spc. Glendale C. Walls admitted to pushing Dilawar during interrogation and watching former Sgt. Selena M. Salcedo and former Spc. Joshua R. Claus abuse [...]