Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co., Supreme Court of the United States, February 22, 2005 for purposes of seeking personal injury compensation under the Jones Act]. Excerpt from the court's opinion by Justice Thomas: At the time that Congress enacted the LHWCA and since, Rev. Stat. §3, now 1 U.S.C. §3, has defined the term "vessel [...]

President Bush has urged European leaders to reconsider plans to end a 15-year-old arms embargo on China, arguing that it could jeopardize US security guarantees for Taiwan. Bush was expected to press the issue during his visit to the EU after the US House almost unanimously approved a resolution earlier this month to urge the [...]

In Tuesday's environmental law news, over 400 food products in the UK have been revealed to be contaminated with the industrial food dye Sudan 1 by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Most of the products are in the process of being recalled. The red dye is a suspected carcinogen banned for human consumption, although a [...]

A report issued Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency urges that nuclear fuel production should not be left under the control of individual countries. An expert panel assigned to consider nonproliferation of nuclear technology found that multilateral control over nuclear fuel technology was the best way to prevent the spread of sensitive technology also [...]

The Egyptian government failed to release the names of an estimated 2,400 people detained in the wake of terror attacks last fall and has since tortured many of the detainees, according to a report issued Tuesday by Human Rights Watch . In the report, HRW alleged that some of the detainees were tortured so badly [...]

AP is reporting that a Pinellas Circuit Court judge in Florida has issued an emergency stay to prevent the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube until late Wednesday afternoon. 3 PM ET – An AP report is now available online.

A federal district judge has ruled that United Airlines employees can proceed with a class action lawsuit against the beleagered airline's employee stock ownership plan and the plan trustees, attorneys for the employees said Tuesday. The suit was filed in 2003, but District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan certified the lawsuit, which includes about 70,000 employees, as [...]

The Second District Court of Appeals in Florida issued a one-page mandate on Tuesday allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube which sustains his brain-damaged wife Terri Schiavo . Terri's parents were seeking an emergency stay to keep their daughter alive in the hopes of filing further legal challenges. The appeals court's mandate on [...]

The Hong Kong government announced on Tuesday that it will begin encouraging couples to have three children, in an effort to reverse the territory's falling birth rate. In a radio interview, Chief Secretary Donald Tsang said the government is considering providing tax incentives to encourage couples to have more children. Currently, Hong Kong has one [...]

The Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday a plan to reduce penalties for executives and companies that admit to using an abusive tax shelter designed to avoid taxes on stock options. IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said that the agency had identified 42 well-known corporations with executives who failed to report more than $700 million in income. [...]