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Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, Feb. 18.On Capitol Hill, the US Senate convenes at 10 AM ET for the reading of President George Washington's farewell address...

The Iraqi prisoner who died while in US custody at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and whose corpse was shown in photographs that emerged from the abuse scandal died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging"...

Amnesty International said Thursday that the recent imposition of emergency rule in Nepal by King Gyanendra has taken the country to the "brink of disaster" and that the human rights crisis in the country could...

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday that the European Union should recognize that the US will never accept the International Criminal Court and should seek a practical solution to the problem....

British Army Corporal Daniel Kenyon denied all allegations of his involvement in the abuse and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners during testimony at a court martial at a British military base in Germany Friday. Overwhelmed with emotion, Kenyon told...

Qualls, et al. v. Rumsfeld, et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Royce C. Lambert, February 7, 2005 [refusing to issue a preliminary injunction directing the immediate release from duty of a "stop loss" soldier...

Citing the potential for substantial disruption and diversion of military resources, US District Judge Royce C. Lambert refused Monday to issue a injuntion requiring immediate release from service of a US soldier whose active duty period had...

In Monday's international brief, Spain has began an amnesty program that will allow a large portion of its illegal immigrant population to apply for legal resident status. The new legislation, promulgated by the ruling Socialist party, requires...

Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law School:"One of the commonest objections to President Bush's proposal for reform of social security is that there is no need to act now because there is no "crisis." Yet the same people who say...

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, Washington state utility Snohomish Public Utility District has released audiotapes which reveal Enron's plan to take a power plant off-line in 2001 to create higher...