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Chemical companies that supplied Agent Orange to the US military in Vietnam asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Vietnamese citizens who say they were poisoned by their exposure. Lawyers for the Monsanto,...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Senator Arlen Specter announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will start an investigation into how criminals were able to gain access to at least 145,000 consumer profiles...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe announced Friday that he will be holding elections as required by the original Togolese constitution. Faure had been placed in power by Togo's military and had had the constitution changed to...

New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch said Thursday that new documents it recovered in Iraq after the US-led invasion show that Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for his alleged role in the...

In Thursday's international brief, West African regional organization ECOWAS has refused to recognize Faure Gnassingbe as the legitimate leader of Togo and threatened sanctions against the country unless it returned to its prior...

According to a federal indictment unsealed Monday, W.R. Grace and Co. and seven of its high-ranking officials and managers knew as early as 1976 that a vermiculite mine operated by the company in Montana was...

More than 200 foreign nationals currently being detained in US immigration facilities could be released under a recent Supreme Court ruling according to figures released Monday by Cheryl Little , executive director of the Florida...

Guatemala's Constitutional Court Friday ordered charges dropped against soldiers accused of participating in a 1982 massacre of more than 300 civilians, citing the countrys's National Reconciliation Law . The law is a type of amnesty the...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, prosecutors have announced that former HealthSouth Corp. president and director James P. Bennett has been indicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, money laundering and lying to the FBI...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) , who have been examining the trading schemes Enron employed on Western power consumers, contend that the energy giant should...