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The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin et al. v. The Dow Chemical Company et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge Jack B. Weinstien, March 10, 2005 [dismissing a lawsuit filed on...

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,...

In Thursday's environmental law news, the EPA has filed a complaint against Puerto Rican agriculture company Martex Farms for violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) . The complaint lists 338 counts of violations...

The Vietnamese government has announced plans to release 8,000 prisoners, including religious activists and political dissidents, as part of its annual amnesty accompanying Tet, the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 9. The government releases a number of...

JURIST Contibuting Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the Bush administration's appointment of minority candidates to high-profile positions has made them the complicit and even enthisiastic instruments of political and legal policies as harmful as...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that the massive US assault on Fallujah is but the latest instance of illegal American aggression in Iraq, undertaken with disregard for international treaties and...

The U.S. Supreme Court's intervention in the disputed presidential election was virtually inevitable, despite wishful predictions by Democrats that the Court would not meddle with state election law. As countless commentators have pointed out, the electoral impasse provides yet another...