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President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador declared a state of emergency in the capital Quito late Friday and dissolved the Ecuador Supreme Court . The drastic measures announced in a surprise national television address came...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Pfizer Inc. announced the suspension of its sales of arthritis drug Bextra . The move came after US and European drug regultors told the world's largest drug maker that...

The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2004, Amnesty International, April 5, 2005 [reporting that the number of executions, which does not include executions that many governments fail to officially report, is the second highest figure the organization has recorded in...

At least 3,797 people were executed in 2004 and at least 7,395 people in 64 countries were sentenced to death last year, according to the annual report on the use of capital punishment released by Amnesty International ...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Fannie Mae regulator the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) , has announced it is investigating Fannie's use of trusts which it set up to sell securities. Specifically,...

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, American International Group Inc. (AIG) announced it will delay its SEC filing of its quarterly results and also that it had found documentation of illegal transactions with General Re Corp,...

In Tuesday's international brief, the upper house of the Kyrgyzstan pre-election parliament has agreed to dissolve itself in order to allow government officials and OSCE experts a chance to resolve the nation's current constitutional crisis before...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in MGM Studios v. Grokster , 04-480, a case questioning when technology providers can be held secondarily liable for copyright infringement. During the one-hour hearing,...

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear Brown v . Sanders (docket 04-980), in which it will rule on the application of the "harmless error" doctrine to death penalty cases. The case concerns California's death penalty law, Cal....

Sunday and Monday saw more arrests of protestors by authorities in Nepal at planned protests against King Gyanendra's assumption of power on February 1 . Nepal's Kantipur Online is reporting that 24 Nepali Congress...