Nonprofit organizations exempted from federal income taxes due to their charitable purpose are becoming top offenders for tax abuse and evasion, Internal Revenue Commissioner Mark W. Everson warned the Senate Finance Committee in a letter....
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A panel of Arab intellectuals concluded no major steps have been taken toward democracy in the Middle East in the 2004 Arab Human Development Report released Tuesday. The long-awaited report sponsored by the UN Development Program called...
The International Committee of the Red Cross has urged the US to investigate a riot that broke out Friday at the Camp Bucca prison camp in southern Iraq. Twelve Iraqi prisoners and four US guards...
Members of Kyrgyzstan's parliament on Tuesday fell two short of the 50-person quorum needed to accept the resignation of exiled President Askar Akayev . The failure to vote extended a two-week-old political crisis that saw mass...
Ahead of key Senate Judiciary Committee hearings Tuesday on whether Congress should extend the USA PATRIOT Act , the Justice Department has released new data suggesting that some of the extraordinary powers...
Pursuant to a Security Council resolution passed Thursday, the International Criminal Court has received several boxes of evidence on alleged war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region collected by the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur [Commission report,...
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 ...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, April 5.The US Senate convenes at 9:45 AM ET today. Watch a live webcast of the session. The Senate Judiciary Committee...
Knight v. Superior Court of Sacramento County, Court of Appeal of the State of California, Third Appellate District, April 5, 2005 [rejecting the contention that California's domestic partnership law violates the state Defense of Marriage Act passed by voters in...
Johnson v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, April 4, 2005 [ruling that where a prisoner challenges a federal sentence on the grounds that a state conviction used to enhance it was vacated, the one-year filing deadline for...
