Leading Friday's states brief, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled today that Cedar Rapids does not have the authority to expand its control to include a preserve adjacent to the city because the city's extra-territorial jurisdiction does not...
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Leading Friday's corporations and securities law brief, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has agreed to pay Enron Corp. $250 million. The payment follows a a $2.4 billion settlement with Enron shareholders [JURIST...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected a US government plan that would have allowed vast undeveloped areas of the country's largest national forest to be...
Two technology privacy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to block a proposal that would give the US Department of Justice broad powers to listen-in on cellphone calls and monitor online computer activity by airline passengers....
Ismael Diallo, Chief of the Human Rights Division of the UN Operation in Burundi , has deplored ongoing rights violations in the central African state, indicating that 53 summary executions of civilians were reported in Burundi in July...
Former WorldCom accounting executive Betty Vinson was sentenced Friday to five months in jail with an additional five months under house arrest for her role in the $11 billion fraud at the telecommunications giant that resulted in its bankruptcy....
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday announced a planned summit meeting of Australian state leaders and security advisors next month to mull over ways to reduce Australia's vulnerability to terrorist attacks. Howard is debating whether terror...
The Pentagon has released 32 new or recently uncensored images of the coffins of US soldiers and agreed to quickly fulfill any future Freedom of Information Act requests for images of US war casualties. The release...
Iraqi leaders Friday put off a high-level constitutional meeting for two days while the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly convened in an emergency session and consultations between major players continued. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani had called...
