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,...
The US State Department Monday released its third annual report on American efforts to support and promote human rights around the world. In Supporting Human Rights: The US Record 2004-2005 , the US said it will make respect for...
Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the SEC has subpoenaed twelve executives at American International Group Inc. (AIG) . The subpoenas relate to several probes into questionable transactions...
AP is reporting that a Florida state judge has ruled that Governor Jeb Bush and Florida's social services agency do not have any legal grounds for taking protective custody of Terri Schiavo .2:56 PM ET...
Chile's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet cannot be prosecuted over the killing of his predecessor as Chile's army chief, General Carlos Prats . The ruling reverses a...
Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Adelphia Communications Corp. is reportedly close to settling claims made by the US Department of Justice and the SEC related to the massive accounting and management scandal at...
A United Nations report on peacekeeper sex abuse released Thursday has described its military arm as deeply flawed. The report, authored by Prince Zeid al Hussein, Jordan's UN ambassador, was issued as a response to repeated allegations of sexual...
Former Macedonian interior minister Ljube Boskovski surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague Thursday after being charged with war crimes committed against ethnic Albanians. Boskovski, who had been in prison...
The United Nations has admitted it erred Tuesday when it said the reason it would pay the legal fees of the Iraq oil-for-food program chief Benon Sevan was because of...
A trial court judge in Ohio ruled Wednesday that the state's new constitutional amendment banning gay marriage prevents domestic violence charges from being filed against unmarried people. Ohio's domestic violence law was not limited to married people. The...