The British government persisted Thursday in refusing to disclose the full legal advice it received from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on the Iraq war despite disclosure of a previously blanked-out text in the 2003 resignation letter of...
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Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, a US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court's ruling which froze $37.6 million in termination pay and bonuses to two Gemstar TV Guide International ...
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Wall Street Journal is reporting American International Group Inc. (AIG) has fired CFO Howard I. Smith and a vice president Christian M. Milton after the executives indicated they...
A UK government minister said Monday that Camilla Parker Bowles can become queen after Prince Charles ascends to the British throne. Christopher Leslie, minister responsible for the UK Department for Constitutional Affairs answered...
Estonian prime minister Juhan Parts dissolved his government and announced his resignation Monday after parliament voted no-confidence in Justice Minister Ken-Marti Vaher and a controversial new anti-corruption plan. Vaher's plan had called for a system...
US Senator John Cornyn , a senior Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sunday introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that judicial decisions regarding the US Constitution should not be influenced by foreign law....
Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, the European Commission (EC) said Microsoft has failed to deliver on its commitment to comply with sanctions related to violations of European antitrust rules [JURIST Hot Topic news...
The ACLU , Break the Chains , and the Brennan Center for Justice released a report Thursday indicating that America's war on drugs is inflicting deep and disproportionate harm on women, most of them mothers....
Israel's Justice Ministry announced Thursday that Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been indicted for violating the terms of his release from prison. Vanunu completed an 18-year prison sentence in April for revealing...
The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to ban the use of federal money to transfer terror suspects to countries where prisoners can be tortured. The amendment, part of the $81.4 billion emergency spending package for...
