The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Tuesday in several cases, including a review of how states use tax incentives to attract companies that will create jobs in their regions. In DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, the Court will...
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Two-thirds of the $1 billion distributed to US companies from 2001 to 2004 under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA) , otherwise known as the Byrd Amendment, went to only three industries - ball bearings, candles and...
Television and newspaper reports of widespread crime and violence in the days following Hurricane Katrina are proving to be largely unsupported or exaggerated, according to recent reports by journalists and officials. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported...
Leading Tuesday's international brief, China's Supreme Peoples' Court regained the power to review death sentences on Tuesday, after nearly six months of intense criticism of the old process, which allowed regional courts to review death sentences. Chinese...
A woman who was ordered by a British court to destroy frozen embryos produced with her former partner is taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights Tuesday, claiming the refusal to allow her to...
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif told newly-appointed US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes Monday that his government plans to lift the state of emergency that has been in place in the country...
New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey filed lawsuits Monday against Hess , Shell , and Sunoco , alleging that the oil and gas giants and several independent gas-station owners...
Australian state and territory leaders Tuesday agreed to strict new anti-terror measures proposed by the federal government of Prime Minister John Howard which include detaining terror suspects for up to 48 hours without charge...
US District Judge Jed. S. Rakoff Monday denied government claims that he was interfering with the president's constitutional authority to wage war when he ordered that Guantanamo Bay detainees be asked if they...
A New York court Monday commenced proceedings in the civil trial arising out of the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center . The court will need to determine whether the Port Authority of New York and...
