Federated Investors has agreed to pay $100 million to settle allegations of improper trading . The investment firm was accused of allowing $1.6 billion in rapid trades by the hedge fund Canary Capital...

Provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005, Parliament of Australia, Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, November 28, 2005 [report on pending Australian anti-terrorism legislation calling for the removal of the sedition section of the laws and seeking to shorten...

A three-judge panel of the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld a lower court decision striking down a Missouri law restricting late-term abortions. The Infant Protection Act was passed in July 2004...

Leading Monday's environmental law news, the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 11) began today with the first session of the meeting of the Parties...

Armenian electoral officials report that nearly 64 percent of registered voters in the former Soviet republic turned out Sunday to give overwhelming support to a referendum to change the country's constitution and impose stricter separation of powers...

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court announced Monday that the Hague-based court expects its first round of trials to start as early as mid-2006. In connection with this week's meeting of states...

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Will v. Hallock where it will decide whether a plaintiff who sued the federal government for an alleged...

Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) pleaded guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion and promptly resigned from office. Cunningham admitted to taking $2.4 million in bribes in a...

A group of Egyptian jurists known as The Judges Club said in a statement Monday that, due to over 100 irregularities reported by monitoring judges at polling stations, it did not endorse the results of the parliamentary runoff elections....

Afghanistan's government said Monday that it believed the US military's punishment for four American soldiers who burned the bodies of two Taliban rebels was "very lenient." The US military said Saturday that the soldiers, who...