JPMorgan Chase agreed Tuesday to settle with investors by paying $2.2 billion to cover claims that shareholders were misled about Enron Corportation revenue because JPMorgan hid the company's debt. The announcement follows Citigroup's decision to settle [JURIST...

Sgt. Kevin Benderman , a US Army soldier from Georgia who faces charges because he refused orders to redeploy to Iraq in January, will also be court-martialed for accepting $2,922 in bonuses and tax breaks typically...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a statement Tuesday that 5,000 Rwandan refugees who fled to the Songore camp in Burundi to escape the 1994 genocide had been involuntarily returned to Rwanda on Sunday and Monday....

The opening of the Sudanese domestic tribunal created to try 160 alleged Darfur war criminals that was originally set for Tuesday has now been delayed until Wednesday, according to court chairman Mahmud Saeed...

Leading Tuesday’s corporations and securities law news, the SEC announced today that it had reached an agreement with Ford Motor Credit Company over illegal marketing of the “Ford Money Market Account.” The agreement includes $700,000...

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference Tuesday that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay were well-treated and...

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced Tuesday that his administration is planning to draft a bill which would effectively disband the right-wing paramilitary fighters supported by umbrella group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) ....

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard arguments today in a case concerning the visitation rights of grandparents. Since the 2002 US Supreme Court decsion in Troxel v. Granville Ohio courts have issued conflicting...

A New Jersey appellate court Tuesday ruled against seven same-sex couples who had argued that they were entitled to marry under the state constitution . The court ruling upheld a lower court decision that had concluded that...

Financial filings released Tuesday show that Bill and Hillary Clinton have finally paid off the legal bills incurred during Whitewater and the impeachment scandal. Lucrative book contracts and numerous speaking arrangements helped settle their debt, the...