Nutraceutical Corp. v. Crawford, United States District Court for the District of Utah Central Division, Judge Campbell, April 13, 2005 ban on the weight-loss supplement ephedra, which was pulled off the market...

Li v. Oregon, et al., Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, Justice Gillette, April 15, 2005 . Excerpt:e conclude as follows. First, since the effective date of Measure 36,...

In response to recent refusals by some pharmacists objecting on moral grounds to filling prescriptions for emergency contraceptives or birth control pills, federal legislators unveiled a draft bill on Thursday that would require pharmacies to fill all prescriptions,...

Fighting off a barrage of opposition to the agreement, French President Jacques Chirac embarked Thursday on a campaign to save the proposed European Union constitution from defeat in an upcoming national referendum. With the anti-treaty...

A provincial appeals court has issued what is reported to be China's first ruling that confessions obtained by coercion, torture, or trickery cannot be used in court, and while defense attorneys hailed the decision as an important step toward...

United States v. Tongsun Park, United States District Court Southern District of New York, unsealed April 14, 2005 [accusing Park of accepting millions of dollars from the Iraqi government while operating in the US as an unregistered agent for Saddam...

United States v. David Chalmers at al., United States District Court Southern District of New York, April 14, 2005 [charging Texas businessman David Chalmers and others with participating in a scheme to pay millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to...

A federal judge in Utah has struck down the Food and Drug Administration ban on the weight-loss supplement ephedra, pulled off the market by the FDA in April 2004 after it was found to be linked...

AP is reporting that the US House has approved the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 by a vote of 302-126 . The legislation, designed to make it harder for those in...

Russian prosecutors filed new murder charges Thursday against former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin . Last month, Pichugin was convicted of organizing a double murder and was sentenced to 20 years in jail...