The French National Assembly voted Wednesday in favor of a proposal that will allow private sector employees to work up to 48 hours a week, despite last weekend's demonstration by 300,000 French workers in protest...
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French National Assembly votes for longer work week
Environmental brief ~ US to delay lifting of Canada beef ban
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Swedish court orders government to release names of tsunami victims
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Senate rejects exception to class action bill for state AGs
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Trials of Saddam aides to begin "in weeks"
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Election commissioners praise provisional ballots in House hearing
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Corporations and securities brief ~ Bank of America settles market timing charges with SEC
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Environment becomes sticking point in OAS indigenous rights declaration
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FCC, Congress move to speed evaluation of indecency complaints
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Yukos owner sues Russia over sale of production arm
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In Wednesday's environmental law news, USDA Secretary Mike Johanns has announced that he is delaying the effective date for the lifting of the ban on beef and cattle imports from Canada. The ban was scheduled to...
Swedish media published Wednesday the names of over 500 Swedes missing or killed in the tsunami disaster after the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the release...
The US Senate voted 60-39 Wednesday to table an amendment to the draft Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 . The bill calls for the shifting of most class action lawsuits to federal courts and...
The Iraqi Special Tribunal will begin holding trials of some of the top lieutenants of Saddam Hussein's regime "in weeks," according to a Western legal expert involved in the process speaking in Baghdad on Wednesday. Iraqi judges...
Commissioners from the federal Election Assistance Commission told the US House Committee on House Administration Wednesday that the use of provisional ballots in the 2004 election allowed...
Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has announced that three Bank of America Corp. brokerage units have agreed to pay $375 million to settle market timing charges. The SEC charged the three units with...
Negotiations continued in Washington Wednesday on a draft Inter-American Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples , an initiative of the Organization of American States . Progress towards completion of the declaration, the first...
The Federal Communications Commission has said that it is overhauling the system it uses to process complaints about indecency on the public airwaves . The FCC has hired additional staff to review complaints and is revising...
Menatep , the majority shareholder of Russian oil company Yukos , has sued the Russian government for over $28 billion, saying the government's sale of Yukos' production arm Yugansk was illegal. The...
