US Bankruptcy Judge Letitia Clark ruled Thursday that she will not reinstate Russian oil company Yukos' bankruptcy filing, which she dismissed last week for lack of jurisdiction in the United States. Late last...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC announced Putnam Investments has been ordered to pay an additional $43 million in fines as part of its punishment for an improper trading scandal. The announcement...

Halliburton has disclosed in annual 10-K SEC filings that former employees may have engaged in bid rigging on foreign construction projects. Former company consultant and chairman of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root , Jack Stanley...

The Canadian government said Thursday it could not appeal Wednesday's decision by a US federal judge in Montana to delay the re-opening of the American market to young Canadian cattle. Canadian cattle imports were stopped last year after a...

Rasim Delic , the former commander of Bosnia's Muslim army during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, pleaded not guilty Thursday in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague on charges...

Lawyers for former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien filed a motion in Canada's Federal Court Thursday to remove Justice John Gomery from the chairmanship of a judicial commission of inquiry [Gomery...

In Thursday's international brief, two US Senators have called for the UN Security Council to impose heavy sanctions on the Sudanese government for forcing the genocide of thousands in Darfur to end. Senators Sam Brownback...

Bank of America Corp. said Thursday that it will pay $460.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits brought against it by former shareholders of WorldCom. In a statement released by the company today, Bank of America denies any wrongdoing and...

Job Training Improvement Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives March 2, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported in...

China's State Council Thursday responded to US State Department human rights reports issued Monday that had blasted China for human rights abuses by issuing a report of its own on US human rights practices highlighting abuses...