UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Wednesday that foreign terror suspects currently being detained in British prisons will be set free and will either be deported or will be subject to "control orders." At one end of...
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UK terror detainees to be freed subject to "control orders"
Chile high court imposes deadline for Pinochet rights trials
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Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Wednesday, Jan. 26
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Environmental brief ~ New USDA head to address BSE-related cattle trade concerns
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Trials under way in two high-profile corporate fraud cases
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Trials in Tyco, HealthSouth corporate fraud scandals get under way
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Jury selection concludes in former WorldCom CEO Ebbers’ trial
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Human rights groups up anti-Gonzales campaign
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Corporations & securities brief ~ SEC reconsiders Sarbanes-Oxley impact on foreign corporations
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Afghan parliamentary elections face possible delay due to census troubles
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Chile's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that judges investigating charges of murder, torture and kidnappings under former dictator Augusto Pinochet's rule should file charges within six months or close their investigations. 365 human rights cases stemming from Pinochet's...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, Jan. 26.On Capitol Hill, the US Senate will open its daily session at 9:30 AM ET. The Senate is expected to...
In Tuesday's environmental law news, newly appointed US Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced at a news conference yesterday that his "top priority" will be working with Japan to resume trade in US beef....
Trials in two high-profile corporate fraud cases are under way, with the trial of former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy beginning Tuesday and jury selection in the retrial of former Tyco Inc. [official website; JURIST Hot...
Trials in two high-profile corporate fraud cases are under way, with the trial of former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy beginning Tuesday and jury selection in the retrial of former Tyco Inc. ...
Jury selection in the trial of former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers was completed Tuesday, and opening statements began this afternoon. Ebbers faces charges of fraud, conspiracy and filing false regulatory reports in the $11 billion fraud scandal that forced...
High-profile New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch has broken from its practice of not directly endorsing or opposing Cabinet nomineees to issue a formal statement opposing the nomination of White House counsel Alberto Gonzales ...
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, SEC Chairman William Donaldson stated in a speech today that the agency is considering changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to ease burden on foreign companies. Companies in both...
The first parliamentary elections in Afghanistan under the newly established government of Hamid Karzai may be forced to be delayed due to slow progress on a census of the population. Already delayed once from this fall, the...
