Echoing comments made last week by President Bush , Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Arlen Specter urged Congress Tuesday to put limits on asbestos liability lawsuits. Specter said asbestos lawsuits are causing companies to go...

In Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, Thom Calandra, former chief commentator for CBS MarketWatch , will pay at least $540,000 in penalties to settle fraud charges with the SEC . The charges stem from allegations Calandra...

AP is reporting that voters challenging the presidential election results in the Ohio Supreme Court have asked to drop their lawsuit, saying the issue is now moot after last week's certification of the electoral vote and the upcoming inauguration....

The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Tuesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague with testimony by a French nurse who worked in Croatia during the Bosnian...

Attorneys for Zacarias Moussaoui {JURIST Newsmaker] have filed a petition to the US Supreme Court seeking to overturn a lower court ruling that reinstated the US government's right to seek the death penalty against Moussaoui for his alleged involvement...

Sixty-one members of the European Parliament have presented a plan to eliminate the European Union's current legislative process related to IT patents. The proposed changes reflect the debate over current European law that prohibits...

Three former employees of Medical Manager Health Systems Inc., recently purchased by WebMD , pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud on Tuesday. Federal prosecutors in South Carolina filed charges against the three, including Robert W. Davids, a...

A former US Navy SEAL testifying Monday in the Article 32 military hearing of a fellow SEAL lieutenant said that on two separate occasions he witnessed SEALs and CIA officials abusing Iraqi prisoners,...

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday in a decision written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that a count of conspiracy to commit money laundering does not require proof of an overt act to further the conspiracy. The full...

A former civilian Arabic translator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp pleaded guilty Monday to charges of mishandling classified information and lying to investigators. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, a naturalized US citizen of Egyptian origin, has been...