Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation filed a complaint against AEFA, the personal finance advisory unit of American Express Co. , for failing to disclose to investors that...

In Friday's international brief, multiple allegations of sexual harassment have arisen against UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers . Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, allegedly harassed five different female employees under his supervision according to an...

What appears to have been a legal oversight has prompted the office of the Prince of Wales at Clarence House to announce that the official wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles has been moved from Windsor Castle...

Ahmad Chalabi , currently lobbying to be Iraq's Prime Minister in the wake of the recent elections which gave his Shiite party grouping a majority of seats in the new National Assembly, has promised to bring former...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved S. 256, the Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Prevention Act of 2005 , a measure that would make it tougher for consumers to erase debt in bankruptcy proceedings, but battle lines...

Documents from US military investigators obtained by the ACLU under Freedom of Information Act provisions and released Friday suggest that US personnel engaged in widespread abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, and that US soldiers attempted to cover up evidence...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, Feb. 18.On Capitol Hill, the US Senate convenes at 10 AM ET for the reading of President George Washington's farewell address...

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005, passed by the US Senate, February 17, 2005 ....

The Iraqi prisoner who died while in US custody at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and whose corpse was shown in photographs that emerged from the abuse scandal died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging"...

Citing a need for additional protections in light of advances in understanding the human genetic code, the Senate on Thursday unanimously approved the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005 aimed at preventing employers and health insurers from...