The US Federal Election Commission Monday sued pro-Republican political group Club for Growth in US District Court in the District of Columbia to get the group to comply with campaign finance limits after it spent at least $21 million during the 2004 general election campaign. The suit is the first to arise from controversial fundraising [...]

Pfc. Lynndie England goes before a military court again in Fort Hood Texas Tuesday planning to fight seven charges of abusing prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison . Her first trial last May ended prematurely after the presiding judge threw out her guilty plea , saying that statements by England about her understanding of the [...]

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to improve its oversight of the mutual funds industry. The report found that though the SEC commits substantial resources to regulating mutual funds, it does not effectively monitor the individual funds. [...]

Leading Monday's states brief, the Rhode Island Supreme Court issued an advisory opinion today saying that a proposal to build a gambling casino in West Warwick does not meet the state constitutional requirement that all lotteries be state run. Supporters of the casino, proposed by the Narragansett Indian tribe and the Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment, [...]

A Canadian judge has ruled that advertising executive Paul Coffin will not serve jail time for his part in the federal sponsorship scandal . Coffin was given a conditional sentence of two years to be served in the community, and must obey a 9 PM curfew, the Canadian equivalent of provisional house arrest. In May, [...]

Dutch prosecutors Monday began to present their case against two former leaders of the Afghanistan secret police, charging Hesamuddin Hesam and Habibullah Jalalzoy with a litany of war crimes. Both men were officers in the Khad , a group established and monitored by the KGB when the nation was under the control of a Soviet-backed [...]

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention reported Monday that pre-trial detention conditions in South Africa "fall short of international guarantees." The report comes after a two-week trip in which group members interviewed detainees in several detention centers in the cities of Pretoria, Johannesburg, Polokwane, Musina, Bloemfontein and Cape Town. Among the group's concerns were [...]

Members of the European Parliament are busy trying to correct the problems faced by the now rejected European constitution . A core group of MEPs have been charged with preparing a proposal to address and recommend corrections to the obstacles that lead to the constitution's rejection , and suggest action in the meantime. Current plans [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Christopher Cox , chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission , plans to put into operation a rule that would allow the government to take a stronger role as watchdog over the massive US hedge-fund industry. In his first major interview since being sworn in as chairman [...]

Trials commenced Monday at the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for four former Rwandan officials, including two government ministers suspected of taking part in the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people. Ex-interior minister Edouard Karemera, ex-industry and mines minister Joseph Nzirorera and ex-director general for foreign affairs Mathieu Ngirumpatse were all accused of giving [...]