California's Third District Court of Appeal ruled late Friday that Proposition 80 , a ballot initiative that would expand the power of the California Public Utilities Commission , violated the state constitution and struck it from the November ballot. Because Article 12 {text] of the California Constitution gives plenary power to the Legislature to control [...]

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has violated the 1974 Privacy Act by collecting personal information on nearly 250,000 people without their knowledge, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Friday. Congressional investigators said the TSA was testing a program called Secure Flight which checks airline passengers for potential matches on terrorist watch lists [...]

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Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to assess the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina, UN Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe, July 22, 2005 . Excerpt: On 19 May 2005, with little or no warning, the Government of Zimbabwe embarked on an operation to "clean-up" its cities. It was a "crash"operation [...]

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US v. Kaczynski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 21, 2005 . Excerpt: We remand to the district court… to give a timely and adequate opportunity for the government to present… a commercially reasonable plan to dispose of the property at issue, the principal purpose of which shall be to maximize [...]

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Leading Friday's corporations and securities news, airline regulators have approved America West's merger with bankrupt US Airways. In a joint press release, the airlines announced that the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) approved of the merger unanimously. The companies also said that the ATSB voted to allow the airlines to consolidate their combined $1 billion [...]

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