Swedish media published Wednesday the names of over 500 Swedes missing or killed in the tsunami disaster after the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the release of the names would not cause people any harm. Swedish police had said that that in withholding identities they were trying to protect homes of missing families, but [...]

The US Senate voted 60-39 Wednesday to table an amendment to the draft Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 . The bill calls for the shifting of most class action lawsuits to federal courts and the amendment considered and defeated Wednesday would have created an exception for cases brought by state attorneys general. Ignoring a [...]

The Iraqi Special Tribunal will begin holding trials of some of the top lieutenants of Saddam Hussein's regime "in weeks," according to a Western legal expert involved in the process speaking in Baghdad on Wednesday. Iraqi judges have been holding investigative pre-trial hearings and are reportedly ready to turn over their dossiers to the five-judge [...]

Commissioners from the federal Election Assistance Commission told the US House Committee on House Administration Wednesday that the use of provisional ballots in the 2004 election allowed more people to vote, with 68 percent of the provisional ballots cast on Election Day being counted toward the final vote. The EAC testimony came as part of [...]

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has announced that three Bank of America Corp. brokerage units have agreed to pay $375 million to settle market timing charges. The SEC charged the three units with entering into improper and undisclosed agreements which allowed larger investors to engage in market timing and late trading [...]

Negotiations continued in Washington Wednesday on a draft Inter-American Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples , an initiative of the Organization of American States . Progress towards completion of the declaration, the first to enshrine the economic, social and property rights of the western hemisphere's 40 million indigenous people, has been hindered by disagreements over [...]

The Federal Communications Commission has said that it is overhauling the system it uses to process complaints about indecency on the public airwaves . The FCC has hired additional staff to review complaints and is revising the process it uses to track complaints. Meanwhile, on Wednesday Congress began reviewing a proposed bill that would force [...]

Menatep , the majority shareholder of Russian oil company Yukos , has sued the Russian government for over $28 billion, saying the government's sale of Yukos' production arm Yugansk was illegal. The government seized and sold Yugansk last year in order to offset Yukos' $27 billion back tax bill. Menatep alleges that the government's action [...]

In person on national television Wednesday UK Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized to members of the Conlon and Maguire families who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced for the 1974 IRA bombings of British pubs in Guildford and Woolwich. Eleven individuals from the two families were arrested, tried, and convicted on evidence that was later completely [...]

The US Army announced Tuesday that Corporal Dustin Berg, a soldier in the Indiana National Guard awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in Iraq, has been charged in the murder of an Iraqi civilian. Berg was charged for the murder in late January, and is also facing charges of false swearing and the wearing [...]