The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday rejected a complaint filed by high-end grocer Whole Foods Market against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last...
The Supreme Court of Nicaragua on Friday overturned the corruption conviction of former president Arnoldo Aleman. Aleman was convicted of money laundering and embezzlement in 2003, after being accused of taking up to $100 million...
Lawyers for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced Friday that they will boycott impeachment proceedings against Blagojevich in the Illinois State Senate . The lawyers, Edward Genson, Sam Adam, and Sam Adam, Jr., will...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that nondisclosure requirements contained in national security letters (NSLs) sent by the Federal Bureau of...
Russian authorities on Sunday arrested former chess champion and Russian opposition political activist Garry Kasparov and others as they met to form a new political opposition group. Kasparaov's new...
UK financial firm Bramdean Alternatives Limited raised concerns Saturday about the US financial regulatory process in the wake of Thursday's arrest of former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff for a $50 billion fraud scheme...
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sunday denied entry to and deported the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk . Falk was attempting to enter...
An Iranian court has sentenced 16 former employees of the Central Bank of Iran to jail and lashes for accepting bribes. According to an Iranian state radio broadcast , the staff members were convicted of accepting...
The Montana First Judicial District ruled Friday that terminally ill patients in the state have the right to commit physician-assisted suicide. The case, Baxter v. Montana was brought by a number of terminally-ill Montanans,...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Friday signed into law legislation authorizing the creation of a DNA database for convicted criminals, according to reports. Under the law, passed by the State Duma on November...
