The EU Commission has announced that it will pursue legal action Wednesday against Greece for disguising violations of EU budget restrictions on the countrys reported deficits from 1997 to 2003. The proceedings could result in fines imposed by the...
The Washington state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over a long-running dispute between the two major daily newspapers in Seattle over which will control the market. The dispute between the Seattle Times Co. and the Hearst...
The Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has asked the country's Supreme Court to declare the results of the presidential run-off invalid after outgoing President Leonid Kuchma called for an entirely new election....
The Ukrainian parliament Wednesday narrowly approved a no-confidence motion in the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the declared winner of last week's disputed presidential election, proposing instead a "government of national trust." The vote came on a second...
Updating a story reported Monday on JURIST's Paper Chase, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has bowed to pressure to make public its revised proposals for US stock trading reform in order to allow continued public debate on the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced legislation Tuesday to the state Duma that would set a maximum service age for judges and justices of the peace at 70 years old. The stated goal of the legislation is to create uniformity...
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and four Iraqi citizens will file a criminal complaint in Germany Tuesday against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and seven other high-ranking US officials, seeking to hold the officials accountable for acts of...
A divided three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an injunction Monday against the enforcement of the Solomon Amendment, a ten-year-old federal law which requires the United States Department of Defense to deny...
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, November 29, 2004 [policing Iran's promise to freeze all programs linked to uranium enrichment and welcoming Iran's suspension of sensitive...
AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to last year's Massachusetts high court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Read the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.10:48 AM...
