The entertainment industry and Sharman Networks announced Thursday that they had reached a settlement regarding Sharman's Kazaa software, which allowed illegal Internet downloads of music and movies . The company agreed to pay...
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Piracy settlement reached between entertainment industry, Kazaa
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Philippines warned to report rights abuses to UN or face sanctions
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Saddam trial adjourned to October 16 as verdict awaited
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Specter introduces bill allowing Congress to challenge presidential signing statements
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House, Senate pass bills limiting authority of US foreign investment committee
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Eminent domain ruling [OH SC]
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Washington same-sex marriage ban ruling [WA SC]
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Mexico presidential challenger files criminal complaint against election commission
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Federal judge deals second blow to KPMG prosecution
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China introduces regulations governing abuse of power prosecutions
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The United Nations may sanction the Philippines if its government continues to refuse to submit reports on human rights abuses in the country, the chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights Philippines (CHRP) [official...
Chief Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman on Thursday ordered proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial adjourned until October 16, when a verdict against the ousted Iraqi president is expected to be announced. Hussein was not...
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) Wednesday introduced legislation that would give Congress the power to bring lawsuits in federal court to challenge presidential bill signing statements the...
Both houses of the US Congress passed bills Wednesday that impose investigation guidelines on the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) , the panel that approved a Dubai-owned company to manage...
Norwood v. Horney, Ohio Supreme Court, July 26, 2006 . Read the full text of the...
Anderson v. King County, Washington Supreme Court, July 26, 2006 . Excerpt: The two cases before us require us to decide whether the legislature has the power to...
Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador filed a criminal complaint against the Federal Electoral Institute Tuesday, alleging that it should have blocked campaign ads funded by private companies that he alleges broke election...
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that statements made by two partners at accountancy firm KPMG cannot be used in their upcoming trial because federal prosecutors coerced the two defendants into cooperating with...
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) , the country's highest criminal prosecution body, has issued new regulations outlining 42 offenses constituting abuses of authority in a bid to prevent torture of criminal suspects and other...
