According to high-level supporters on Friday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has affirmed his June vow that he will neither step down nor go into exile, despite the recent pressure from opposition forces. Secretary General of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q party Mushahid Hussain said that Musharraf will fight against impeachment, with plans to portray himself as [...]
An August 17 trial date has been set for five Sudanese men accused of killing John Granville, an aid worker affiliated with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) , Sudan's state media reported Friday. Following the January shooting of John Granville and his driver, a previously-unknown extremist group calling itself Ansar al-Tawhid claimed responsibility [...]
US District Judge James Robertson on Thursday ruled in a 12-year class action lawsuit concerning the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 Native Americans. Plaintiffs led by Eloise Cobell had argued that the federal government owed them $58 billion, representing its profits from land use violative of trust [...]
The aerospace division of Honeywell International has agreed to pay $5 million in fines and $1 million for a cleanup project for environmental violations at its Phoenix, Arizona facility, according to a Thursday release from Arizona officials. In the lawsuit , the state had alleged that the Honeywell had committed 38 infractions of state environmental laws , [...]
L. Ali Khan : "Pakistan's ruling coalition has finally gathered the courage to impeach Pervez Musharraf who assumed and retained power as the Army Chief for over eight years in violation of the constitution. Musharraf's hold on power collapsed when he took off his military uniform and his political cronies lost the 2008 general elections. [...]
An Indian Supreme Court judge on Friday withdrew from hearing a judicial bribery case after lawyers accused the court of protecting corrupt judges. Justice B.N. Agrawal said that he refused to consider unsubstantiated accusations against the court, adding that the behavior of the accusers, former Union Law Minister Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant Bhushan [...]
Danilo Reyes : "There was no final peace agreement signed yet. What the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have agreed so far was the draft of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD). The draft agreement, which would be the basis for the resumption of formal peace [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a so-called "sore loser" election law in South Carolina. Under the law, a candidate that seeks a nomination from multiple parties will be banned from appearing on the ballot if any one of those parties rejects his candidacy. The ACLU is representing Eugene [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a claim brought by the mother of a special education student that her child's Fourth and Fourteenth amendment rights were violated when he was given "timeouts." Jennifer Couture sued the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and three individual school officials for placing her child, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday affirmed the dismissal of a shareholder securities suit against Biogen Idec , in which the class of plaintiffs accused directors of violating the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by intentionally misrepresenting the safety of its multiple-sclerosis drug, Tysabri , in order to sell their [...]
