The US Supreme Court held Wednesday in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry and three other consolidated cases that only one of the new voting districts created by the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan that helped Republicans gain six seats in the US Congress is invalid under the Voting Rights Act . The [...]
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony told the Times of London in an interview published Wednesday that he was "not guilty" of atrocities attributed to him, describing himself as a "freedom fighter" rather than a terrorist. Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 33 counts of [...]
Financial firm Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc on Tuesday agreed to pay a $10 million settlement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission without admitting or denying allegations made by the SEC that Morgan Stanley failed to protect against potential misuse of insider trading information as required by law. The SEC instituted and immediately settled [...]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday clarified vague portions of his national reconciliation proposal , saying that no insurgent responsible for the death of Iraqis or coalition forces would be entitled to amnesty. In an interview with several US newspapers, al-Maliki said The fighter who did not kill anyone will be included in the [...]
A two-year campaign to pass a physician-assisted suicide law in California has failed by one vote in a legislative committee. The state's Senate Judiciary Committee voted 3-2 on Tuesday to reject the California Compassionate Choices Act , which was modeled on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act . The bill would have permitted physicians to prescribe [...]
European Union nations may create additional requirements to family reunification where a child is older than 12 years old and arrives in the member nation as an immigrant before the rest of the family without violating fundamental family rights, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday. The ECJ dismissed an action filed by the European [...]
The US Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Detroit to dismiss a lawsuit brought by eleven Democrats from the US House of Representatives seeking to halt the implementation of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 . The law was signed by President Bush in February, but identical versions of the legislation were [...]
A proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit physical desecration of the American flag failed by one vote late Tuesday to get the two-thirds Senate approval necessary to send it on to the states for ratification. Senators voted 66 in favor, and 34 against . The US House of Representatives passed the amendment last summer. The last [...]
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Tuesday that the US government violated the constitutional rights of 16 former employees of KPMG by pressuring the professional services firm to stop paying the employees' defense costs in an ongoing criminal tax shelters case . US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan found that the tactic violated the defendants' [...]
A Bosnian immigrant to the United States accused of concealing his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre to gain entry went on trial Tuesday in Boston, where survivors described their ordeals in court. Marko Boskic was charged in August 2004 with five counts of making false declarations on US immigration applications and in an interview [...]
