The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision yesterday limiting the reach of international treaties pitted Texas state courts against President Bush and the International Court of Justice.
Bear Stearns general counsel Michael Solender was one of six corporate insiders who sold stock options before they dropped below $3 a share, according to a published report.
In oral arguments tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider when a judge can refuse a defendant’s request to represent himself at trial.
Satellite Radio´s planned merger with its smaller rival Sirius Satellite, announced more than a year ago, is one step closer to happening now that the Department of Justice has signed off on the deal.
Chavez says new tax will target rising oil company earnings. Venezuela will soon impose a new tax on oil companies to recoup a larger share of their rising profits, President Hugo Chavez said Monday.
The Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday sentenced seven members of the banned National Bolshevik Party to prison for "armed hooliganism." The sentences ranged from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years.
Shareholder activist Carl Icahn has said he is suing Motorola to force it to release documents about its struggling mobile phone handset unit. Mr Icahn, Motorola´s second-biggest shareholder, said he wanted to determine whether the company´s directors had "failed in their duties".
US District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California Monday sentenced former Chinese-American engineer Chi Mak to over 24 years in prison for conspiring to commit espionage, attempting to violate export control laws, failing to register as an agent of a foreign government, and making false statements to federal agents.
In the latest signpost pointing toward a potential loosening-up of federal restrictions on broadcast content, the Fox Television network is fighting a $91,000 FCC indecency fine over a 2003 reality program featuring strippers and whipped cream that contestants licked off of digitally obscured body parts.
In his first act as Pakistan´s new prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani today freed the country´s deposed supreme court chief justice and some 60 other jurists from the house arrest under which they have been held since November.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Canada´s Biovail Corp and four current or former officers, including former Chief Executive Eugene Melnyk, of engaging in a number of fraudulent accounting schemes.
Malaysia will institute reforms to ensure an independent judiciary in an effort to restore trust in the nation´s courts, newly appointed Malaysian Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim told the New Straits Times Sunday.
The Government will bring in a new law in order to deter people, particularly corporates, doctors and educationists, from shunning persons infected with HIV virus, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said.
Most jurisdictions use lie detector tests in an attempt to learn if sex offenders are violating their probation. Now some jurisdictions are also using polygraphs to test probationers convicted of domestic abuse and drunk driving.
A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered Starbucks Corp. to pay its California baristas more than $100 million in back tips and interest that the coffee chain paid to shift supervisors.
The Taiwanese Central Election Commission said Saturday that two national referendums on whether to proceed with a proposed bid for United Nations (UN) membership have failed.
Beijing vowed to quell mobile phone spam messages on Sunday after seven advertising companies including Nasdaq-traded Focus Media were discovered to have sent commercial messages to practically half of China´s population of cell phone users without their consent.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Chamber of Commerce v. Brown, 06-939, a case where the Court is reviewing the constitutionality of a 2000 California law that prohibits employers from using certain funds they receive from the state to influence union elections.
Kenya should not grant amnesty to anyone who committed human rights violations in the wake of December´s disputed presidential election, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision yesterday emphasizing the importance of eliminating racial bias in jury selection, according to the lawyer for a black murder defendant who won a retrial in the case.
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