Search Results for: 2001-10-08

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, Northwest Airlines continued service today, the second full business day of strikes by their mechanics' union. In what some are seeing as a serious blow to organized labor , the airline...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law brief, the New York Stock Exchange says it has censured and fined Merrill Lynch for what it called "supervisory and operational lapses." In a press release, the NYSE indicated it has fined the...

Leading Monday's states brief, the Rhode Island Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on whether a casino proposed by the Narragansett Indian tribe and the Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment would be a constitutional expansion of...

Leading Wednesday's corporation and securities law news, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has suspended controversial corporate governance rules for mutual funds promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The suspension will last until...

In the wake of a US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision Tuesday in which the convictions and sentences of five accused Cuban spies were overturned , the Cuban government has called...

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri , an Illinois student from Qatar, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina Monday accusing his military jailers of violating his human rights [Human Rights Watch...

Canadian Transport Minister Jean Lapierre announced sweeping security changes to Canadian transportation security Friday, including the creation of an anti-terror "no-fly" list similar to that created in the US under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of...

India's Supreme Court on Thursday let stand the death sentence of Mohammad Afzal for his role in a 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament that left nine people dead. The court commuted the death sentence...