Search Results for: 2006-12-26

The French National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday approved compromise labor legislation to replace the controversial First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) , the youth jobs plan that prompted...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin indicated Tuesday that he might back off from his previous insistence on a provision of the First Employment Contract (CPE) he guided through Parliament...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act...

The European Parliament , which has launched an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland, said...

EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has responded to a Council of Europe report , released Tuesday by urging all EU member nations to fully comply with the ongoing COE investigation into...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, Alabama Governor Bob Riley signed legislation today that creates a mandatory sentence of at least 20 years to life for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 12 and younger, and...

In a major course-reversal, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (official website here), now a candidate for state governor in 2006, has said that he is ready to turn high-profile investigations of wrongdoing by investment banks, mutual funds and...