Top court allows lawsuits on U.N. property taxes
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on  Thursday that foreign governments can be sued in an effort to  collect unpaid local property taxes on residences for their  diplomats at the United Nations.
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The highest U.N. court was delivering  its ruling on Monday on whether Serbia committed genocide  through the killing, rape and ethnic cleansing that ravaged  Bosnia in the 1992-95 war.
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The International Court of Justice is to decide whether to allow a complaint filed against Germany by the tiny principality of Liechtenstein.
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TORONTO (CP) - The province's court of appeal is upholding Ontario's right to negotiate with Six Nations protesters who continue to occupy a former housing development site in Caledonia.
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The US Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would decide whether the government can take a person&#39;s home or business for a private development project intended to boost tax revenues and revitalize a local economy.
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Greenhouse gases that spur global warming are on the docket at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that pits environmental groups against the U.S. agency meant to shield Americans from pollution.
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In a victory for private property rights, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that local governments can't seize land against the owner's wishes simply because the property is underused.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court says individual participants in the most common type of retirement plan can sue under a pension protection law to recover their losses.
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Delays in the trial of Charles Taylor have caused much finger-pointing at the U.N.-backed special court.
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South Korea's tax tribunal ruled in favor of the National Tax Office's decision to impose $110 million in taxes on Lone Star's sale of an office building, the first verdict out of the U.S. fund's 25 tax disputes in the country.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 7 -- After stalling efforts to renovate the United Nations' Manhattan headquarters, the Bush administration joined other U.N. members this week in approving $4.9 million to renovate incoming Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's East Side residence, including a new $2.1 million central heating and air-conditioning system and a $200,000 kitchen upgrade....
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By Don Pyle; Alexandra Smith  Owners and developers of polluted properties in Oregon got a big boost from the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when it ruled private parties that voluntarily clean polluted sites can sue other responsible parties for the costs.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would decide whether the government can take a person's home or business for a private development project intended to boost tax revenues and revitalize a local economy.
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Taiwan&#39;s High Court is set to rule on Thursday on one of two opposition lawsuits contesting the March presidential poll that President Chen Shui-bian won by a narrow margin after an election eve assassination attempt.
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The Bush administration's faith-based initiatives got a boost Monday from the Supreme Court: a ruling that ordinary taxpayers cannot sue to stop conferences that help religious charities apply for federal grants.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A U.S. court has given the government permission to survey a parcel of land for a proposed fence along the Texas-Mexico border, in the first of more than 100 lawsuits threatened against recalcitrant landowners, a Justice Department spokesman said on Tuesday.
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A U.N.  tribunal favored Guyana on Thursday in a ruling setting its  border with Suriname in a century-old dispute over an oil basin  off the eastern shoulder of South America in the Atlantic  Ocean.