The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Tuesday indicted a Kosovar journalist on contempt of court charges for allegedly revealing the identity of a witness in the war crimes trial of former Kosovar...
New Zealand's Human Rights Commission announced Monday that the Human Rights Review Tribunal has found the nation's accident compensation system to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights...
The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Monday, including United States v. Rodriquez , where the Court ruled that for purposes of increasing a sentence under the...
A jury in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday convicted an Afghan national originally held as an enemy combatant on charges of drug distribution and narco-terrorism. Khan Mohammed was charged...
US Solicitor General Paul Clement announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his post, effective June 2. Perhaps best-known for his Supreme Court advocacy of Bush Administration positions on rights and procedures...
US Air Force Reserve Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann , a top Pentagon legal advisor on the Guantanamo military commission trials, said Wednesday that he will not resign despite questions concerning his objectivity. Hartmann serves as legal...
US District Court Judge Vanessa Gilmore ordered retrials for three former Enron Broadband Services executives Monday. Scheduled to begin in November, the new series of trials follows a refusal by the US Court of...
Death penalty charges against Guantanamo detainees Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men allegedly involved in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States have been confirmed by the...
The US Supreme Court granted limited certiorari Monday in Bell v. Kelly (07-1223) , where it will consider whether the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when, in conflict with...
The US Supreme Court Monday affirmed a judgment by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on an anti-apartheid claims lawsuit on the rare grounds that it lacked a quorum...
