A Canadian Federal Court ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must advocate for the repatriation of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr . Khadr claims that the Canadian government's refusal to request...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against Iran by hostages from the 1979 hostage situation in Tehran. The class-action lawsuit, brought by from former hostages Charles...
A Sudanese court on Wednesday sentenced 11 members of the Darfur rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death by hanging for their involvement in a 2008 attack on Khartoum...
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Thursday that oral arguments in a copyright infringement case could not be broadcast over the Internet. Respondent Joel Tenenbaum, one of many to be sued...
A Swedish court on Friday found four defendants guilty of abetting copyright infringement for hosting the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay and sentenced them to one year in prison. The...
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Wednesday appointed former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin as assistant secretary for international affairs and special representative for border affairs to oversee illegal immigration and anti-crime efforts along...
The US has been slow to conduct habeas corpus hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees despite a June 2008 US Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush mandating prompt hearings, Amnesty International (AI) said...
US military judge Colonel Patrick Parrish ruled Tuesday that Pentagon officials lacked the authority to dismiss Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler as defense counsel for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials, JURIST...
The Vermont House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill approving same-sex marriage . The bill, aimed at "promot legal equality in the civil marriage laws and ... protect the religious freedom of...
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich , his brother Robert Blagojevich, and four associates were indicted on corruption charges Thursday by a federal grand jury. Rod Blagojevich was charged with 16 felonies including wire fraud, attempted...
