UN special envoy for human rights defenders and co-founder of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Hina Jilani told US lawmakers in Washington Thursday that Pakistan's parliamentary elections scheduled for January 8 have already...
Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep, Inc. et al. v. James Goldstone, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, December 12, 2007 . Read...
Robert Pickton , accused of the deadliest string of serial killings in Canadian history, was sentenced by a British Columbia judge Tuesday to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years. The sentence was the maximum...
In Re: Motion for Release of Court Records, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, December 11, 2007 ....
The superior courts of Pakistan are facing a massive shortage of judges in the wake of automatic dismissals following President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule, according to Pakistani officials in the country's Law Ministry ...
Humanitarian Law Project et al. v. Michael V. Mukasey, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, December 10, 2007 [striking down as too vague portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and its 2004 amendment,...
Three new judges were appointed to the reconstituted Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday, bringing the regular membership of the court up to 14, including Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar. Pakistan's Law Ministry said in a statement that...
A national convention of Pakistani lawyers meeting in Lahore Saturday called on its members to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections in the country and urged political parties to do the same. The All Pakistan Lawyers' Representatives Convention said that efforts...
Arizona Contractors Association et al. v. Janet Napolitano et al., United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Decem,ber 7, 2007 . Read...
Six French charity workers accused of complicity in an abortive effort by French charity Zoe's Ark to airlift so-called "Darfur orphans" out of Chad to Europe went on a hunger strike in...
