An official with Iran's Guardian Council said early Saturday local time that hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a commanding lead over former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the...
ABC News is reporting that ex-KKK member Edgar Ray Killen , now 80, has been sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison for manslaughter in connection with the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. Killen...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday in Kelo v. New London that a local government authority can expropriate private property - land, homes and businesses - for private redevelopment that confers economic benefits on the...
MasterCard announced late Friday that a security lapse at CardSystems Solutions , a third-party processing company in Tuscon, Arizona, has potentially exposed more than 40 million cards to fraud, and that it has notified banks of...
Hearing on Detainees, US Senate Judiciary Committee, June 15, 2005 . Excerpt from the testimony of Professor Stephen Schulhofer, New York University School of Law:For half a century, the United...
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld briefing on the military detention center at Guanatanamo Bay and other subjects, June 14, 2005 [saying that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at...
Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, embattled Morgan Stanley CEO Philip Purcell , has announced his retirement. Purcell has recently faced criticism from shareholders and former company executives for Morgan Stanleys financial and legal troubles....
GOP House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner abruptly adjourned a Committee hearing on the Patriot Act Friday, leaving Democrats objecting into dead air after their microphones had been turned off. The hearing had been called at...
Criminal Complaint, US v. Hamid Hayat and Umer Hayat, US District Court for the Eastern District of California, June 7, 2005. Read the full text of the complaint via FindLaw. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Completion strategy progress report, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, released June 8, 2005 . Read the full...
