A military judge in Foot Hood, Texas, has refused to dismiss any remaining charges against US Army Spc. Sabrina Harman in connection with 2003 abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST Hot...
In an interview with three news agencies Monday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied renewed allegations that pursuant to an executive order issued after the September 11 attacks the CIA had flown as many as 150 terror suspects to...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone opened its final scheduled trial in Freetown Monday as outgoing chief prosecutor David Crane outlined his case against three former members of the the country's military...
The House of Lords, the upper chamber of the UK Parliament, Monday turned back by 249-119 a controversial anti-terror bill that would have permitted government ministers to issue so-called "control orders" limiting the movement or freedoms of certain terror...
Shepard v. US, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Souter, March 7, 2005 [holding that in making certain sentencing determinations, judges are confined to information in the charging document, in the terms of any plea agreement terms, or admissions...
Wilkinson v. Dotson, Supreme Court of the United States, March 7, 2005 [holding that prisoners asserting violations of their due process rights under federal civil rights laws are not required to bring a petition of habeas corpus questioning the validity...
Ballard v. Commissioner, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Ginsburg, March 7, 2005 . Excerpt:The Tax Court's practice of...
Plagued by allegations of football prospects recruited with sex and alcohol, legal action brought against the university by two women who claimed they were raped by CU football players, and a free speech controversy about Ward Churchill ,...
AP is reporting that President Bush has picked Under Secretary of State John Bolton to be US ambassador to the United Nations , according to a government official "knowledgeable about the...
The US Supreme Court ruled in three cases Monday. In Shepard v. US , the court in a 5-3 opinion by Justice Souter held that in making sentencing determinations, judges are confined to information...
