Sudan's state-run news agency Saturday quoted the country's vice-president as saying that Sudan would not extradite any Sudanese suspected of war crimes for trial in foreign courts. Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha said...
Hundreds of thousands of French workers took to the streets Saturday to protest pending legislation that would allow for extensions of France's 35-hour workweek. The legislation, first announced in December and scheduled for first reading in the...
Hernandez and Cohen et al. v. Robles, New York Supreme Court, Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, February 5, 2005 . Excerpt:As a society, we recognize that the decision of whether and...
USA v. Philip Morris, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, February 4, 2005 . Excerpt:A group...
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that federal law does not permit the goverment to seek a $280 billion penalty in its racketeering case against the tobacco industry. In its opinion [PDF...
Addressing US Department of Justice employees the day after being confirmed as US Attorney General , Alberto Gonzales said that the Justice Department's top priority will be "to protect...
The US Senate has voted 60-36 to confirm White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as US Attorney General, succeeding John Ashcroft. He will be the first Hispanic to hold the office.5:17 PM ET - AP now has more.7:28 PM ET...
Speaking late Thursday afternoon on behalf of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Chef du Cabinet Mark Malloch Brown said that the UN would take immediate disciplinary action against staff named as wrongdoers by the Volcker commission...
Interim Report, Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food Program, February 3, 2005 [concluding, among other things, that the conduct of program head Benon Sevan in soliciting oil deals was "ethically improper and seriously undermined the integrity of the United...
Little more than two weeks after telling the Washington Post that he would not press the Senate to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, President Bush has publicly reversed course in tonight's State of the Union Address:Because...
