A Spanish National Court judge has confirmed indictments against 29 suspects accused in connection with the March 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people and injured or wounded almost 2000 others. Judge Juan del Olmo...
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy ordered Friday that a temporary stay against the removal of a monumental cross on city property in San Diego be continued until the Ninth Circuit hears an appeal on the cross's...
Howard M. Engle MD et al. v. Liggett Group, Supreme Court of Florida, July 6, 2006 [rejecting a record-setting jury verdict that had awarded $145 billion in punitive damages in a class action challenge brought by smokers against tobacco companies...
Perdue v. O'Kelley, Supreme Court of Georgia, July 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Daniel Hernandez v. Victor L. Robles , New York Court of Appeals, July 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in...
Former Qatari justice minister Najib al-Nuaimi has said that any attempt by the Iraqi government to extradite Saddam Hussein's first wife Sajida from her current presumed residence in Qatar would fail. Al-Nuaimi, currently a member of Saddam...
The appeals chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled Tuesday that eight years solitary confinement in a French prison for the convicted assassin and terrorist known popularly as...
Iraq's justice minister called Tuesday for international supervision of the US investigation of the rape and murder of one Iraqi civilian and the murder of three others in Mahmudiya in March. On Monday, US federal prosecutors charged former US...
Israel was sharply criticized by Swiss diplomats Monday for allegedly violating international humanitarian law in its latest actions against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as tensions between Israel and Palestinian authorities continue to mount over the seizure of an...
Former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke took senior British judges to task over terrorism in an editorial published Monday in London's Evening Standard newspaper, saying that they had repeatedly refused to meet with him to discuss the interpretation...
