The Russian State Duma on Friday gave first reading to a bill that would ban jury trials for terrorism, espionage, and treason, among other crimes. In a vote of 351 to 34 with...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in two cases. In al-Marri v. Pucciarelli , the Court will decide whether the Authorization for Use of Military Force [text,...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled Thursday that there was no human rights violation when a French school expelled two students for refusing to remove their headscarves ....
The Taiwan Taipei District Court on Thursday sentenced former head of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau Yeh Sheng-mao to 10 years in prison on corruption charges. Yeh was convicted of corruption,...
Two US congressman on Thursday sent a letter to US Attorney General Michael Mukasey , calling on him to explain comments he made Wednesday about pardoning US counterterrorism officials for their controversial policies. Mukasey...
The Iraqi presidential council on Thursday approved a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that sets a 2011 deadline for the withdraw of US troops but also approved an additional law calling for a national referendum...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Philip Morris USA v. Williams , the Court considered for a third time a $79.5...
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) banning the use of most such weapons was opened for signature Wednesday at a conference in Oslo, Norway. More than 100 countries adopted the convention in...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday proposed that Russian courts become more transparent in order to restore faith in the justice system and prevent people from turning to the European Court...
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that her 2006 decision invalidating a 2005 Bush administration rule that would allow road construction and mining in national forests applies only to 10 western states....
