FBI director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the rise in financial fraud investigations is limiting the ability of the FBI to fight other crimes. Mueller, speaking during the "Oversight of...
The Xinhua District Court in China Wednesday accepted the first civil suit seeking damages against a dairy company in connection with the contaminated milk scandal . The lawsuit , which was brought by the family of...
The trial of the only captured gunman in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks , Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab , began on Monday. Kasab appeared before specially appointed judge M.L. Tahiliyani at the Bombay...
Chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Royce Lamberth criticized the US Senate on Monday for politicizing the federal judicial confirmation process. Lamberth accused both political parties ...
Top officials from the Obama administration met with leaders from the European Union (EU) Monday to discuss plans to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to European countries. US Attorney General Eric...
The number of immigrants detained by the US has drastically increased over the last decade, according to an AP report issued Sunday. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, obtain by the...
The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division ruled Tuesday that the parents of a 23 year-old, who donated semen prior to his death from cancer in 1998, were not entitled to possession of the...
The Zimbabwean attorney general's office on Wednesday appealed to the nation's Supreme Court a Tuesday High Court ruling ordering the release of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party treasurer general and cabinet member-designate Roy Bennett [JURIST news...
A judge from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced on Monday that the ECCC's Cambodian employees will not be paid in March. The UN-backed tribunal is staffed by both local...
US District Judge Samuel Kent pleaded guilty on Monday to obstruction of justice charges in connection with the alleged sexual harassment of his secretary and former case manager. The plea agreement included an admission that the sexual...
