The US Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it will no longer defend in court the federal excise tax on long-distance telephone calls , and will issue refunds to taxpayers of all monies...
Lawyers for former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov announced Thursday their intention to appeal to the Russian Supreme Court a Moscow City Court decision to extend Adamov's detention until June 8....
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has said that his committee will hold an oversight hearing into the constitutionality of the FBI's 18-hour raid last Saturday night of the congressional offices of Rep....
CNN is reporting that the jury in the 16-week criminal fraud and conspiracy case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling has found both defendants guilty. Lay and Skilling were charged with multiple...
Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker , whose country held the EU presidency when France and the Netherlands voted against the European constitution, said Thursday that Germany's push to ratify the European Constitution [official website, text; JURIST...
A Tokyo District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by South Korean families seeking damages for affronting the dignity of South Korean soldiers by recording their names in the Yasukuni Shrine , which commemorates the...
A judge from the Iraqi town that is the focus of the ongoing Saddam Hussein trial was abducted by gunmen Wednesday. Dujail Judge Walid Ahmed was kidnapped from his car on the highway between Tikrit and...
Three Egyptian journalists and a lawyer have been charged with slandering a local election commission chief by alleging fraud in Egypt's November parliamentary election and publishing the names of two judges accused of rigging results in a runoff poll...
Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) have announced a $400 million settlement with the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae ....
A federal judge on Wednesday gave final approval to a $6.6 billion settlement between former Enron shareholders and the three banks accused of helping Enron hide financial shortcomings to deceive investors. Lead plaintiff's attorney...
