The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced that it would not post criminal prosecutors at the polls for the November 4 presidential election, responding to concerns raised by civil rights groups. The decision...
A legal adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued an opinion Tuesday that UK regulations permitting mandatory retirement policies do not violate an EU anti-discrimination law. ECJ Advocate General Jan...
US Senate Democrats on Monday questioned the constitutionality of the Bush administration's proposal to stabilize financial markets and introduced their own plan allowing courts to review purchases of troubled assets by the Treasury Department...
The US-led Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF) announced Monday that it had released an Afghan freelance journalist detained since last year as an enemy combatant . A military spokesman said Jawed Ahmad, who had been...
Lawyers in Nepal began a boycott of court proceedings Sunday to protest the suspension of the national bar association's leader by the Nepalese Supreme Court . The court last week suspended Bishwa Kanta...
A US federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction requiring US Vice President Dick Cheney to preserve all his official records pending resolution of a lawsuit alleging that his office has failed...
The Venezuelan government ordered two senior officials of Human Rights Watch (HRW) to leave the country Thursday night after the group released a report concluding that democracy and human rights have suffered during the presidency...
A US Army Special Forces soldier faces court-martial proceedings following his arraignment in connection with the killing of an Afghan man earlier this year. The Army announced Thursday that Master Sgt. Joseph D. Newell...
US blogger and attorney Gopalan Nair was sentenced to three months in jail Wednesday for insulting a Singaporean judge. Justice Kan Ting Chiu of the Singaporean High Court told Nair that he...
A bill overwriting judicial interpretations which have narrowed protections under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) awaits President Bush's signature following passage by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday....
