US District Judge Richard J. Leon said Wednesday that systems set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to manage housing payments for victims of Hurricane Katrina had created a "legal...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Wednesday that a 1982 ban on corporate farming in Nebraska is unconstitutional because it violates the dormant commerce clause. The federal appeals court upheld a...
Members of Thailand's National People's Assembly (NPA) will meet next week to select a preliminary list of NPA members who will participate on a committee to draft a new constitution, but a senior Thai military official said...
Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, recommended...
Former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam was found guilty of genocide Tuesday at the conclusion of a 12-year in absentia trial. Mengistu and 72 other former officials were charged with genocide, imprisonment, homicide, and illegal confiscation of...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit late Monday postponed the date former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling must report to prison so that the court can consider Skilling's request that he be...
The UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected an attempt to force the government to hold a public inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war in Iraq . Two mothers of soldiers appealed a...
The government of the Australian Capital Territory on Tuesday introduced revised legislation that would grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships but would stop short of authorizing same-sex marriage . ACT Attorney General Simon...
Outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday urged the US not to abandon "its own ideals and objectives" in the war against terrorism, stressing that "human rights and the rule of law are vital to global security...
A federal judge has accepted the prosecution's latest proposal to limit the amount of detail former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby can introduce at trial concerning classified intelligence. In a sealed ruling...
