US District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram has dismissed several lawsuits that sought to block reparations for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Last month, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that...
The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) , representing Inuit indigenous peoples in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia, has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government...
Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Paul Cote Jr. has said that church-run and other private hospitals will be able to opt out from a new state law requiring emergency room doctors to offer emergency contraception to rape...
European officials have said they are satisfied with assurances by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that US policies on the treatment of terror detainees fall within the bounds of international law. Rice is currently in Europe...
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) ruled Wednesday that Microsoft breached antitrust rules and ordered the company to pay a $32 million fine and offer multiple versions of its Windows operating system...
Alexander Vershbow , the US ambassador to South Korea, on Wednesday called North Korea a "criminal regime" that is involved in arms sales, drug trafficking and currency forgery. Vershbow's comments came as he...
The US Supreme Court handed down two decisions Wednesday, including one in Lockhart v. US , where the court held that the federal government can offset Social Security benefits to collect outstanding student loan debt...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday sentenced Miroslav Bralo , a former Bosnian Croat soldier, to 20 years in jail. Bralo pleaded guilty to murder, rape and torture charges...
AP is reporting that a federal jury has acquitted Sami Al-Arian , the former Florida professor accused of aiding Palestinian terrorists, on some counts but has deadlocked on others.Previously in JURIST's Paper Chase...Ex-professor calls no...
As the fourth session of the Saddam Hussein trial came to a close Tuesday, Hussein shouted at the judges that he would not return to an 'unjust court' when the Iraqi Special Tribunal reconvenes...
