Two Iraqi Kurds now living in the US, Hassen Ali Abdullah and Khalida Ali, have sued Saddam Hussein in US federal court, seeking compensation for Kurdish victims of genocidal attacks in 1980s Iraq. The class action...
Lord Steyn, a recently retired UK senior judge, has said that the UK government had to scrape the bottom of the legal barrel in order to justify its invasion of Iraq. Lord Steyn also agreed with the conclusion of...
The United Kingdom and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Tuesday which specifies that foreign nationals deported from the UK to Libya will not be mistreated upon their return. The agreement was signed by Britain's Ambassador to Libya...
CNN is reporting that Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, who is presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi High Criminal Court, formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal , has...
Google will no longer use the "Gmail" name for its UK e-mail service in part of a long-running trademark dispute with small UK financial research company Independent II Research (IIIR). IIIR claims that it launched its "G-MailTM"...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that the use of foreign law in US Supreme Court opinions is "anti-democratic" and "unworkable." In a speech given at George Mason University Law School, Gonzales...
An argumentative Saddam Hussein pleaded not guilty Wednesday as he and seven co-defendants from the defunct Baath Party went on trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal , also known as the Iraqi High...
US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers Tuesday submitted her responses to written questions posed by the Senate Judiciary Committee , revealing past support for a constitutional amendment banning abortions except when necessary to...
The US Supreme Court Monday lifted a temporary stay issued late Friday that blocked a lower court order allowing prison officials in Missouri to transport a pregnant inmate to a medical facility for an abortion....
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Friday that it would not reconsider its decision to end a two-year ban on Canadian cattle imports. Earlier this year a group of...
