Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli said Wednesday that the Italian government would not validate Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro's request to extradite from the United States 22 CIA agents allegedly responsible for the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition...
Vacating a lesser sentence, the Quebec Court of Appeal has imposed an 18-month prison term on Canadian advertising executive Paul Coffin, who last May pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud in the federal sponsorship...
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday found Nedjo Samardzic guilty of committing crimes against humanity and escaping from prison during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and sentenced him...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Friday unanimously ruled against US Securities and Exchange Commission corporate governance regulations that require mutual fund...
The vice president of Russian oil giant Yukos , Vasily Aleksanyan, has been charged by Russian prosecutors with embezzling company funds and laundering money. Aleksanyan, who only took over as Yukos VP on Tuesday, headed up Yukos legal...
A New Jersey state court jury on Wednesday rendered a split verdict after two days of deliberations in a joint trial that pitted two state residents who took the painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST...
US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday that jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui will be allowed to hear the cockpit tape and read the transcript of United...
The Belarus government has charged close to 600 people who participated in the protests that followed the March 19 presidential election that returned incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko to a third term in a...
French judicial officials have begun an investigation of the 172 French companies implicated in the UN oil-for-food scandal by the October 2005 report of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) chaired by...
The French Constitutional Council on Thursday declared that the First Employment Contract (CPE) , a controversial labor law which allows employers to hire workers under 26 for a conditional two-year period at the end of...
