Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has filed a petition seeking permission to appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit a December 15 ruling that declared the state's 1982...
The Adoption and Children Act , a new UK law effective Friday, has for the first time granted unmarried and same-sex couples in England and Wales the right to adopt children. The new legislation is designed to encourage adoption...
Senior officers in the British Army have been briefed on protecting the reputation of the armed services in the midst of close judicial scrutiny of soldiers' conduct in Iraq, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper...
The Canadian-based International Mission for Iraqi Elections established in 2004 to advise and consult on the Iraqi electoral process agreed Thursday to review the results of Iraq's December 15 parliamentary elections in...
Switzerland's Supreme Court Thursday overturned a lower court ruling and decided to extradite former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov to Russia, rather than to the US, where he...
A federal judge has refused a request made six months ago by former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling to dismiss the ten insider trading charges filed against him. Skilling is alleged to have sold $26...
An inquiry by the Pentagon's Inspector General has concluded that websites operated by the US military that pay journalists to write articles and commentary supporting military activities are legal and do not infringe and laws...
Less than two weeks after arguing in a brief that the US Supreme Court should stay out of the Jose Padilla "enemy combatant" case because criminal charges against Padilla in late November rendered his...
ProtectMarriage.com, one of two groups attempting to present a same-sex marriage ban to California voters in 2006, has halted its efforts for failure to gather the required 598,105 signatures needed to put...
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, soldiers, and prison doctors to jail terms ranging from 1.5 to 11 years for their complicity in the May uprising in Andijan [JURIST...
