Judge Thomas Horne of the Virginia Loudoun County Circuit sentenced a former Internet spammer to nine years in prison Friday for violating a Virginia anti-spam law in the first US felony prosecution for sending unsolicited...
Philip Alston , a UN human rights investigator speaking in Geneva Friday, urged countries to remove their "cloak of secrecy" and disclose the numbers of prisoners executed and those waiting on death row. Alston, an Australian jurist...
Six major electronics companies have been indicted for allegedly defrauding the federal E-Rate program, a $2.25 billion per-year project that assists underfunded schools and libraries in accessing the Internet. While some companies are accused of overcharging equipment and submitting...
AP is reporting that Eric Rudolph has agreed to plead guilty to four terrorist attacks, including the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympic Games....
Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former CEO of Yukos , concluded their defense of the oil magnate Friday before the three judge panel that has heard the trial for the past 10 months. Khodorkovsky [JURIST news...
Former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland arrived Friday at Loretto , a minimum-security federal prison in Pennsylvania, to begin his year-long sentence for corruption of office. Rowland was sentenced two weeks ago to...
Florida circuit judge Judge George Greer Friday denied a request from the St. Petersburg Times for the release of investigative summaries regarding alleged mistreatement of Terri Schiavo . The dozens of files in question are...
The Nebraska Supreme Court Friday upheld a state law which requires mandatory blood testing of newborn infants. The opinion rejected an appeal brought by a fundamental Christian couple, Josue and Mary Anaya. The Anayas argued...
Lawyers for Yahoo! Inc. have appeared before the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking legal protection for US Internet portals displaying content which is illegal in foreign countries, but is domestically protected by the First Amendment...
Former Connecticut governor John G. Rowland was sentenced Friday to one year in prison, four months of house arrest, three years probation, and an $82,000 fine after pleading guilty in December to a federal...
