The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved a bipartisan bill that would allow television coverage of all open US Supreme Court hearings. The Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2007 would permit the Supreme...
Three United Nations human rights experts joined together Friday to voice their distress over the effect planned constitutional reforms in Venezuela may have on civil liberties and the rule of law in the country. Ambeyi Ligabo, Special...
US District Judge James Cacheris of the Eastern District of Virginia Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging measures adopted by the Prince William County Board of Supervisors that required local police to...
BP Exploration Alaska (BPXA), a subsidiary of British Petroleum (BP) , pleaded guilty Thursday to violating the Clean Water Act in a case stemming from the March 2006 oil spill at the company's Prudhoe Bay...
Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak was charged Friday with fraud and attempting to embezzle $43.3 million in state funds, according to his lawyer. After an initial investigation the Russian Prosecutor General's Office ...
French prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin has dismissed a war crimes claim against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld alleging that Rumsfeld authorized US personnel to torture prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, according to a lawyer for...
Lawyers in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, went on strike Saturday in protest at President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. Members of the Karachi Bar Association and other local bar associations followed an earlier strike call from the Pakistan Bar Council...
Over 10,000 protesters, most of them African-American, marched in front of the US Department of Justice building Friday to highlight what they claim are inadequate efforts to prosecute a spate of recent race-related crimes across the country....
The US Justice Department has not yet made a decision on whether it will file criminal charges against Blackwater USA employees involved in the killings of 14 Iraqi civilians during a September 16 incident that...
Nineteen lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have introduced a resolution to support Taiwan's bid for UN membership. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) introduced the bill at a Thursday meeting of the...
