Recently released documents reveal that former Associate Deputy Attorney General David S. Kris expressed reservations about the Bush administration's legal rationale for its warrantless domestic surveillance program . In an e-mail to an...
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new rule that lowers the acceptable level of hexavalent chromium that can be present in a workplace....
A French court has ordered the three acquitted photographers who pursued Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed's car the night of their fatal crash in 1997 to pay one euro in damages...
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday again asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to answer his request for provisional release to travel to Russia for...
US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , said Tuesday that a top intelligence official had been prepared to brief the committee in December on the Bush administration's...
Chilean judge Orlando Alvarez on Tuesday refused to release former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from custody while the judge considers an extradition request for Fujimori . The decision means Fujimori, who is being...
In Tuesday's environmental news, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases that challenge the limits of the Clean Water Act (CWA) . The court heard consolidated arguments in Rapanos v. United States and Carabell...
British officials from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) who are investigating the killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was mistakenly shot by London police last year after the London bombings , plan to...
McDonald's is facing multiple legal actions after the fast-food giant admitted last week that milk and wheat ingredients are used to flavor its trademark french fries. Lawsuits in Illinois, California and Florida have been filed by two...
Leading Friday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency has begun efforts to secure a multilateral agreement to reduce air pollution in the central US. The Blue Skyways Collaborative was introduced at a meeting of representatives...
