According to a report published Sunday in the Dallas Morning News , eligible black jurors were being excluded from Dallas County juries by prosecutors more than twice as frequently as whites were turned away as recently...
In a Slate article published Wednesday, legal ethicists Stephen Gillers, David Luban and Steven Lubet claim that the White House violated the law when it interviewed Judge John Roberts this spring for the US Supreme...
The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after a summer recess, with Milosevic calling ethnic Albanian witnesses from Kosovo...
The Iraqi Islamic Party , Iraq's largest Sunni political group, on Wednesday heavily criticized the committee drafting a new Iraq constitution and said that the same major disputes blocking a draft last week remain to...
Israeli security soldiers on Thursday entered the religious settlement of Kfar Darom and surrounded a synagogue filled with hundreds of young pullout opponents as the soldiers removed screaming residents from nearby homes and a religious school. One soldier refused...
A US military jury on Wednesday convicted Pfc. Willie Brand of assault, maltreatment, false official swearing and maiming. Brand faces up to 16 years in military prison for beating one of two Afghan detainees who later died at Bagram...
Ohio Governor Bob Taft was charged Wednesday with criminal misdemeanors for failing to acknowledge nearly 70 golf outings and other favors. The charges stem from a two-month investigation by a task force of Ohio authorities and come...
The family of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes, mistakenly killed by police who thought they were pursuing a July 21 London bombing suspect, called Wednesday for a public investigation into the circumstances surrounding the...
Indian law minister H.R. Bharadwaj said Wednesday that the countrys 130 million Muslims must choose whether to abide by fatwas issued by Islamic family courts. The comments came in the wake of a petition filed by lawyer...
Pakistani police on Wednesday charged militant Mohammad Hashim Qadir in connection with the 2002 kidnapping and murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl . Qadir was picked up last month for involvement in the killing of a man on...
