In two related cases, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that states are permitted to impose registration fees on trucks and other commercial vehicles that travel at least part of the time on a state's roadways. Read the Court's...
In an article published Monday in GQ magazine, young US soldiers given the job of guarding former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein say they found him to be friendly, talkative, and a "clean freak." Three soldiers from the Pennsylvania...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision that public defenders had wrongfully failed to review records showing evidence of mental retardation and a troubled childhood in the case of Pennsylvania death row inmate Ronald Rompilla. In...
Court of First Instance President Bo Vesterdorf is planning to move the Microsoft EU antitrust case from the current panel headed by Judge Hubert Legal to a panel headed by himself. The proposed change comes...
Medecins San Frontieres said Monday that the Sudanese government has dropped charges against two aid workers accused of publishing false information in a report detailing widespread rape in the volatile Darfur region....
A federal court in Burlington, Vermont is expected to hear opening statements Monday in the first death-penalty case in the state since 1957. Vermont does not have a death penalty but Donald Fell was charged under a federal capital...
With many predicting a retirement announcement from current Chief Justice William Rehnquist when the US Supreme Court's current term ends June 27, advisors to President Bush are said to be concentrating on three possible replacements: Judge John...
By a vote of 221-184 the US House of Representatives has passed the United Nations Reform Act of 2005 calling for broad reforms at the UN and allowing the US to withold up to 50 percent of...
Former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and former CFO Mark Schwartz were convicted Friday of grand larceny in connection with huge bonuses and other compensation amounting to over $150M they improperly received while in charge of the...
Ethiopian officials announced Friday that 336 detainees seized in the wake of post-election protests have been freed. A government spokesman said that any additional prisoners found not to have been involved in the protests would be released....
