Paris prosecutors requested Tuesday that charges of embezzlement and corruption against former French president and Paris mayor Jacques Chirac be dropped. As mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, Chirac is alleged to have placed...

Suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Prosecutors from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have said that they have significant information to use...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a mandatory anthrax vaccination program for some members of the military. The appeals court affirmed a February 2008 district...

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied the habeas corpus petition of suspected terrorist and US citizen Shawqi Omar , allowing him to be transferred...

Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Richard Goldstone formally presented the group's findings to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Tuesday. In his opening remarks , Goldstone...

Rempfer, et al. v. Sharfstein, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 29, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary...

Former Enron Broadband Services (EBS) CEO Joe Hirko was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison for misrepresenting to investors the capabilities of Enron's broadband service. Hirko pleaded guilty last October to one...

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori pleaded guilty Monday to multiple counts of illegal wiretapping and bribery. Fujimori was charged with ordering former Peruvian intelligence director Vladimiro Montesino to use government funds to...

The Joint Task Force responsible for reviewing the Guantanamo Bay detainees on Monday released a list of 78 detainees cleared for transfer. The list contains the nationalities and the number of detainees...

The head of the Honduran interim government Roberto Micheletti said Monday that he may lift restrictions on constitutional rights imposed Sunday by the end of the week. The de facto government passed an executive decree late...