Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was found guilty Friday on corruption charges and sentenced to life in prison. Chen's wife Wu Shu-Chen was also given a life sentence after the pair were...

Saleh, et al. v. Titan Corporation, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 11, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper...

Schwarzenegger, et al. v. Coleman, et al., US Supreme Court, September 11, 2009 ....

The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Thursday invalidated ballots from last month's presidential election from certain polls in Kandahar, Ghazni, and Paktika provinces. The ECC found "clear and convincing evidence of fraud" at...

Czech lawmakers have agreed to amend the country's constitution to allow parliamentary elections to take place in November, as the Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the...

Japan continues to execute mentally ill prisoners despite a criminal code provision outlawing the practice, according to a report released Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) . According to the report, while...

Three Chinese Uighur Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay since 2001 have agreed to be relocated to Palau , their lawyers told the Associated Press Wednesday. The detainees have been cleared for transfer since District Judge...

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday that he would begin investigating claims of war crimes by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) soldiers in Afghanistan. In a briefing, Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official...

Pl. US 27/09... na zruseni ustavniho zakona c. 195/2009 Sb., o zkraceni pateho volebního období Poslanecka snemovny (judgment on the proposal to repeal the Constitutional Act No. 195/2009 to shorten the fifth term of Deputies), Czech Republic Constitutional Court, September...

Two former Pennsylvania judges were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on 48 counts in connection with alleged illegal actions to benefit private juvenile detention facilities. The charges against Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella, Jr. include...