Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for the creation of a truth commission to investigate the national security policies of the George W. Bush...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two criminal procedure cases Wednesday. In Abuelhawa v. United States the Court heard arguments on whether a defendant...

Sudan and other African countries on Wednesday criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , while Sudan's opposition leaders,...

A court under the European Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) reached its first verdict Tuesday, sentencing Kosovo Albanian Gani Gashi to 17 years in jail for murder, attempted murder, and...

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on Tuesday ruled that the use of electronic voting machines in elections is unconstitutional. The ruling comes after a challenge to the use of...

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday in Wyeth v. Levine that the drug labeling requirements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) do...

The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division ruled Tuesday that the parents of a 23 year-old, who donated semen prior to his death from cancer in 1998, were not entitled to possession of the...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese head of state Omar al-Bashir , charging him with...

The Zimbabwean attorney general's office on Wednesday appealed to the nation's Supreme Court a Tuesday High Court ruling ordering the release of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party treasurer general and cabinet member-designate Roy Bennett [JURIST news...

Preliminary hearings began Tuesday in the new trial of former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a Moscow courtroom. Khodorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev are facing new charges [JURIST...