The European Court of Justice on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to a European Commission directive requiring telecommunication companies operating in European Union (EU) member countries to retain phone...
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Europe court dismisses challenge to data retention directive
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Obama administration to reverse Bush offshore drilling policy
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South Korea appeals court affirms landmark right-to-die ruling
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Solicitor General nominee Kagan pledges to be ‘true to the rule of law’
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DOJ urges court not to define ‘enemy combatant’
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Italy legislature to hold right-to-die vote despite comatose woman’s death
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Senate judiciary chair Leahy calls for ‘truth commission’ to investigate Bush policies
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Federal judges order California to reduce prison population
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Albania Supreme Court judge shot in Tirana
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Mexico publishes law establishing fingerprint database of mobile phone users
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US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced plans Tuesday to reverse offshore drilling policies established by former US President George W. Bush at the end of his presidency. The move comes...
A South Korea appellate court on Tuesday upheld a landmark lower court ruling authorizing removal of life-support from a comatose woman. Tuesday's decision by the Seoul High Court affirmed the December ruling of the Seoul Western...
US Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan said Tuesday that she was committed to being "true to the rule of law" in confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee . Kagan, currently the Dean at Harvard...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday to refrain from addressing the definition of an enemy combatant , an exercise which the DOJ argues...
Italian lawmakers have said they still plan to vote on legislation that would make it a crime to remove a feeding tube from a comatose patient, despite the death Monday of...
US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Monday called for a South Africa-style truth commission to investigate controversial actions by the George W. Bush administration, including justifications for the Iraq war, the treatment...
A special panel of federal judges tentatively ruled on Monday that California must reduce its prison population in order to relieve overcrowding. Based on the evidence presented, the panel concluded that overcrowding has resulted in the state's...
An Albania Supreme Court judge was shot four times outside his home in the capital Tirana, according to local police Monday. Ardian Nuni , a former law professor nominated to the high court in 2007, was...
The Mexican government published a law Monday that will create a database of mobile phone users in the country, including vital information and fingerprints, once it takes effect in April. The law, published in the...
