Officials from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) said Friday that notes found in the clothes of three Guantanamo detainees who committed suicide in 2006 indicated that they were seeking martyrdom. Military investigations of the...

The Texas Third Court of Appeals has allowed money-laundering indictments to stand against two alleged co-conspirators of former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) , rejecting their argument that the state laws used to...

A US military judge in Colorado sentenced US Army Pfc. Robin Long Friday to 15 months in prison, dishonorable discharge and demotion after Long pleaded guilty to desertion with intent to remain away permanently. Long fled to...

Officials for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Friday that a Scottish judge will preside over the preparatory stages of the upcoming war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [ICTY...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision Friday that provisions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 establishing the Public Company...

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Friday abandoned a pilot program it created to allow certain illegal immigrants to coordinate their removal from the US with ICE without the risk of home...

A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California found two US Marines in contempt of court Friday after the two declined to testify against their former squad leader in a trial over...

Judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday ruled that the use of specific documents from an illegal immigrant's alien-registration file during the immigrant's criminal trial is constitutional. The issue...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that the federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA) does not provide for statutory relief for a lender's failure to conspicuously disclose certain...

Darrell Combs, Kathleen Combs v. Homer-Center School District, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 21, 2008 [ruling that a Pennsylvania law imposing reporting and curriculum review requirements on parents who home school their children does...