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...
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US soldier deported from Canada sentenced to prison for desertion
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ICTY assigns Scottish judge to oversee Karadzic war crimes trial preparations
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DC Circuit rules Sarbanes-Oxley board provisions constitutional
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US immigration authority abandons voluntary deportation program
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Two US Marines held in contempt in Fallujah killings civil trial
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Seventh Circuit rules use of immigrant documents in criminal trials constitutional
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Ninth Circuit rules subprime borrower due no damages for lender disclosure failures
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Pennsylvania home schooling requirement ruling [3rd Circuit]
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Russian court denies early release for former Yukos Oil executive
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Cambodia prosecutors seek added charges against Khmer Rouge leader
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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...
A Russian court on Friday rejected an application for parole made by former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who applied for early release from Krasnokamensk penal colony in July. Khodorkovsky headed the...
Prosecutors before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday appealed the indictment of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav , also known as "Duch," saying it...
