US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials accused of politicizing the hiring process will likely not face criminal prosecution, Attorney General Michael Mukasey told members of the American Bar Association on Tuesday. Mukasey criticized [prepared remarks;...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to rule on whether Exxon Mobil owes interest on a punitive damages award entered against it for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill...

The US Coast Guard on Wednesday resumed its investigatory hearings into a collision between a barge and a tanker which caused the spilling of approximately 400,000 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River on...

JURIST] The office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the organization has found significant evidence that Indian peacekeeping troops have committed sex-crimes while stationed with the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday reached a settlement agreement in a federal class action suit brought by two pro-immigration advocacy groups seeking to force the government to rule on the naturalization...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration which was brought by Valerie Plame , the former Central Intelligence Agency...

United States of America v. Robert Ray Burnett Goddard, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 11, 2008 [ruling that parole restrictions on computer and PO Box use by individuals convicted of child pornography offenses were reasonable as...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a state ban on smoking in public restaurants and bars in Bavaria. The Bavarian ban is the strictest in the nation,...

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week denied a request made by six ethnic Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be transferred to less restrictive facilities within...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Monday that computer and PO box use restrictions placed on those convicted of child pornography offenses are reasonable as long as they...