Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday that the court has jurisdiction to intervene in Khadr's case to...

United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co., et al., US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 [ruling that a taxpayer seeking to bring an action in federal court to obtain a tax refund must first exhaust the administrative refund claim procedures...

MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue, US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 [overturning an Illinois state court decision allowing the state to tax a portion of the $1 billion capital gains realized by MeadWestvaco's predecessor when it sold its...

Death Sentences and Executions in 2007, Amnesty International, April 15, 2008 . Read the...

An Egyptian military court handed down its final verdict Tuesday in the military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood , sentencing 25 of the accused to prison time and...

The rule of law is a necessary prerequisite to achieving all eight of the UN's anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , UN Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two tax cases Tuesday, including MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue , where the Court overturned an Illinois state court decision...

China has disciplined nearly 3,000 people and imposed criminal penalties on over 530 more for their involvement in illegal land seizures, an official from the Chinese Law Enforcement and Supervision Bureau under the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources...

Myanmar's military government has arrested more than 20 peaceful demonstrators protesting the scheduled May 10 national constitutional referendum , the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said Tuesday. The NLD also said that government security forces have detained...

The National Assembly of Pakistan unanimously adopted a resolution late Monday calling for a United Nations investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . The resolution now goes to...