The Guatemalan Congress voted to restore the death penalty Tuesday, passing a bill that ends a six-year moratorium on executions imposed by the Constitutional Court in 2002. Under the new law,...

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Office of Administration, US District Court for the District of Columbia, February 11, 2008 [permitting Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics to conduct only very limited discovery in its missing e-mail case against...

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Tuesday defended the use of harsh physical interrogation techniques, saying in an interview with Law in Action on BBC Radio 4 that they may be justified to...

US Senate Democrats announced their continued support Tuesday for a US Sentencing Commission decision to give retroactive effect to sentencing guidelines that would narrow the disparity between sentences for offenses involving powder and crack cocaine,...

Shi'ite and Sunni lawmakers walked out of Iraq's parliament Tuesday, prompting speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani to threaten to disband the legislature. The walkout was sparked by divisions between Kurdish and other lawmakers over...

China, Russia and Canada are the main violators of US copyright law, according to report issued Monday by a US-based industry group. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a consortium of seven trade associations representing 1,900 US...

The US Senate voted 69-29 Tuesday in favor of a cloture motion limiting further debate on a bill which would provide immunity for telecommunications companies from lawsuits related to their...

The Wayne County Employees' Retirement System (WCERS) on Monday filed a complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery challenging the decision of the Yahoo! board of directors to repudiate an unsolicited takeover offer...

Rwandan defense investigator Leonidas Nshogoza pleaded not guilty Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to charges of contempt and attempted contempt of the ICTR. Nshogoza was arrested in June 2007 for...

South African Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula on Tuesday introduced in parliament a proposal to dissolve the Directorate of Special Investigations , also known as "The Scorpions," a special agency in South Africa's...