The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not improperly enter into consent agreements with "animal feeding operations" (AFOs). Several community and...

The US Department of Justice's Corporate Fraud Task Force has obtained 1,236 corporate fraud convictions since its establishment five years ago, and has obtained more than one billion dollars in fines and restitutions, the DOJ...

A prominent Russian lawyer and government critic was accused Tuesday of disclosing state secrets about government wiretapping to the Russian Constitutional Court . Boris Kuznetsov fled the country recently after a city court...

US District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Tuesday that prosecutors had produced enough evidence in the trial of Jose Padilla and his co-defendants that the case should go to a jury, rejecting a motion for acquittal filed...

The Bosnian war crimes tribunal Tuesday sentenced a Bosnian Muslim to 30 years in prison for war crimes committed against Serbs in the 1992 - 1995 civil war . Niset Ramic received the longest sentence yet...

French Justice Minister Rachida Dati pressed a bill to toughen the country's criminal code in an appearance before the National Assembly Tuesday. The bill, which fulfills a campaign...

A suicide bomber struck a lawyers' protest over the ousting of suspended Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in Islamabad Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding at least 40. Chaudhry was...

Sources close to Libya's Supreme Judiciary Council told the Associated Press Tuesday that the death sentences of six foreign medics accused of knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients with the HIV virus have been...

Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal Tuesday upheld a 2006 lower court ruling that invalidated a law targeting public homosexual sodomy , ruling that the law's specific focus against homosexual sodomy is unconstitutional,...

Some members of the European Parliament criticized Swiss Senator Dick Marty Tuesday for failing to cite sources in his June report to the Parliamentary Assembly of the...