Hill v. McDonough, Supreme Court of the United States, June 12, 2006 [holding that a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all other appeals have been...

The new government of Nepal has ordered the release of anyone arrested or detained under an anti-terrorism law implemented by King Gyanendra , according to Nepal's Information Minister Dilendra Badu on...

Four defense witnesses in the trial of Saddam Hussein said Monday that they were coerced into testifying by the former Iraqi president's bodyguards and coached by his lead lawyer. Two of the witnesses said in confessions...

A family court judge in Reno, Nevada, was shot while standing near a courthouse window Monday, and police are searching for a sniper. Judge Chuck Weller , of the Second Judicial District Court in...

Jordanian authorities have detained four lawmakers from the Islamic Action Front (IAF) , the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood , who allegedly expressed sympathy after the death of al Qaeda Iraq leader Abu Musab...

The US Department of Justice on Monday argued in court for the first time that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program is legal. Anthony J. Coppolino, special litigation counsel for the DOJ, argued...

Fourteen of the 17 Canadian men arrested on terror charges , including five teenagers, appeared Monday in the Ontario Court of Justice , where lawyers for some of the adult suspects complained that their clients had been...

A court in Indonesia ruled Monday that the country's attorney general must reopen corruption charges against former President Suharto , saying that the charges should not have been dropped, but Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh...

Spain's National Court said Monday it would investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency used an airport on the island of Mallorca in its alleged "spider's web" of extraordinary rendition flights to transport terror suspects. The...

UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith defended the UK's court-martial system Monday, stating that the decision to prosecute four British soldiers for the drowning death of a 15-year old Iraqi boy in 2003 was not politically motivated....