A Russian court in Moscow has ordered that the financial assets of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev be seized to pay alleged back taxes and fines for the Yukos oil company. Yukos [corporate...

US Army Corrections System: Procedures for Military Executions, US Army, January 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the regulations . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

What American Intelligence and Especially the NSA have been Doing to Defend the Nation, National Press Club, Deputy Director of National Intelligence General Michael Hayden, January 23, 2006 . Read...

The US Army has issued new regulations governing the military death penalty . What the Army is calling a "major revision", however, raises questions whether the military is considering its first execution since 1961, when Army...

Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney indicted last October in the CIA leak case , petitioned Monday to use classified evidence in his...

Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission, Supreme Court of the United States, January 23, 2006 [ruling remanding case to the US DC District Court to reexamine whether the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 violates the First...

A federal judge Monday overturned as unconstitutional a Louisiana law that would have moved the state's congressional primary from November to October. Louisiana passed the legislation under the impetus of its "open primary" system that allows all candidates...

A European Union spokesman said Monday that Turkey's action in dropping charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk for "insulting Turkishness" was "good news". EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn cautioned,...

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Bernetta D. Bush Monday approved a $20 million final settlement in a class action suit against newspaper publishing giant Hollinger International Inc. . Advertisers brought the suit claiming they had been defrauded by...

The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to reconsider a federal court ruling that the BlackBerry , the hand-held internet and email device from Research in Motion (RIM) , violated existing patent rights. Last August,...