US v. Adham Amin Hassoun et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, November 17, 2005 [indictment against alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla and others, charging Padilla with conspiracy to murder US nationals, conspiracy to provide...

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, new water pollution standards designed to protect the Chesapeake Bay went into effect Monday. The Virginia regulations establish new limits on the levels of nitrogen and phosphorus that can be discharged by municipal sewage...

US Rep. Tom DeLay on Tuesday asked a Texas judge to dismiss the felony conspiracy charges against him. Senior Judge Pat Priest refused to make an immediate ruling on the case, saying he wanted...

Following the latest delay in the Slobodan Milosevic war crimes trial, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ) said Tuesday that it has ordered a hearing on November 29 to...

Leaders of the Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to amend the military clause in the country's pacifist constitution in an effort to create armed forces that are assertive on an international...

Iraq Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has again denied that he controls death squads targeting Iraq's Sunni minority and ordered the torture of detainees in a secret prison . In a New York Times...

Prison officials at Russia's Krasnokamensk penitentiary, which is holding jailed oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky , is deliberately hampering the work of his defense lawyers, according to a statement Tuesday on Khodorkovsky's defense website....

An advisor to the European Union's highest court, the European Court of Justice , advised the body Tuesday that sharing airline passenger data with the US should be declared illegal . Advocate General Philippe Leger said...

Conrad Black , the media tycoon and former chairman of Hollinger International recently indicted on criminal fraud charges failed to appear for his arraignment in a Chicago courtroom Tuesday. The arraignment was delayed until November 30...

Austrian prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against British historian David Irving , who was arrested last week for violating an Austrian law making it illegal to deny the Holocaust. Prosecutor Otto Schneider said, "A charge was filed...