Flaws and inadequate computer security at the Internal Revenue Service has left the personal information of millions of taxpayers open to potential theft and illegal access, according to a Government Accountability Office report issued Monday....

JTF-Gitmo Information on Detainees, US Department of Defense, March 4, 2005. Excerpt:The US Government currently maintains custody of approximately 550 enemy combatants in the Global War on Terrorism at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many of these enemy combatants are highly trained,...

Zacarias Moussaoui has notified the government that he will plead guilty to his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks if a judge finds him mentally competent, the Washington Post reported Tuesday [Post report,...

A jury on Monday found no wrongdoing by investment firm Alliance Capital when it invested Florida state employee pension funds in plunging Enron stock, ultimately losing $280 million. The jury found against the Florida State Board of...

The Ecuadorian Congress will debate Tuesday whether to begin impeachment proceedings against embattled President Lucio Gutierrez . Gutierrez has come under fire for dissolving the Ecuador Supreme Court last December and stacking the court...

Pushing for Serbian membership in the European Union by 2010, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus said Monday that Serbia has issued arrest warrants for suspects indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official...

The Moscow Arbitration Court has frozen the main assets of Russian oil company Yukos as part of an $11 billion lawsuit against Yukos brought by Rosneft , the state...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, April 18.The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first, Bradshaw...

Emil Alperin et al. v. Vatican Bank, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, April 19, 2005 [ruling that claims made by Eastern European survivors of the Holocaust against gold and other holdings of the World War II...

Citing allegedly unfair rulings by a US District Court judge Barbara Jones, former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers , convicted in March of orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud that led to the telecommunications giant's downfall,...