President Bush on Wednesday said he was "troubled" by what he called a lack of straightforward communication between the US Justice Department and Congress regarding the firings last year of eight US Attorneys that may have been politically motivated . Speaking at a news conference in Mexico, Bush nonetheless said he continued to have confidence [...]
Thirty-one Egyptian women have been appointed as judges despite ongoing resistance from the nation's conservative Muslims, according to a decree published Wednesday by the head of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council . Council chief Mukbil Shakir selected the judges from a pool of state prosecutors who had passed a test for the positions, though it is [...]
Texas lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill to rescind a landmark executive order by Governor Rick Perry (R) requiring that school-age girls receive a vaccine against cervical cancer. The Texas House of Representatives approved the bill by a margin of 118-23, garnering enough votes to override a potential veto. The Public Health Committee of the [...]
Jury selection began in Chicago Wednesday in the US federal trial of Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black , the former chairman of media company Hollinger International – now Sun-Times Media Group Inc. – who faces 17 counts of fraud, obstruction of justice, racketeering and tax evasion related to the $2.1 billion sale of several hundred [...]
Giovanni Di Stefano : "The defence counsel team for Taha Ramadan have filed with the IHT the appeal in the re-sentencing of Mr Ramadan which substituted life imprisonment to that of the death sentence. I have also taken the steps at requesting President Talabani under the extenuating circumstances to commute the sentence of death to [...]
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled against granting medical marijuana plaintiff Angel Raich injunctive relief preventing federal law enforcement officials from enforcing the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) against her. Raich suffers from scoliosis, a brain tumour, chronic nausea and other ailments that have not responded to conventional medical treatment. In [...]
US President George W. Bush vowed Wednesday to increase efforts to reform US immigration laws and crack down on illegal drug trafficking during a press conference in Merida, Mexico, with new Mexican President Felipe Calderon . Bush pledged to work with lawmakers across party lines, but noted that immigration issues are sensitive and can inflame [...]
A California state judge on Wednesday dropped the felony charges against four defendants in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) pretexting scandal after the defendants pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of fraudulent wire communications and agreed to complete 96 hours of community service and pay restitution by September. The four defendants, including former HP CEO Patricia Dunn [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday held Sudan liable in the 2000 al-Qaeda bombing of the USS Cole , and moved the civil trial of a suit brought by families of seventeen US sailors killed in the bombing to the damages phase. AP quoted US District Judge Robert Doumar of the US District Court for the [...]
Lawyers boycotted courts across Pakistan Wednesday for a third day in a continued effort to protest Friday's suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for unspecified misconduct. The nationwide strike by Pakistani lawyers was coupled with rallies held in Karachi and other urban centers. Pakistan Bar Council President Qazi Anwar told AFP that starting Thursday [...]
