Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, have denied that they are trying to derail the prosecution in the CIA leak case by requesting access to classified government material. Last month, Libby's defense team requested the use of classified evidence and in a brief filed in federal [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down decisions in four cases, including Dolan v. U.S. Postal Service , where the Court ruled that a Pennsylvania woman could sue the US Postal Service for injuries she sustained after slipping on a pile of mail that was left on her porch rather than in her mail [...]
A federal judge in California has issued a preliminary injunction against search engine company Google , requiring the company to remove images from its image search service that violate the copyrights of adult entertainment media company Perfect 10. The court found that Google violated Perfect 10's copyrights by displaying small "thumbnail" versions of digital images [...]
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma , Wednesday gave critical second-reading approval to an expansive anti-terror bill which would grant a broad range of new counter-terrorism powers to law enforcement and the military. The Duma vote on the draft law was 408-1, with five abstentions. If passed, the law will allow [...]
A federal judge has granted a request by defense attorneys that sentencing for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , convicted in November of last year for joining al Qaeda and conspiring to assassinate President Bush, be delayed until March 9 so that prosecutors have time to file a sworn declaration revealing whether or not evidence used [...]
A French court has ordered the three acquitted photographers who pursued Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed's car the night of their fatal crash in 1997 to pay one euro in damages for invasion of privacy. In a decision made public Wednesday, the court ordered the symbolic fine to be split three ways and paid [...]
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday again asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to answer his request for provisional release to travel to Russia for medical care. Milosevic suffers from high blood pressure and a heart condition and was granted a limited adjournment in December before the trial again resumed [...]
Nearly 100 detainees have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to findings of the US rights group Human Rights First initially reported Tuesday evening on BBC television's Newsnight program . The program claimed that at least 98 prisoners have died as a result of detainment or interrogation with 34 [...]
Carla del Ponte , chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , said Wednesday that Serbian government officials had told her that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has not been arrested. Serbian media reported Tuesday that the former general had been arrested , but the Serbian government quickly denied the reports [...]
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Israeli attorney Eran Shahar, representing Civil Coalition (CC), a civil rights group, has filed a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the German Constitutional Court on charges of incitement and denying the existence of the World War II Holocaust . Shahar told reporters that Germany was the best place for [...]
