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The Law Lords , the judicial panel of the UK House of Lords that is Britain's highest court, Wednesday dismissed appeals brought by anti-war protesters who argued that under the Criminal Law Act 1967...

Lawyers asked the UK law lords on Monday to allow anti-war activists convicted on trespassing charges related to protests of the Iraq war to argue in their defense that the war was illegal. Fourteen Greenpeace protesters were convicted...

Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, Judge John Suddock of the Alaska Superior Court has ruled that owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline have been overcharging in-state refineries for crude oil transport. The ruling upholds a...

The Federation Council , Russia's upper house of parliament, voted 152-1 Tuesday for a bill first approved by the lower house last month that greatly increases state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by implementing strict registration...

US District Judge James Robertson , one of 11 members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) , has resigned in protest over the National Security Agency's secret domestic surveillance program , according to a report...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that possible amendments to a bill regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country be drafted within the next five days. The NGO proposal, approved by the Duma in November ,...

In the wake of a lawsuit from groups including the ACLU and Greenpeace , the US Department of Justice has admitted that the FBI has thousands of pages of records on file...

In Tuesday's environmental law news, Greenpeace, the international environmental activist group, was allowed to speak for the first time Tuesday before the UN General Assembly. Today is the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Convention...