Bush administration seeks to exempt Libya from state-sponsored terror lawsuits
The Bush administration has asked Congress to shield Libya from a measure in the newly-passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that would allow victims of state-sponsored terrorism to...
House panel says EPA withholding info on California emissions waiver rejection
US House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) accused the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday of withholding information from the committee and threatened to take action to compel production of the requested...
US House bill introduced to overturn EPA California emissions waiver denial
A bill that would overturn a decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny a greenhouse emissions waiver to California was introduced in the US House of Representatives [official...
EPA issues official explanation for denying California emissions waiver
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson Friday signed a notice for submission to the Federal Register explaining the agency's reasons for denying California's request for a waiver ...
EPA head urged to approve California emissions waiver: documents
Agents with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urged EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson to approve California's request for a waiver that would have allowed it to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards on cars...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, lead defense counsel for former Major Aloys Ntabakuze in the Military 1 Trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and president of the UN-ICTR Defense Lawyers Association,...
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Israeli government can continue to cut supplies of fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip , rejecting legal challenges by human rights groups that...
Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "All was not well on the morning of December 27, yet it was not so unwell either. Elections were to take place on 8th of January. Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and...
Robert L. Pugh et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, United Ststes District Court for the District of Columbia, January 15, 2008 [ruling that the Libyan government and six Libyan officials should pay more than $6 billion in damages...
Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "At 6:16 pm this evening, Pakistan lost Benazir Bhutto (BB). Plenty of individuals in this country had severe differences of opinion with her policies and politics, yet one could never imagine...
