Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said Thursday that he and his Cabinet will resign after the country's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that rejected reforms to the justice system...
Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will retry ex-Bank of America broker Theodore Sihpol. Sihpol was acquitted on 29 counts of fraud-related charges last month , but the jury...
Leading Thursday's states brief, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today that interrogations of juvenile prisoners must be electronically recorded. In reversing a 2003 Court of Appeals decision the court stated that recording the interrogations by videotape...
An intellectual property infringement lawsuit by SCO Group against IBM will not go to trial until February 26, 2007, over two years later than originally scheduled. US District Judge Dale Kimball rescheduled the...
Hassan al-Turabi , a Sudanese Islamist leader freed last week after a 15-month detention in connection with an alleged coup plot, has spoke out against the country's Sudan's new constitution . He called the committee...
Military judge Col. James Pohl has declined a request by lawyers for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England to step down from her Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case. Defense lawyers claimed that Pohl...
Bearing in mind the experience of Muslims in the United States after 9/11, the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission has urged UK Muslims to stay indoors to avoid being targeted for revenge in the wake of Thursday's...
Leading Senate Democrats said Thursday that although they appreciate the phone calls from the Bush administration following the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor , they want to know exactly who President Bush is considering as a replacement...
Leading Thursday's international brief, a Peruvian judge has ordered the arrest of 118 current and retired military officers for their alleged involvement in a 1988 attack against the Andean village of Cayara , in which soldiers allegedly...
A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that there was "no evidence" of widespread abuse of prisoners by medical personnel at Guantanamo, denying earlier media reports . Accusations of physical abuse had followed criticism about use of detainees' medical records...