The US Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it will no longer defend in court the federal excise tax on long-distance telephone calls , and will issue refunds to taxpayers of all monies...
Lawyers for former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov announced Thursday their intention to appeal to the Russian Supreme Court a Moscow City Court decision to extend Adamov's detention until June 8....
In the Matter of the Search of Rayburn House Office Building Room 2113, Washington DC, US District Court for the District of Columbia, May 21, 2006 [search warrant and supporting materials for FBI search of the congressional office of US...
Sameeh Hammoudeh, a co-defendant in a Florida terrorism case with former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian , was deported earlier this week, according to Hammoudeh's attorney. Federal officials took Hammoudeh to his...
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has said that his committee will hold an oversight hearing into the constitutionality of the FBI's 18-hour raid last Saturday night of the congressional offices of Rep....
CNN is reporting that the jury in the 16-week criminal fraud and conspiracy case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling has found both defendants guilty. Lay and Skilling were charged with multiple...
A US bankruptcy judge in New York City on Thursday declined to extend an order to block the sale of the controlling stake of Mazeikiu Nafta , the largest oil refinery owned by crippled oil company Yukos [corporate...
A panel of federal judges headed by US District Judge D. Brock Hornby of Maine has begun considering whether members of the federal bench should have their way paid to private seminars. Federal judges are currently allowed...
Belarus plans to appeal decisions by the European Union and the United States to ban Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and other top government officials from entering their jurisdictions, according to a Lukashenko...
Congress has approved and sent to President Bush for his signature a measure designed to prevent demonstrators from getting close to military funerals at national cemeteries. The US Senate approved the final version of the Respect for America's Fallen...