Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005, US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, May 22, 2006 [reporting that the US prison and jail population added nearly 2.2 million people from mid-2004 to mid-2005 at a rate of 2.6...

Jury deliberations began Monday in the retrial of two former Enron executives from the fallen company's broadband department. Former CFO Kevin Howard and senior accounting director Michael Krautz are being retried...

Bushra Khalil, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Monday that she believes Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the Kurdish judge presiding over Hussein's trial , is harsher on her than other lawyers because...

Legal experts with the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have questioned the credibility of some of the Cambodian judges who have been approved to serve on a war crimes tribunal that will hear cases against...

The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs is reportedly preparing a document that recommends a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly inciting genocide with anti-Israel remarks . A group of Israeli...

The South Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) on Monday rejected an appeal of its antitrust decision against Microsoft . In December, the KFTC issued a preliminary ruling that...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC will wait for a Nigerian appeals court ruling rather than pay a $1.5 billion judgment to compensate ethnic communities in Nigeria for pollution from its operations. A company spokesman said paying...

A federal grand jury in Ohio on Monday indicted seven former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises on charges of conspiracy, fraud, and promotion of money laundering. The seven former executives of the...

US oil companies did not illegally manipulate gasoline prices or restrain supply last year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina , according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report released Monday....

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has denied prosecutors' request to transfer the trial of Rwandan genocide suspect Michel Bagaragaza to Norway because Norway does not have a specific law against...