A US magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that US Department of Justice employees must disclose whether they were aware of the government monitoring conversations between Sept. 11 detainees and their attorneys. The judge's ruling comes in a lawsuit...
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Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic died of natural causes on March 11 when guards found him dead in his prison cell at the detention center for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial on Wednesday accused a prosecution witness of perjury and urged chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman to stop proceedings at the Iraqi High Criminal Court to investigate the credibility...
Garcetti v. Ceballos, Supreme Court of the United States, May 30, 2006 [holding that First Amendment protections do not extend to government employees for comments made while performing their official duties, even when the employee is acting to expose alleged...
A Jordanian court on Tuesday convicted the editors of two national newspapers and sentenced them to two months' imprisonment for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that incited protests and violence across the Muslim world earlier...
European Parliament v. Council of the European Union, European Court of Justice, May 30, 2006 [ruling that an agreement between the European Union and the US that compels European airlines to disclose information about passengers flying from Europe to the...
Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, signed by President George W. Bush, May 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice argued in a federal court filing Tuesday that the government has no legal obligation to return documents seized by the FBI from the office of Rep. William Jefferson...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said Tuesday that the Iraqi government will launch its own probe into the allegations that US Marines killed two dozen Iraqi civilians and militants in the city of Haditha in November 2005....
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to fast-track the state's appeal of a lower court ruling striking down a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Oral arguments are...
