US District Judge Sim Lake on Monday sentenced former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling to 24 years in prison and determined that $45 million of Skilling's assets will be seized to be...
A lawyer for John W. Hinckley, Jr. argued Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia that the man who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981 should...
A court in Croatia has ordered state officials to arrest parliamentarian Branimir Glavas on suspicion of war crimes commited against Serbs, including abduction, torture and murder in the eastern city...
The interim Thailand government installed following a military coup in September indicated Monday that it will not lift martial law until supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reduce their efforts to destabilize the political...
The federal bench trial of a lawsuit challenging the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) began Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . The American Civil Liberties...
A US citizen with a Canadian wife and family who was convicted of third-degree sexual abuse began serving a plea deal Monday where he must avoid the US except to meet with his parole officer. Teacher Malcolm Watson's effective...
A lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants in the so-called Anfal trial said Monday that he will boycott the trial when it resumes on October 30 because some 1,000 pages of his documents...
Trevor Phillips , chairman of the UK Commission for Racial Equality , warned Sunday that if communication about social differences does not improve in Britain, riots could erupt there in the wake of a religious dress [JURIST...
UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel has submitted a final draft to the Lebanese government and the UN Security Council of a plans to establish an international tribunal to investigate the death of former Lebanese Prime...
Conservative radio commentator Armstrong Williams has agreed to pay the US Department of Education $34,000 after a year-long investigation of the commentator's agreement to endorse President Bush's education policies, a Department spokesperson...