The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office said Tuesday that it has asked the United States to release five Guantanamo Bay detainees who were legal residents in the UK prior to their detention. The Foreign Office...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard arguments Monday from defense lawyers representing three former Enron Broadband Services executives who are seeking the dismissal of remaining charges after a jury failed...
A federal judge Monday overturned a $1.52 billion jury decision against Microsoft awarded after the jury found that Microsoft violated two digital music patents held by Alcatel-Lucent . The patents govern technology that...
Iranian 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi requested the assistance of the UN Human Rights Council to end Iran's "arbitrary detention" of Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari [WWC...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard arguments Monday in an appeal by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company against a lower court ruling last August which declared unenforceable a provision in...
A Thai court Monday released on bail six leaders of the July 22 anti-coup protest with the condition that they would not engage in activities that may increase "strife within society" or instigate violence. The defendants, anti-coup academics and...
Protect America Act of 2007, passed by the US Senate and House of Representatives and signed into law by President George W. Bush, August 6, 2007 . Read...
2007 Enacted State Legislation Related to Immigrants and Immigration, National Conference of State Legislatures, August 6, 2007 [finding that state legislatures across the United States have enacted at least 170 immigration-related bills in 2007 as a result of the "continued...
The Moscow City Court has convicted former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for his involvement in organizing a series of contract killings, sentencing Pichugin to life in prison Monday for organizing three...
Five Iraqi Cabinet ministers belonging to the secular and nonsectarian Iraqi National List announced a boycott of government meetings Monday, saying the coalition has decided to suspend its government participation because Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has...
