Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al., v. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 30, 2008 [ruling that the US Department of the Interior unreasonably delayed the accounting of billions of...

Thousands of lawyers held rallies across Pakistan on Thursday, protesting the ouster of Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and other superior court judges last November when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule ...

Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said Thursday that he is opposed to a proposed law that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of Alabama death row inmate James Harvey Callahan "pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari." Callahan had been scheduled...

US President George W. Bush Thursday signed a 15-day extension to the temporary Protect America Act , carrying it beyond its February 1 expiration date. The Protect Act, enacted as a stopgap while Congress worked...

The Russian Supreme Court Thursday rejected an appeal to overturn a life sentence for former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for his involvement in organizing a series of contract killings....

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Thursday called for Malaysia to lift the Internal Security Act (ISA) , a preventive detention law that allows the Malaysian government to detain suspects for two years without trial...

The Zimbabwe High Court Wednesday ruled against an appeal filed by the legal team defending Simon Mann seeking to prevent Mann's extradition for trial in Equatorial Guinea. Judge Rita Makarau held that the government had...

Seven Islamic militants involved in multiple bombing attacks on a town in northwestern Bangladesh were sentenced to life in prison by a Bangladeshi court Thursday. The attacks were part of a larger bombing plot allegedly...

The US Department of Justice asked US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper Wednesday to lift a preliminary injunction restricting the US Navy's use of sonar along the coast of Southern California. President Bush granted an exemption earlier this...