A New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that a $7 billion lawsuit filed by Italian dairy giant Parmalat SpA against Citigroup could go forward on a claim that Citigroup aided...

A US military court opened an Article 32 hearing in Baghdad on Tuesday for a civilian military contractor accused of aggravated assault. Earlier this month, the US military charged Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali, a dual...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the death of dictator Pol Pot by urging the international community and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website;...

A three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments Tuesday regarding the constitutionality of a private body established by Congress to oversee accounting practices in publicly traded companies. In 2006, conservative...

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday that the court has jurisdiction to intervene in Khadr's case to...

United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co., et al., US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 [ruling that a taxpayer seeking to bring an action in federal court to obtain a tax refund must first exhaust the administrative refund claim procedures...

MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue, US Supreme Court, April 15, 2008 [overturning an Illinois state court decision allowing the state to tax a portion of the $1 billion capital gains realized by MeadWestvaco's predecessor when it sold its...

Death Sentences and Executions in 2007, Amnesty International, April 15, 2008 . Read the...

An Egyptian military court handed down its final verdict Tuesday in the military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood , sentencing 25 of the accused to prison time and...

The rule of law is a necessary prerequisite to achieving all eight of the UN's anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , UN Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in...