A judge on one of Pakistan's anti-corruption Accountability Courts Tuesday dismissed charges against former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto following her December 27 assassination . Charges that Bhutto possessed assets beyond...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to step up deportation of illegal immigrants serving time in US prisons and jails during 2008, ICE Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers said in an interview published Tuesday...
Norway has agreed to extradite an unnamed Croatian citizen wanted for his alleged involvement in the 1991 Vukovar massacre to Serbia to face war crimes charges, Norwegian officials said Tuesday. Croatia...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that fraud claims by investors are not permitted against third parties that did not directly mislead those investors. In Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. [Duke Law...
Four ethnic Russian Estonians accused of taking part in violence that occurred last year during the removal of a Red Army war memorial in Tallinn went on trial in Estonia Monday. The violence occurred last April when Estonia removed...
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers , will probably head the new UK Supreme Court when it opens in 2009, the Times reported Monday. The new top court,...
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the clandestine branch of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , will not appear at a closed...
Investigating judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) met with former low-level Khmer Rouge members Tuesday in an effort to secure their cooperation with the court's mission. ECCC judges assured the former Khmer...
Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) members said Monday that Pakistan's lawyers will relax their ongoing boycott of the post-emergency judiciary to Thursday of every week and one hour of every day, because the backlog caused...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in the case of Virginia v. Moore , 06-1082, where the Court is being asked to decide whether the Fourth Amendment...