Honduran President Manuel Zelaya rejected a Supreme Court decision Thursday that called for the reinstatement of a military general whom Zelaya fired Wednesday. Zelaya's decision comes amidst a controversy over a referendum on...
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A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday set the corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich for June 3, 2010. Lawyers for two aids indicted...
Self-exiled Russian business tycoon Boris Berezovsky was found guilty of fraud in absentia Thursday by a Moscow regional court. The court found that Berezovsky and his business associate Yuli Dubov embezzled...
Billionaire financier Allen Stanford pleaded not guilty Thursday to 21 charges of fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas but remained in prison overnight....
The Russian Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the retrial of three men acquitted of involvement in the 2006 shooting death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The court vacated the...
Safford Unified School District # 1, et al. v. Redding, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [ruling that a strip search of a school student violated her Fourth Amendment rights but that school officials who conducted the search are protected...
Atlantic Sounding v. Townsend, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [holding that an injured seaman may recover punitive damages for the willful failure of his employer to pay a basic living allowance, wages that he otherwise would have earned, and...
Horne v. Flores, et al., US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [holding that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in declining to modify an injunction requiring Arizona to provide sufficient funding for its English Language Learners...
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more...
The Spanish Congress of Deputies voted 341-2 Thursday to limit use of the country's universal jurisdiction statute to those offenses committed by or against Spaniards, or...
