A court in the central Asian republic of Georgia , formerly part of the old Soviet Union, has sentenced 12 opposition activists to prison terms of up to eight-and-a-half years for participating in an alleged coup plot to...
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The Alabama Attorney General's office said Friday that Attorney General Troy King would try to prevent the early release from a Maryland state prison of Arthur Bremer , the man who shot ex-Alabama Governor...
The Liberian Supreme Court ruled Friday that former interim Liberian President Gyude Bryant can stand trial on embezzlement charges. Bryant was charged in February with embezzling $1.3 million during his tenure from October 2003 until...
US Bankruptcy Judge Louise DeCarl Adler ordered 42 clergy sex abuse cases against the Catholic Diocese of San Diego to go to trial Friday, accepting arguments by plaintiffs lawyers that the move could push pressure on the...
Pakistan Muslim League and Nawaz Sharif v. Federation of Pakistan, Supreme Court of Pakistan, August 23, 2007 [ruling that former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can return to the country, effectively ending the 10-year exile imposed after Sharif was deposed...
Center for Biological Diversity v. Dr. William Brennan, US District Court for the Northern District of California, August 21, 2007 . Read...
Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the 400th execution in Texas, August 21, 2007 [urging Texas Gov. Rick Perry to halt all executions in the state and to consider introducing a moratorium on death sentences...
A judge on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court said in an order released Friday that the court would consider what she called an "unprecedented" ACLU motion [PDF text;...
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees to 17 years in prison each for serving as mercenaries in Afghanistan. Mukit Vokhidov and Rukhiddin Sharopov crossed to Afghanistan in 2001 as members of the al...
A spokesman for US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reacted coolly Friday to a White House bid to extend until after Labor Day the deadline for compliance with committee subpoenas [JURIST report; subpoena packets,...
