US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that the use of foreign law in US Supreme Court opinions is "anti-democratic" and "unworkable." In a speech given at George Mason University Law School, Gonzales...
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An argumentative Saddam Hussein pleaded not guilty Wednesday as he and seven co-defendants from the defunct Baath Party went on trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal , also known as the Iraqi High...
Common Cause/Georgia v. Billups, US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, October 18, 2005 . Read the...
The final results from the referendum on the draft Iraqi constitution will be postponed until Friday at the earliest due to transportation delays and audits being performed because of voting inconsistencies in some provinces, according to...
Members of the Independent Inquiry Committee created to investigate the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme discussed their findings and recommendations with the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in testimony...
A Chilean judge Tuesday asked that former president Augusto Pinochet be stripped of his immunity from prosecution on embezzlement charges. In his last action before joining the Chilean Supreme Court, Judge Sergio Munoz, who...
Khalil Dulaimi, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , announced Tuesday that he plans to ask the Iraqi Special Tribunal for an immediate three-month adjournment in the first trial against Hussein so the...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Leandro Despouy Tuesday expressed doubts about the fairness of Uzbekistan's ongoing trial of 15 alleged rebels accused of precipitating the violent May uprising in the town of...
New York Times reporter Judith Miller , recently released from an 85-day prison term for contempt after refusing to testify about her sources to a grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame leak, announced Tuesday...
Geoffrey Nice, the lawyer prosecuting former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , on Tuesday voiced his concern that the trial against the deposed leader [JURIST news...
