Mark Thatcher , the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been fined 3 million rand ($500,000) by a court in South Africa in connection with his role in a plot to overthrow the...
US Army Spc. Charles Graner may take the witness stand in his own defense Thursday on the second day of the defense case in his court-martial at Fort Hood TX for abusing Iraqi detainees...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, January 13.Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer will discuss the relevance of foreign law for American constitutional adjudication at a forum...
Jama v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Supreme Court of the United States, January 12, 2005, [ruling that a refugee living in the US could be deported after receiving a criminal conviction, even if their country of destination does not consent...
Clark v. Martinez, Supreme Court of the United States, January 12, 2005, [ruling that US can hold an illegal immigrant subject to a deportation order who could not be returned to his or her home country for only "so long...
Addressing a Russian court Wednesday, former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky called the tax fraud against him and the oil company "inventions" and said that Russian investigators had removed "uncomfortable" documentation in the case. During his...
Lawyers for the parents of Terry Schiavo , the brain damaged woman at the center of a long running right-to-die dispute, asked a Florida appeals court Wednesday to reconsider its decision not to grant a new trial in...
US Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Hemann has recommended that a federal district judge enter a default judgment against PricewaterhouseCoopers for the company's failure to turn over documents and other evidence in an accounting fraud suit brought by...
In anticipation of a run for governor by Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly , the Massachusetts Republican Party has pre-emptively registered website addresses that Reilly could have used as a campaign website. Despite the fact that...
United States v. Booker, Supreme Court of the United States, January 12, 2005 [applying Blakely v. Washington and holding that the federal sentencing guidelines are subject to the Sixth Amendment and that the current guidelines under which judges can impose...