The Dutch government announced after a cabinet meeting Friday that it will introduce legislation to ban the Muslim full-length burqa veil as well as other face coverings like ski masks in...

A close associate of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told AP Friday that al-Maliki was unaware of a controversial plan by Shiite Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani to arrest Sunni leader Harith...

Ex parte Jose Ernesto Medellin, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, November 17, 2006 [ruling that US President Bush "exceeded his constitutional authority by intruding into the independent powers of the judiciary" with an "unprecedented" directive ordering state court rehearings for...

The Referral Bench of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled Friday that the case of former Serbian commander Vladimir Kovacevic should be transferred to Serbia...

The US military has preliminary plans to build a new legal compound at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , where trials of detainees may begin to take place as early as June, the Miami Herald reported...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday in support of a bid by the US Department of Justice to bar terrorism suspect Majid Khan from access to a civilian lawyer unless and...

German officials have expressed some concern about the future of the proposed European Constitution in light of positions taken by two leading rivals for the French presidency. Newly-chosen French Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal [BBC...

Computer Associates is seeking repayment of legal defense costs totaling $14.9 million it fronted on behalf of former CEO Sanjay Kumar . The software maker filed suit against Kumar in New York State Supreme Court [official...

German prosecutors Friday filed an appeal for the arrest of Mounir al-Motassadeq , a German 9/11 suspect free on bail following Thursday's overturning of a lower court decision acquitting Motassadeq of assisting the...

US military Combatant Status Review Tribunals do not offer detainees at Guantanamo Bay an adequate opportunity to contest the accusations against them or to object to their status as enemy combatants ,...