US Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine has forwarded a request to investigate President Bushs authorization of National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping on US residents to the Departments Office of Professional Responsibility, citing...
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DOJ, DOD watchdogs pass up probes of NSA spying program
Death penalty sentencing factors ruling [US SC]
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Iraqi Shiite leader balks at major changes to constitution
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Supreme Court considers standard of review for new evidence in murder case
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UN names former Belgian prosecutor as new chief of Hariri probe
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Yemen indictee boycotting reconvened Guantanamo tribunal
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Would-be Bush assassin gets life sentence in Georgian Republic
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Argentina judge sending Serb war crimes suspect to Hague tribunal
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Families of deported Cubans challenge US landing rule
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Chile court upholds Pinochet bail in one case, removes immunity in another
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Brown v. Sanders, Supreme Court of the United States, January 11, 2006 . Read the Court's opinion...
Abdul Aziz Hakim , leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the countrys most powerful Shiite politician, said Wednesday that a new Iraqi government dominated by religious Shiites elected in the December 15 parliamentary...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in House v. Bell , where it will decide whether appellant Paul Gregory House, who was convicted and sentenced to death...
The UN Wednesday officially named Serge Brammertz , Deputy Prosecutor with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a former Belgian federal prosecutor, as the new Commissioner of the ongoing UN investigation into the February 2005 assassination...
A Yemeni man alleged to have been an al Qaeda propagandist and security officer for Osama bin Laden told a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday that he was boycotting the just-reconvened proceedings ....
A man from the Georgian Republic who lobbed a grenade toward US President George W. Bush while he was on a visit there in May last year was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday by a Georgian court. Vladimir...
Argentine judge Jorge Urso has decided to send accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Milan Lukic, arrested in Buenos Aires in August, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for trial,...
The families of fifteen Cubans deported when they failed to reach US soil have filed suit in US District Court, claiming that the US government's so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy is inconsistent with US and international law. The fifteen Cubans...
The 23-member Santiago Appeals Court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling granting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bail, but at the same time stripped him of immunity an additional human rights case,...
