The US Department of Defense Monday confirmed the release and transfer to France of three French detainees in Guantanamo Bay to France "for prosecution". Mustaq Ali Patel, Ridouane Khalid and Khaled Ben Mustafa were the last three French detainees...

A military judge in Foot Hood, Texas, has refused to dismiss any remaining charges against US Army Spc. Sabrina Harman in connection with 2003 abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST Hot...

In an interview with three news agencies Monday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied renewed allegations that pursuant to an executive order issued after the September 11 attacks the CIA had flown as many as 150 terror suspects to...

The Special Court for Sierra Leone opened its final scheduled trial in Freetown Monday as outgoing chief prosecutor David Crane outlined his case against three former members of the the country's military...

The House of Lords, the upper chamber of the UK Parliament, Monday turned back by 249-119 a controversial anti-terror bill that would have permitted government ministers to issue so-called "control orders" limiting the movement or freedoms of certain terror...

Shepard v. US, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Souter, March 7, 2005 [holding that in making certain sentencing determinations, judges are confined to information in the charging document, in the terms of any plea agreement terms, or admissions...

Wilkinson v. Dotson, Supreme Court of the United States, March 7, 2005 [holding that prisoners asserting violations of their due process rights under federal civil rights laws are not required to bring a petition of habeas corpus questioning the validity...

Ballard v. Commissioner, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Ginsburg, March 7, 2005 . Excerpt:The Tax Court's practice of...

Plagued by allegations of football prospects recruited with sex and alcohol, legal action brought against the university by two women who claimed they were raped by CU football players, and a free speech controversy about Ward Churchill ,...

Former Yugoslav army general Momcilo Perisic arrived in The Hague Monday as anticipated to surrender to officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Perisic has been charged with eight counts of crimes against humanity...