White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove refused to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday during the committee's seventh hearing on the Justice Department's firing of US Attorneys . Following President Bush's orders that White House staff not appear , Rove skipped the hearing altogether. Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [...]

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Stockwell Two: An investigation into complaints about the Metropolitan Police Service's handling of public statements following the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July 2005, Independent Police Complaints Commission, August 2, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: Currently I am a law student. In the future I want to be a lawyer — that is, employed as a lawyer. There are a lot of voices, however, including my school's career services department, telling me the difficulty in this. Too many want to be lawyers, [...]

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The Bangladeshi Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed can be detained and prosecuted under emergency laws declared by the interim emergency government, overturning the High Court Division's Monday ruling that suspended Hasina's extortion trial . Hasina's lawyers had argued that she cannot be charged under the [...]

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The High Court of Australia upheld an interim control order against Joseph Terrence Thomas Thursday, accepting the government's argument and ruling that the control order provision of a controversial anti-terror law is constitutional because it is supported by the government's "defense power" . Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock welcomed the ruling, saying on ABC Radio [...]

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