The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Brigham County v. Stewart , a case in which the Court will clarify the type of emergency situation required to justify a warrantless entry made by police without knocking and announcing their presence. Four police officers in Brigham County, Utah, entered a home without a [...]

A federal judge in Boston Monday dismissed a suit filed in 2004 by twelve members of the US armed forces represented by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) challenging the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy requiring them to keep their sexual orientation secret or face discharge. The case was one of first impression for [...]

Kenneth Lay , former CEO and founder of Enron , told a jury Monday that the collapse of the company in 2001 has caused him "hurt and destruction and pain" on a level that compares, he said, to “absolutely nothing in my life.” Lay and another former Enron CEO, Jeffrey Skilling , have been charged [...]

Forty-nine leftist Philippines politicians, including six current lawmakers and former Senator Gregorio Honasan , face charges of rebellion for allegedly conspiring with the Communist Party of the Philippines to kill and replace President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , officials announced Monday. According to Senior State Prosecutor Emmanual Velasco, the accused "established a tactical alliance" and conspired [...]

The jury in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui began deliberations Monday on whether to spare his life or to execute him for conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . At the close of arguments at his sentencing trial in a courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, government prosecutors told jurors they could "put an end [...]

Nepal's King Gyanendra on Monday reinstated the Nepal House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament dissolved by the then prime minister in 2002, saying that the assembly would convene on Friday. In a televised address , Gyanendra said: Convinced that the source of State Authority and Sovereignty of the Kingdom of Nepal is inherent [...]

Iraqi prosecutors Monday played in court a taped phone conversation allegedly between Saddam Hussein and co-defendant Taha Yassin Ramadan , a former vice president, where the two discussed the situation in Dujail. The voice attributed to Ramadan reported the destruction of farmland and palm groves in the village where the former leaders are accused of [...]

Australian prosecutors on Monday accused a Pakistani-born Australian immigrant of planning to bomb one of two targets in Sydney in one of the first cases to be tried under the country's new post 9/11 anti-terrorism laws . Faheem Khalid Lodhi, who immigrated to Australia in 1996, has pleaded not guilty to four charges and is [...]

Leading Monday's international brief, the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal warned the Nepal government again that international standards governing police actions during times of civil unrest must be observed as part of Nepal's international legal obligations. The statement warned that the use of live rounds and targeted rubber bullets [...]

Relatives of Polish victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre are planning to file a complaint against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights to compel the government to disclose information about the killings perpetrated by the secret police. The government of Mikhail Gorbachev admitted in 1989 that Stalin had personally ordered the secret police [...]