A pro-government Harare paper said Wednesday that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe told reporters that special UN envoy Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka confessed to him that she was under pressure to produce an unfavorable report on the 6-week government ordered demolition of illegal homes and businesses in the nation, also known as "Operation Murambatsvina" or (in English) [...]

US Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman will go before a general court-martial at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Thursday on charges of desertion and missing movement after he failed to report for his unit's deployment flight to Iraq on January 7. In April, the Army denied Benderman's application for Conscientious Objector status , a move that would have [...]

Updating a story previously reported in JURIST's Paper Chase, police in south London's Stockwell area arrested three women late Wednesday for allegedly harboring several suspects in last week's failed London bomb attacks . Reuters has more.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Wednesday that notwithstanding White House warnings, Democrats plan to request additional legal writings by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, including work he produced during his tenure as principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush's administration. The White House said earlier this week that any work Roberts produced during [...]

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has announced that the SEC approved a new rule requiring firms to better inform clients about non-managed fee-based accounts (NMFBA). NYSE Rule 405(A) forces all companies traded on the NYSE to provide clients with information about different NMFBA programs available before the [...]

Leading Wednesday's states brief, the California Supreme Court today overturned a lower court and ordered that state voters will be given the opportunity to vote on Proposition 80 during a November 8th special election to decide whether California should reregulate its power market. The Independent Energy Producers Association had filed a lawsuit seeking to remove [...]

Police in Britain have confirmed that Yasin Hassan Omar, a Somali citizen with British residency, was among four men arrested when he was subdued with a stun gun after officers raided a home in Birmingham early Wednesday morning. Authorities said the 24-year-old Omar, a suspect in the failed July 21 bombing attacks , was being [...]

US Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has hinted that he might not support Timothy Flanigan, President Bush's pick for Deputy Attorney General, if Flanigan is not willing to allow proper Congressional oversight of his role. Flanigan, formerly Deputy Counsel to the President and Alberto Gonzales' number two when he was at the White House, [...]

A French court Wednesday found 13 individuals and companies in the Mont Blanc tunnel disaster trial guilty of manslaughter, with former French head of tunnel security Gerard Roncoli receiving a six month prison sentence. Gilbert Degrave, the driver whose truck ignited the deadly March 1999 fire that killed 39 people, received a four month suspended [...]

The former warden of Abu Ghraib prison , Maj. David Dinenna, testified at a preliminary hearing on Wednesday for two Army dog handlers accused of using the animals to abuse detainees that the US Department of Defense sent trainers to the prison to teach soldiers how to use dogs in interrogations. His testimony bolstered defense [...]