UK security officials should speak out against foreign security forces using torture
Andy Hull : "Both the UK's domestic Security Service (MI5) and its overseas Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) are being investigated by London's Metropolitan Police to see if British agents have been complicit in...
United States v James Tobin, US District Court for the District of New Hampshire, February 21, 2008 [acquitting a former Bush campaign staffer of federal telephone harassment charges for his alleged role in a 2002 Democratic vote drive phone-jamming scheme...
Bush campaigner acquitted in New Hampshire phone jamming case
James Tobin , President Bush's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, was acquitted Thursday of federal telephone harassment charges for his alleged role in a 2002 phone-jamming scheme. In his ruling Thursday, US District Judge Steven...
Pakistan police arrest US rights activists pressing for top lawyer's release
Pakistani police acting at the direction of what one official called "higher ups" arrested two American human rights activists in Lahore Tuesday, according to AP. Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry are members of the US-based human rights...
Tyco $3.2 billion shareholder settlement gets preliminary court approval
A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $3.2 billion settlement agreement between Tyco International , Tyco's former auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers , and investors who were harmed by fraudulent accounting practices orchestrated...
Tyco International said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to settle most of the class actions pending against it by investors who were harmed by the actions of the company's former...
A Pakistani citizen who says he has been detained in a secret facility for 18 months in connection with the CIA's extraordinary rendition program will challenge his detention in the Pakistani Supreme Court, Amnesty International (AI)...
Weinstein v. USAF, US District Court for the District of New Mexico, October 28, 2006 [ruling dismissing case alleging religious intolerance at the US Air Force Academy because the cadets could not give specific examples of when cadets were harmed...
Federal judge dismisses religious intolerance lawsuit against USAF Academy
A federal judge Friday rejected a claim by US Air Force Academy graduates that a military chaplain illegally forced Christianity on them . US District Judge James A. Parker dismissed the case because the...
UN report calls for common definition of trade ban principle
A UN report released Thursday urges countries to develop a common understanding of the "precautionary principle," a term freely used by nations that do not want to allow certain trade products to enter their borders on health...
