In Monday's environmental law news, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has announced a proposed settlement with Colonna's Shipyard Inc. for polluting the Elizabeth River. Colonnas has agreed to pay a $40,000 fine for mistakenly...
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Joseph Serugendo, the former Technical Chief of Rwanda's Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM) , nicknamed “Radio Machete” for inciting its listeners to commit murder, has been transferred to a United Nations detention facility in Tanzania [UN...
Leading Monday's international brief, UN Special Representative on the Prevention of Genocide Juan Mendez has slammed the domestic war crimes court set up in Sudan earlier this year, saying it has failed...
Leading Monday's states brief, Connecticut has became the first state to challenge the new federal Energy Policy Act , allowing the developers of power projects to appeal directly to the federal government when state officials deny or delay...
Oregon Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond heard oral arguments Monday in the latest case to challenge the constitutionality of Measure 36 , a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage approved by Oregon voters on November 2, 2004. Representing...
AP is reporting that Pfc. Lynndie England has been convicted on six of seven counts in court-martial proceedings for her role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal .4:35 PM ET - After some...
Anti-war protestor and Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House. Sheehan and dozens of other Iraq war protesters were taken into custody by police after they were warned...
Croatian journalist Marijan Krizic pleaded not guilty Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to charges that he revealed the identity of a protected witness in the Tihomir Blaskic case earlier this year. Krizic...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was acquitted of false accounting charges by an Italian court Monday. Prosecutors had charged the leader and media empire mogul with numerous counts of false accounting, including false bookkeeping charges, in connection...
The Bush administration has asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a legislative ban on late-term "partial birth" abortions, appealing a July ruling by the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis that upheld a...
