The American Civil Liberties Union has announced that it will file a challenge to a recent ban on panhandling in downtown Atlanta. Gerald Weber, legal director for the ACLU of Georgia, said the group plans...
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Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval has challenged a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision on regulations for the proposed nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain , adding to a rash of litigation that has stalled...
Russia on Friday released two former Guantanamo Bay detainees from a Moscow detention center. Airat Vakhitov and Rustam Akhmyarov, who were extradited to Russia by the US in 2004, were arrested ...
Human rights groups are pressuring the Canadian government to open a new investigation into the role the government played in allegedly allowing a number of Muslim Canadians to be imprisoned and tortured in Syria. Testimony ended Thursday in an...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour wrapped up an official visit to China Friday, calling for China to release data about its use of capital punishment and urging cooperation with international standards....
160 US law professors have signed a letter declaring their opposition to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts . The group of professors expressed concern about Roberts' record, claiming he favors expansion of government power and reduction...
Youssef Hmimssa , a Moroccan man whose testimony was at the center of a terrorism trial that later unraveled, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison on Thursday on charges of credit card fraud and visa...
President Bush has used a recess appointment to fill an opening at the Justice Department that was stalled in the Senate, naming attorney Alice S. Fisher to the top post in the DOJ's criminal division....
Intel filed an answer in federal court on Thursday to an anti-trust suit brought by rival computer chip maker Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) , denying allegations of anti-competitive...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Russian UN official Vadim Kouznetsov Thursday on money laundering charges. An FBI official said the still-sealed charges against Kouznetsov, who heads a UN budget oversight panel, are only remotely connected...
