US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) said Tuesday that a Senate floor debate on a proposed bill to compensate asbestos victims will begin February 6. Specter has co-sponsored the Fairness in Asbestos Injury...
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Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, January 24, 2006 [asserting that not only did alleged secret prisons run by the CIA in Europe exist, but...
US District Court Judge Sim Lake has ruled that the Enron trial , set to begin January 30, will remain in Houston. In a ruling handing down late Monday, Lake denied the request ...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday downplayed criticism of the controversial domestic surveillance program administered by the National Security Agency , saying that reports of the program have been misleading....
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by a vote of 10-8, with all Republican members voting for...
The wife of Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye , Winnie Byanyima, and Forum for Democratic Change official Jack Sabiti were charged Tuesday with criminal libel and supplying false information for alleging that judges involved in...
Tongsun Park , a South Korean lobbyist, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan on charges stemming from the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program . Park faces charges of money laundering and...
African Union officials are expected to ask a panel of legal experts to determine whether former Chad President Hissene Habre should be extradited to Belgium to face human rights charges, a senior African Union official...
Six Yemen citizens, including four who have been released from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will face stand trial in a special terrorism court on accusations of belonging to al Qaeda, according...
A terror suspect accused in Spain of links to the Sept. 11 attacks has accused the UK Security Service of using rendition to arrange his torture in several Arab countries. Farid Hilali made the...
