In anticipation of US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings next month, Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced a proposed Senate resolution Friday, criticizing the...
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US Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff from the Northern District of Illinois signed off on the United Airlines reorganization plan Friday, in a move that will allow the airline to emerge from...
US v. Joseph Bibee et al., United States District Court for the District of Oregon, January 19, 2006 [indictment of eleven people alleged to have carried out a series of arsons causing millions of dollars in damage in five Western...
Gitanjali Deane and Lisa Polak et al. v. Frank Conoway et al., Judge M. Brooke Murdock, Baltimore City Circuit Court, January 20, 2006 [ruling against a 1973 Maryland state law that prohibits same-sex marriage, declaring that it subjects the plaintiff...
The US Department of Defense announced Friday that it has brought charges against a tenth Guantanamo Bay detainee. Abdul Zahir has been formally charged with conspiracy, aiding the enemy and attacking civilians,...
A Chilean appeals court Friday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity so he can face charges involving the torture of thousands of people at Villa Grimaldi , an infamous political detention center...
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw denied Friday that he withheld any information from Parliament concerning Britain's involvement in secret CIA rendition flights and also said that there had not been any flights through Britain...
A California proposal for a two-year death penalty moratorium hit a permanent stumbling block in the California Assembly's Appropriations Committee Thursday. The moratorium proposal intended to suspend executions in California until...
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock on Friday ruled against a 1973 state law that prohibits same-sex marriage , declaring that the statute subjects the plaintiff couples to a discriminatory classification...
US District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday sentenced former Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for leaking classified information...
