Padilla v. Hanft, Supreme Court of the United States, April 3, 2006 [text of opinions issued in connection with the Court's 6-3 denial of Jose Padilla's petition for certiorari to the US Fourth Circuit Court for Appeals that had previously...

Jim McGinty , attorney general of Western Australia , has announced plans to introduce legislation that would allow for regular television broadcast of court proceedings in the state, which would make the state's courts the...

Nearly 3.6 million US households - roughly 3 percent of the total - fell victim to identity theft during a six month period in 2004, according to a US Department of Justice report released Sunday. The...

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he's willing to reopen Canada's perenniel constitutional debate. In an interview with CBC radio Sunday ahead of Monday's opening of the 39th Parliament in Ottawa, Harper...

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla , who had challenged whether an enemy combatant can be held indefinitely without charge. Padilla, the so-called dirty bomber,...

The defense case for former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma opened on Monday with testimony from Zuma about his role in the African National Congress (ANC) . Zuma's motion to dismiss the rape charges [JURIST...

Defense lawyers begin their case this week in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling . The prosecution's case ended last week with US District Judge Sim Lake...

Two men who are part of a class-action lawsuit against the US government have claimed that they were abused by dogs while being held in a New Jersey jail after the Sept. 11 attacks . Ibrahim Turkmen...

French union leaders and student groups hinted Monday that they might be willing to re-enter negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin a day after the law establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (CPE) [text, JURIST...

The United Kingdom launched its first non-police law enforcement agency Monday - the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) - modeled after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US....