A group of media organizations has asked a Canadian judge to consider vacating a media blackout in the cases of 17 men arrested in Ontario earlier this month and charged with a terrorist plot. Under Canada's Criminal...
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US District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. halted all executions in Missouri Monday until Missouri can ensure that inmates do not suffer when given a lethal injection. Gaitan gave the Missouri Department of Corrections until July 15 to...
Lawyers for two of the seven men indicted last week on terrorism charges for allegedly conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami said Monday that their clients were entrapped by...
Saddam Hussein and at least six co-defendants will face a second trial beginning August 21 for allegedly killing 100,000 Kurds during the so-called "Anfal" operation in northern Iraq in the 1980s, the Iraqi High...
John Bellinger , the top legal adviser for the US State Department , said Monday that the US would like to close its detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , but must first make sure that...
Iraq's council of ministers on Monday took the first steps to elaborate on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's national reconciliation initiative , which he unveiled to parliament Sunday. In a statement, the council said...
Opening arguments began Tuesday in the fraud trial of Tongsun Park , who has been charged with money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and acting as an unregistered agent of the government...
Kansas v. Marsh, Supreme Court of the United States, June 26, 2006 . Read the Court's majority opinion per Justice Thomas,...
Randall v. Sorrell, Supreme Court of the United States, June 26, 2006 . Read the court's opinion per Justice Breyer, along with a concurrence in...
A same-sex couple argued in court in Boston Monday that a 1913 Massachusetts law should not prevent them from marrying in the state because statutes in their home state of Rhode Island do not explicitly ban gay marriage....
