A provision in the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act on its way to the US House of Representatives after being passed 96-0 Thursday by the Senate would restore military aid to countries that refuse to sign bilateral immunity...
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The US Navy announced Friday that it has begun a criminal investigation into how information containing Social Security numbers and other personal data for 28,000 sailors was found on a civilian Web site. Although the information...
The American Bar Assocation (ABA) and the US Justice Department agreed on Friday that the ABA would pay the goverment $185,000 in fees and costs for violating six provisions of a 1996 court order that...
Governor M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut said Friday that a tentative agreement has been made between the city of New London and two homeowners who refused to leave their homes for a private development on their land...
The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined Friday to order the government to turn over information about the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program in its terrorism financing case against Yassin Aref. Aref...
US v. Batiste, et al, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, June 22, 2006 [indictment charging seven defendants who allegedly plotted to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami with conspiring...
Turkey's Supreme Court on Friday announced that the corruption trial of former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz has been indefinitely suspended, meaning that the charges against Yilmaz will be dropped if he does not face similar...
Canada authorities confirmed Friday that they had asked Germany to detain Iranian prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi if he passed through German territory after attending the inaugural meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland,...
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday struck down a US Securities and Exchange Commission rule regulating hedge funds. The rule required hedge fund advisors responsible...
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday called for new laws to narrow the gap between the public's desire for justice and outcomes that are perceived to unfairly favor defendants, in a a major criminal justice policy...
