Anderson v. King County, Washington Supreme Court, July 26, 2006 . Excerpt: The two cases before us require us to decide whether the legislature has the power to...

Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador filed a criminal complaint against the Federal Electoral Institute Tuesday, alleging that it should have blocked campaign ads funded by private companies that he alleges broke election...

A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that statements made by two partners at accountancy firm KPMG cannot be used in their upcoming trial because federal prosecutors coerced the two defendants into cooperating with...

China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) , the country's highest criminal prosecution body, has issued new regulations outlining 42 offenses constituting abuses of authority in a bid to prevent torture of criminal suspects and other...

A Texas jury Wednesday found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity of drowning her five children in 2001. Yates will now be committed to a Texas mental hospital and will undergo periodic hearings to determine...

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox suggested that Congress may need to permit increased SEC oversight over hedge funds to protect retail investors and prevent fraud, during a hearing held by...

Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock Wednesday called on Australian states to ban books inciting terrorism in the wake of a recent Australian Classification Review Board (CRB) decision to ban two Islamic books that allegedly incited terror...

US Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said Tuesday that arrests of people trying to cross the border illegally have dropped by 45 percent in the two months since President Bush announced a...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit granted an administrative injunction Wednesday in the case of US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) , preventing FBI review of documents seized from Jefferson's congressional offices until after...

CIA Director Michael Hayden on Wednesday spoke against requiring the US government to show probable cause to obtain warrants to wiretap domestic conversations thought to involve al-Qaeda affiliates during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on adapting the...