The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Wednesday ruled that a planned referendum on modifying the country's constitution to abolish the upper house of congress cannot proceed. The referendum would have amended the 1987 constitution...
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Tony Garza, the US Ambassador to Mexico , said Tuesday that Mexico has extradited 50 prisoners to the US this year, a record total, for stateside prosecution of crimes committed in the US. The Supreme Court of Mexico...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told reporters in Spain Tuesday that the perception that the US does not support the rule of law is "disappointing." Gonzales acknowledged that the international reputation of the US...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that he opposes a bill, passed during a preliminary reading in the Iran parliament earlier this month, that would require every American visitor in Iran to be fingerprinted upon...
The British Labour Party government's majority in the UK House of Commons Tuesday rejected greater restrictions on extraditions to the United States and other foreign countries which were proposed by the House of Lords as...
A federal court in Florida ruled Tuesday that a 2005 state law prohibiting exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place violates the free speech and freedom of the press guarantees of the First Amendment. US District...
The New Jersey Supreme Court Tuesday held that mental retardation, like insanity, is a condition to be affirmatively proved by the defense in state death penalty cases. In a 5-2 ruling , the court overturned an...
A proposal to create a special competition court within the European Union Court of First Instance has been publicly endorsed by the Court's head justice, who called it the best "if not the only effective way of...
An Ontario Superior Court judge struck down a central provision of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act Tuesday, saying it violates the constitutional rights of Momin Khawaja . Lawyers for Khawaja, the first person charged under...
A seven-man Rwandan government commission began an official probe Tuesday into accusations that France assisted a Hutu massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide . Rwanda's current Tutsi President Paul Kagame [official...
