Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi , who won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate Wednesday after losing a key vote on a foreign policy issue last week, has asked senators to strike down an unfavorable...
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The Law Lords , the judicial panel of the UK House of Lords which is Britain's highest court, Wednesday dismissed an appeal by a suspect in the 2004 Madrid bombings contesting his extradition to...
US District Judge George B. Daniels on Tuesday approved a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by Holocaust survivors against Italian insurance company Assicurazioni Generali . Under the terms of the...
Two Guantamano Bay detainees petitioned the US Supreme Court Tuesday to expedite its review of the 2006 Military Commissions Act (MCA) , which contains a "court-stripping" provision that prevents federal courts from hearing...
The former general counsel for computer security company McAfee was indicted Tuesday by the Department of Justice for concealing an illegal stock option backdating scheme. The DOJ charged Kent Roberts with six counts of mail...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint Tuesday against the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking the release of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) order that authorized government surveillance of transmissions coming into or...
The FBI has started investigating 10-12 civil rights era suspicious death cases , according to FBI Director Robert Mueller and US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Tuesday. Although officials declined to comment on which...
The Supreme Court of Mexico released a decision Tuesday overturning a law that banned those with HIV from serving in the military, finding the law an unconstitutional infringement on principles of equality. The military may now only...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that its earlier decision in Crawford v. Washington , which established that out-of-court statements are inadmissible unless the witness is unavailable and the defendant...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held Tuesday that the Bush administration is permitted to deny funding to nonprofit AIDS awareness and advocacy groups that fail to publicly advocate against...
