The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Tellabs v. Makor Issues & Rights , 06-484 , where the Court must decide the extent to which...
Articles Posted in March, 2007
Thousands of Polish citizens marched in Warsaw on Wednesday in support of a proposed constitutional amendment to enact a complete ban on abortion. The opposition Civic Platform party is expected to block passage of the amendment when...
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry of the Supreme Court of Pakistan , who was suspended March 9 by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for alleged misconduct, told a crowd of 2,000 lawyers in Rawalpindi...
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday lashed out at the Georgian Republic for filing a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) alleging Russia violated the human rights of Georgian nationals during a...
Belgian authorities on Wednesday arrested three Italian nationals - a European Commission official in charge of delegation infrastructure, a personal assistant to an Italian member of the European Parliament , and a businessman - on corruption...
Zimbabwe police on Wednesday arrested opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and twenty staff members ahead of a press conference where Tsvangirai was expected to denounce police brutality that occurred during a crackdown on anti-government protesters earlier...
A Mexican special prosecutor's office designed to investigate past political crimes shut down on Tuesday without ever securing any convictions. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox , who created the department, decided to close it just before leaving office...
Texas Governor Rick Perry Tuesday signed into law a new so-called "shoot first" law , which allows state residents to use deadly force to respond to threats in their homes, cars, and at...
The president of Vietnam has signed a decree abolishing the power of the government to hold suspected national security threats without judicial hearings, a government official told AP Wednesday. Western officials have praised President Nguyen Minh...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Credit Suisse Securities v. Billing , 05-1157, a case in which investors filed a class...
