The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted Tuesday to reject proposed legislation which would have effectively ended the death penalty in the state. Had it passed, the proposed law would have...
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Rockwell International v. US ex rel. Stone, US Supreme Court, March 27, 2007 [holding that individuals must be able to show that they are the "original source" of information concerning the fraudulent use of federal funds in order to bring...
The US District Court for the Central District of California began jury selection Tuesday in the espionage trial of Chi Mak , a Chinese-American engineer charged with conspiring to smuggle sensitive naval intelligence data to...
The Iowa Senate on Tuesday passed SF427 , extending the state's civil rights protections to gay and lesbians. The controversial legislation would officially add gender identity and sexual orientation to the list of groups protected from discrimination...
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCR) Tuesday criticized the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) for its terrorist watchlist containing more than 6,000 names. A...
The late former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is under investigation for possibly ordering the murder of former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva in 1982. Although Pinochet died of a heart attack [JURIST...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for authorizing torture and abuse of detainees by US...
Kosovan Prime Minister Agim Ceku Tuesday urged Serbs to accept a UN plan to have Kosovo govern itself as an autonomous, multi-ethnic society. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica responded that Kosovo "could never be independent"...
Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Italy launched simultaneous raids on Tuesday in a massive anti-corruption investigation involving European public servants. Over 150 police officers took part in over 30 raids of homes, businesses and banking offices, as well as the...
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Tuesday, including Rockwell International v. US ex rel. Stone where the Court held that individuals must be able to show...
