Both the prosecution and the defense requested additional delays Thursday in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Lawyers say they need more time to prepare for the first...
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Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, US Supreme Court, June 28, 2007 [reversing US Court of Appeals rulings that public schools may consider race when assigning students to public schools, holding that the use of race was not "narrowly...
Yes on Prop 200, et al. v. Janet Napolitano et al., Arizona Court of Appeals, June 28, 2007 [ruling that Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano can be sued for allegedly improperly limiting the enforcement of a voter-approved ballot initiative that requires...
Israeli President Moshe Katsav signed a plea agreement with prosecutors Thursday, under which he will admit to charges of indecent assault, sexual harassment, and obstruction of justice, and will resign from the presidency, in...
The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld a federal restriction on tobacco advertisements Thursday, finding it did not violate the free expression rights of tobacco companies. The suit was brought by the JTI-Macdonald, Rothmans, and...
Saifullah Paracha , a Guantanamo Bay detainee who blocked the US military from performing a cardiac catheterization on him last November, is increasing ill and suffering from frequent fainting and chest pains, his lawyers...
A justice on the Pakistani Supreme Court said Thursday that the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has damaged Pakistan, calling the resulting litigation "not a case but a...
Letter to US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, June 28, 2007 [rejecting congressional subpoenas for the testimony of former White House aids and their documents relevant...
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) announced Thursday that it has referred the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi , the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 ...
Diplomats from the United States and the European Union (EU) said Wednesday they have reached a provisional agreement on the US use of financial data from the Belgian-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) ,...
