The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) must pay retroactive benefits to Vietnam War veterans afflicted by chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) , rejecting...
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Nuon Chea , former deputy general of the Cambodian Communist Party and the most senior surviving member of the Khmer Rouge regime, indicated Thursday that he expects to appear before the Extraordinary Chambers...
Constitution petitions ruling, Supreme Court of Pakistan, July 20, 2007 . Read the full text...
The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Thursday approved the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act , which, if enacted, will give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broader authority to sanction television and...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled 10-3 Friday to reinstate suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to the top court, holding that President Pervez Musharraf's March 9 suspension order was illegal....
US District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled in Chicago Thursday that Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black will not have to await his November 30 sentencing in jail. St. Eve nonetheless put...
US District Judge John Bates Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration brought by Valerie Plame , the former CIA operative whose disclosed identity precipitated the 2003 CIA leak scandal [JURIST news...
UK parliamentarians on the Constitutional Affairs Committee called Thursday for reforms to the role of the Attorney General for England and Wales, saying conflicts between political and legal aspects of the position make it "not...
Russia expelled four British diplomats and suspended counter-terrorism cooperation with the UK Thursday in response to Monday's expulsion of four Russian diplomats from the UK in protest over Russia's refusal to extradite Russian citizen...
The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Thursday sentenced three former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council to at least 45 years of imprisonment each . Brima Bazzy...
