US District Judge Benjamin Settle Friday extended until November 9 a stay of court-martial proceedings against US Army Iraq war objector 1st Lt. Ehren Watada . Settle had temporarily blocked the court-martial, the second filed for the...
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US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday became the latest high court member to publicly criticize the possibility of televising the court's proceedings. Speaking at the University of Virginia, Alito joked that televising...
US Army Sergeant 1st Class Trey A. Corrales, charged in July with the premeditated murder of an unarmed Iraqi civilian, waived his right to an Article 32 pretrial hearing Saturday. The decision came...
Venezuelan human rights activists and church leaders Friday criticized new constitutional reforms proposed by President Hugo Chavez that they say would suspend legal due process and centralize power in an authoritarian presidency....
A federal district judge Friday dismissed a breach of privacy lawsuit against the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) . The Belgium-based international banking cooperative disclosed personal information about its customers to third parties, including...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that an Egyptian student wrongly detained in the wake of the 9/11 attacks may sue the FBI agent who interrogated him. Abdallah Higazy appealed a ruling...
The former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay , Col. Morris D. Davis , told the New York Times Friday that he was pressured to use classified evidence against defendants in closed war crimes trials...
US President George W. Bush imposed new sanctions on 12 Myanmar businesses and individuals in an executive order issued Friday. Included in the order freezing US-held assets and blocking certain property transactions were designations by the...
Two US Marines were ordered Friday to face court-martial hearings for their actions in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi citizens in Haditha in November 2005. Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani [JURIST news...
White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto attempted Friday to deflect widespread criticism of US Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing...
