Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in the US District Court for the District of Columbia...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has announced it will rehear arguments on a preliminary injunction imposed last year which prevented South Dakota from enforcing a 2005 abortion law . Enforcement of...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the consolidated cases Davenport v. Washington Education Association and Washington v. Washington Education Association , 05-1589 and 05-1657 , where the...
A federal appeals court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether the government should be permitted to reinstate a charge against alleged terrorist Jose Padilla . The charge, conspiracy to "murder, kidnap and maim persons in...
A coordinated hunger strike has halted proceedings before Bosnia's national war crimes after multiple defendants boycotted the court Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, demanding to be tried under the criminal code in place at the time of their alleged crimes,...
Northern Ireland must abide by a gay rights bill that came into effect January 1 after the House of Lords voted Tuesday to keep the regulations in place. Lord Morrow opened debate on the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation)...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the causation standard for railroad negligence under the Federal Employers Liability Act is the same as that for employee contributory negligence under the...
Peru plans to mount a legal challenge to a decision from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ordering a $20 million judgment be paid to the families of deceased rebels and calling for the government to...
US military mental health workers had diagnosed an Army soldier as a homicidal threat three months before he was involved in the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her...
The first US execution of 2007 took place Tuesday, when the state of Oklahoma executed a man by lethal injection for the 1992 murders of four people. The US Supreme Court denied Corey Duane Hamilton's...
