A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday ruled that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) "unreasonably delayed" the accounting of billions of dollars of American Indian money...
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A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by residents of New Orleans against the US Army Corps of Engineers , ruling that the Flood Control Act of 1928 grants immunity to...
Kosovo (Serbia): The challenge to fix a failed UN justice mission, Amnesty International, January 30, 2008 . Read the full text of the report ....
The extortion trial of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed resumed Wednesday in Dhaka, after the Bangladesh Supreme Court last week rejected Hasina's appeal of the proceedings . Hasina had argued that...
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Wednesday that he would begin a hunger strike to protest denial of medical treatment to Vasily Aleksanian , an imprisoned former executive and lawyer...
Iran's chief judge issued a ban Wednesday against all public executions not specially permitted by the head of the judiciary. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi also banned the publication of pictures and videos of executions and...
The International Judges and Prosecutors Programme of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has failed to meet international standards to ensure fair trials, according to a report released Wednesday by...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a controversial trial court judgment in favor of a plaintiff class of cattle ranchers claiming that defendant meat-packing companies underpaid them based on...
Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) , Wednesday expressed optimism after completing a two-day visit to Washington DC to speak with top US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,...
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty Tuesday called for restrictions on media coverage of terrorism cases, saying that media disclosure should be delayed until judicial proceedings have been completed. In a speech entitled "Terrorism: Policing's New...
