The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court order denying an injunction against a US Forest Service plan to allow commercial logging in the Plumas National Forest ...
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Cain v. Horne, Arizona Court of Appeals, May 16, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper...
A jury in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday convicted an Afghan national originally held as an enemy combatant on charges of drug distribution and narco-terrorism. Khan Mohammed was charged...
US Marine Sgt. Jermaine Nelson will face a court martial later this year for murder, according to an order given by Marine Lt. Gen. Samuel T. Hellman . The murder charge, announced Wednesday, stems from an incident during...
Convicted Kosovo Albanian war criminal Haradin Bala has been transferred to a prison in France to serve out the rest of his 13-year sentence , the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil complaint in the US District Court for the Central District of California Wednesday against California-based microchip maker...
Former Colombian militia leader Salvatore Mancuso pleaded not guilty in a Florida court Thursday to drug trafficking charges after being extradited to the US Tuesday on suspicion of organizing violent massacres and drug smuggling operations. Mancuso and...
Approximately 2,500 minors under the age of 18 have been detained as illegal enemy combatants by the US military at facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a US government report [text, DOC; ACLU press...
The Supreme Court of California Thursday overturned a state ban on same-sex marriage , ruling 4-3 in In re Marriage Cases that the ban violated protections on the right to "form...
UK ministers and MPs deadlocked Wednesday over a controversial proposed anti-terror bill that would allow British authorities to detain terror suspects up to 42 days without charge . Prime Minister Gordon Brown has...
