The prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday asked the UN Security Council to extend the ICTR's mandate so that the court can complete all war crimes trials. Hassan Bubacar Jallow [official...
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The US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking the enforcement of employer-related provisions of Oklahoma's controversial immigration law . Judge Robin Cauthron concluded that...
The Third Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal Wednesday ruled that a plan to ease prison overcrowding by transferring prisoners to out-of-state facilities does not violate the state constitution . The California Correctional...
Terror suspects should be tried in military commissions, not federal courts, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said in a Wednesday speech to judges at the 2008 DC Circuit Judicial Conference . Mukasey...
The Virginia-based National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) brought a class action lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday, alleging on behalf of over 800 black farmers that the USDA improperly discriminated against them...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Wednesday rejected Djibouti's attempt to obtain records concerning murdered French judge Bernard Borrel . Djibouti claimed that France...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will complete its caseload before its mandate expires in 2010, Serge Brammertz promised in his first address before the UN...
The Supreme Court of Japan Wednesday struck down part of a law which denied Japanese citizenship to children born out of wedlock to Japanese fathers and foreign mothers. The Court found that Article 3 of the Nationality...
The Supreme Court of California Wednesday denied bids by two conservative groups to stay the Court's May 15 decision overturning a ban on same-sex marriage in the state....
Bangladesh police have thusfar arrested at least 10,000 people in a major security sweep ahead of elections slated for later this year, national police chief Nur Mohammad told AFP Wednesday. The arrests, which began last week...
