US President George W. Bush issued an executive order on Thursday which gives the country's Director of National Intelligence the authority to coordinate information sharing between different US and foreign intelligence services, a duty previously...
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A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday rejected arguments that senior White House officials are protected from congressional subpoena by executive privilege, ruling that former White House legal...
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday granted prosecutors' petition for an en banc rehearing on whether the insider trading conviction of former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio [JURIST news...
The South African Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a motion by politician Jacob Zuma to exclude evidence from his upcoming corruption trial. Zuma had argued that...
Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives v. Harriet Miers, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 31, 2008 . Read...
The Alabama Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Wednesday to indefinitely stay the execution of Thomas Arthur , who had been sentenced to death by lethal injection for a 1982 contract killing. Arthur would have...
California Attorney General Jerry Brown formally notified the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday that the state would file a lawsuit against the agency if it refused to issue rules regulating greenhouse...
Officials for United Airlines filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeking to ban pilots' union Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and four pilots from...
Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic Friday refused to enter a plea and denied the assistance of counsel in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Wednesday that a Native American prisoner in Wyoming had settled his lawsuit against the Wyoming Department of Corrections after Department officials agreed to allow the man to keep up...
