An Italian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the bribery conviction of David Mills , a British barrister and former lawyer to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . Mills was sentenced ...
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A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's decision to ease restrictions on stem cell research . Nightlight...
A lawyer for Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said Tuesday that a criminal libel suit has been filed against the leader of human rights group Memorial , according to media reports. Oleg Orlov, who...
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston said Tuesday that the use of unmanned warplanes by the US to carry out attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan may be illegal. Alston criticized the US...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed Tuesday to an en banc rehearing of a Department of Justice (DOJ) request to dismiss a suit against a company that allegedly provided...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday resumed proceedings against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic , one day after adjourning because Karadzic failed to...
A French court convicted several high-profile defendants Tuesday for their roles in illegal arms sales to Angola during the 1990s, known as Angolagate . Among those convicted were former interior minister and current senator Charles Pasqua...
The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic delayed judgment Tuesday on a challenge to the country's signing of the European Union (EU) reform treaty, known as the Treaty of Lisbon [EU...
Sherely, et al. v. Sebelius, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, October 27, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest...
Former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic was released from a Swedish prison on Tuesday after serving two-thirds of her sentence for war crimes committed between July 1991 and December 1992. Plavsic voluntarily surrendered herself...
