The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 7-2 in CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue that a railroad may challenge sales and use taxes that apply to...
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The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has combined two separate criminal cases and concluded the pre-trial investigation of opposition leader and former primer minister Yulia Tymoshenko ....
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) began the trial of former Serb nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj Tuesday on charges that he released the names of 11 ICTY...
Egypt's chief prosecutor on Monday requested that Foreign Ministry officials take steps to freeze any foreign assets belonging to former president Hosni Mubarak and his family.Prosecutor Abdel Magid made the request even though Mubarak...
Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil announced Monday that the government will work to eradicate corruption. In her address to both houses of Parliament to open the budget session, Patil stated that India will take...
The Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday submitted a formal request to Saudi Arabian authorities to extradite ousted former president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali following the...
Federal prosecutors have dropped a criminal investigation against former Countrywide Financial Corporation executive Angelo Mozilo, concluding that he was not involved in any criminal conduct during his time as director over the company, according to Friday...
Former UK Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf warned Monday that a British Bill of Rights, as proposed by various members of the British government, would conflict with the European Convention on Human Rights , which the...
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the conviction and death sentence of Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab , the only surviving gunman of the three-day siege of Mumbai [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...
The Libyan government is considering adopting a constitution and allowing greater freedoms, Saif al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , announced Monday in a televised address following several days of protests. In the address, Saif al-Islam...
