US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday added a former member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the pool of potential jurors who will decide between the death penalty or life in prison for 9/11 suspect...
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The UN chief administrator of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal said Saturday that the trials of former Khmer Rouge members must begin as soon as possible if they are to happen while the former members...
US Army Special Forces Sgt. Layne Morris and the family of Sgt. Christopher Speer were awarded $102.6 million in triple damages in a civil default judgment against Egyptian-Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr [Wikipedia profile; CBC family...
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Friday that he would not allow any further floor debate on the controversial asbestos compensation bill unless 60 senators pledged their support...
The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) in Haiti acknowledged for the first time Friday that the country's February 7 presidential election was tainted by fraud, just one day after awarding the...
US Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) , chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee , said in an interview with the New York Times reported Saturday that he wants to bring the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news...
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced Friday that it has begun an investigation of newspaper editor Anna Smirnova whose newspaper Nash Region reprinted controversial caricatures of Muhammad this week as...
In comments after a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flatly rejected the United Nation's call for the US to shut down its military detention...
Arar v. Ashcroft, United States District Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, February 16, 2006 [dismissing case citing "the national security and foreign policy considerations at stake" and held that Maher Arar, as a...
The US Supreme Court Friday scheduled new oral arguments in a whistleblower free speech case where the Court initially deadlocked 4-4. In Garcetti v. Ceballos , a Los Angeles county prosecutor claimed...
