Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union are expected to file suit in federal court Wednesday, demanding the release of Numan Adnan Al Kaby, an Iraqi-born permanent US resident arrested and held in Baghdad since April 2005....
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A US federal court has frozen the Palestinian Authority's access to assets held in the US after it failed to pay $116 in damages for the 1996 shooting deaths of an American citizen and his Israeli wife. After the...
After hearing oral arguments Tuesday, US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein expressed hesitation over ordering the release of 97 Department of Defense photos and videotapes depicting the abuse of prisoners held by US forces at...
The Supreme Court of Nicaragua has ruled that former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman , who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003, can leave his home and move freely around Managua, Nicaragua's...
AP is reporting that Philippine legislators have quashed the impeachment case against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo . With opposition members boycotting, the House Committee on Justice voted to quash all impeachment complaints against...
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been ordered to conduct "threat assessments" of prison inmates in order to determine whether they could commit extremist violence when released, according to a letter obtained by AP. Randy D. Parsons,...
The Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act 1993 (amended 2003). Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:721. Excerpt :A. Because of the existing possibility of the occurrence of emergencies and disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from terrorist...
The Louisiana Attorney General's office late Tuesday issued a number of clarifications concerning the "martial law" assertions made earlier in the day by local officials and law enforcement agents in the wake of devastation caused by Hurricane...
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Arizona Attorney General's office has announced that $101 million it seized earlier this year may belong to failed hedge fund company Bayou Management. The Connecticut Attorney General's office said...
The Russian Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the acquittal of four Russian soldiers in the 2002 murder of six Chechen civilians . The acquittal was overturned due to criminal procedure violations, and Judge Alexander Koronets ordered...
