After a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit in Cairo, International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo told reporters Wednesday that the court will support Sudan in any genuine effort to prosecute suspects in the...
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Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, Bristol-Myers Squib has reached a $300 million settlement with the federal government over securities fraud. US Attorney for the district of New Jersey Christopher Christie announced the settlement...
Despite the looming threat of a Presidential veto , the US House of Representatives voted 238-187 late Wednesday to approve the so-called Sanders Freedom to Read Amendment limiting a section of the USA Patriot Act ...
Leading Wednesday's states brief, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled today that the town of Greenwich must release its computer database of aerial photographs and maps to the public. The Supreme Court rejected the town's argument that the...
The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that former president Luis Echeverria can be prosecuted for the deaths of student demonstrators killed in 1971. A panel of judges voted 3-2 to allow Echeverria and...
Senior US military and Justice Department officials defended Guantanamo prison and US policy towards terror detainees Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Citing continued uncertainty about their status, Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) urged Congress to...
Terri Schiavo autopsy report, Florida District Six Medical Examiner, June 15, 2005 [showing that Terri Schiavo had a severely "atrophied" brain that weighed less than half of what a normal brain should weigh and was irreversibly damaged, a condition consistent...
Hearing on Detainees, US Senate Judiciary Committee, June 15, 2005 . Excerpt from the testimony of Professor Stephen Schulhofer, New York University School of Law:For half a century, the United...
An autopsy report released Wednesday showed that Terri Schiavo had a severely "atrophied" brain that weighed less than half of what a normal brain should weigh and was irreversibly damaged. Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon...
The Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) Wednesday questioned Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan , a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, in connection with crimes committed against the Kurds in the early 1980s. The tribunal questioned Hussein himself earlier...
