Judge Carl Barbier of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana postponed the trial over the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill Monday, hours before it was set...

The Spanish Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision acquitted Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon Monday of abuse of power charges . Garzon was charged with abusing power...

The former governor of Delta state in Nigeria, James Ibori, pleaded guilty in a UK court on Monday to 10 counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud. The former governor of Nigeria's oil-rich state is...

A Cairo Criminal Court judge on Sunday adjourned the trial of 43 non-governmental organization (NGO) employees, including 16 Americans and 27 other foreigners, until April following the first day of the trial. Employees of the International Republican Institute, the...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday sentenced former president of the municipality of Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milan Tupajic , to two months...

Syria held a referendum Sunday to vote on a new constitution . The gesture towards the opposition by President Bashar al-Assad has widely been seen as an empty one, with much of the international...

Lawyers for the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group notified the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday that they plan to appeal the ruling earlier this week in the US District Court for the Northern...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit on Friday from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , a consumer privacy group, asking the Federal Trade Commission...

A Milan court on Saturday dismissed corruption charges against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , finding that the statute of limitations had expired. Berlusconi was on trial for allegedly bribing his British tax lawyer,...

A pro-same-sex marriage group in Maine, EqualityMaine , has gathered enough signatures to place a same-sex marriage referendum on the November ballot. The question reads: "Do you favor a law allowing marriage licenses for same-sex...