Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako on Monday appealed the refusal by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to transfer two cases against high-ranking Kenyan officials for their alleged involvement in the violence after the 2007 Kenyan...

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) prosecutor Serge Brammertz said that the arrest of accused Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic was "significant on many levels" but questioned...

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Martinez v. Regents of the University of California , thereby rejecting a challenge to California's policy of granting in-state tuition for state...

The Nigeria Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested outgoing speaker of the House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole Sunday on allegations of fraud. He is believed to have secured a...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday permitted lawsuits against Chiquita Brand International to move forward. Family members of several thousand victims of paramilitary violence...

Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim failed a third time Monday to remove the judge in his sodomy case. The charges against Anwar allege that he sodomized a former male...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Board of Trustees of Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems that federal law does not automatically vest title of inventions from federally...

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday in Erica P John Fund v. Halliburton that, though a party to a private securities fraud action must demonstrate...

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday in McNeill v. United States that a federal sentencing court must determine whether "an offense under State law" is...

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari in two cases. In Martinez v. Ryan , the court will decide whether a defendant has a right to effective assistance...