The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Tuesday, including Medellin v. Texas , where the Court ruled that President Bush does not have the authority to...
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Supreme Court rules in federally mandated ICJ compliance, arbitration review cases
ABA president expresses ‘grave concern’ over military commission process
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Dallas suburb enforced ordinance targeting illegal immigrants despite injunction
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Supreme Court hears voting rights, sentencing enhancement, Tucker Act cases
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Russia court sentences Bolshevik activists to prison for ‘hooliganism’
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Federal judge sentences engineer to over 24 years in China espionage case
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Cambodia genocide tribunal seeks additional $114 million to fulfill mandate
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Nepal police arrest hundreds as pro-Tibet protests continue
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Supreme Court to hear gun possession, Fourth Amendment cases
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Federal judge allows Connecticut campaign finance law challenge to proceed
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American Bar Association (ABA) President William H. Neukom said in an op-ed published on the ABA website Monday that American lawyers are "deeply troubled by six death penalty cases" being tried by the military commissions process...
An city official with Farmers Branch, Texas said Monday that city officials have accidentally issued several city rental license applications designed to enforce an anti-immigration measure , sending out the applications requiring...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Riley v. Kennedy , 07-77, a voting rights case where the Court is considering whether the state of Alabama...
The Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday sentenced seven members of the banned National Bolshevik Party to prison for "armed hooliganism." The sentences ranged from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years. The charges stem...
US District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California Monday sentenced former Chinese-American engineer Chi Mak to over 24 years in prison for conspiring to commit espionage, attempting to violate export...
Officials from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) made a formal request to the United Nations Monday for $114 million in additional funds to allow the court to continue...
Nepalese police arrested at least 400 Tibetan exiles, monks, and other protesters near the Nepalese UN headquarters in Kathmandu Monday as demonstrations continued against China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . Police reported that an additional...
The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear two cases , including US v. Hayes (07-608) , in which the Court will consider whether a federal law [18 USC...
US District Judge Stefan Underhill of the District of Connecticut has ruled that a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of certain portions of Connecticut's campaign finance law could proceed....
