US District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled in Chicago Thursday that Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black will not have to await his November 30 sentencing in jail. St. Eve nonetheless put...

US District Judge John Bates Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration brought by Valerie Plame , the former CIA operative whose disclosed identity precipitated the 2003 CIA leak scandal [JURIST news...

UK parliamentarians on the Constitutional Affairs Committee called Thursday for reforms to the role of the Attorney General for England and Wales, saying conflicts between political and legal aspects of the position make it "not...

Russia expelled four British diplomats and suspended counter-terrorism cooperation with the UK Thursday in response to Monday's expulsion of four Russian diplomats from the UK in protest over Russia's refusal to extradite Russian citizen...

The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Thursday sentenced three former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council to at least 45 years of imprisonment each . Brima Bazzy...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday ruled against Russia in the case of a former KGB agent who was detained under conditions that the court said "amounted to degrading treatment" . The ex-agent,...

Counsel for suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday asked the judge's former colleagues to reinstate him or else risk further destabilizing the country. Lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan...

Former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra filed a lawsuit Thursday against Thailand's Assets Examination Committee (AEC) for its seizure of Thaksin's family assets , demanding that the AEC terminate its freeze...

Sunni members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives ended a lengthy boycott of parliamentary sessions Thursday, after agreeing to a secret deal with Shi'a political parties that will reinstate Sunni lawmaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani...

Valerie Plame Wilson, et al. v. I. Lewis Libby, Jr., et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 19, 2007 [dismissing a lawsuit filed by exposed former CIA operative Valerie Plame against members of the Bush administration...