The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday rejected an appeal by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of rulings creating a federal panel to supervise California's overcrowded prison system [JURIST...

A Chinese bank official convicted of corruption was executed Tuesday for taking bribes and embezzling the equivalent of almost $2 million USD. Wen Mengie, the former IT head of the Beijing branch of the Agricultural Bank...

Former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Tarek Dergoul is suing the UK's MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) intelligence services over complicity with Dergoul's alleged torture, according to a Wednesday report in...

Peruvian President Alan Garcia criticized the Supreme Court of Chile on Tuesday for delaying until after September 19 its ruling on whether to allow the extradition of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori ....

The directors of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency (NSA) have said that a July 20 appeals court decision mandating the disclosure to federal appeals...

Tennessee executed a condemned man by electric chair on Wednesday, the first execution by electrocution in the state since 1960. Daryl Holton, who confessed to the 1997 murder of his three sons and their...

Ousted Philippines president Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after being convicted on "plunder" charges stemming from kickbacks he received while in office. Plunder was formerly a capital offense, but the Philippines abolished...

Ralph Coleman, et al., v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 11, 2007 ....

US President George W. Bush has narrowed the list of candidates to replace outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , with officials indicating that former Solicitor General Theodore Olson is one of the top...

Green Mountain Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep, et al., v. George Crombie, et al., US District Court for the District of Vermont, September 12, 2007 [ruling that states have the power to regulate automobile greenhouse gas emissions and that existing federal...