French Justice Minister Rachida Dati engaged in emergency discussions with senior members of the French judiciary on Monday to prevent a threatened judges' revolt. Objections have been raised to what some regard as...

Steve Lamar Fields v. Jill Brown, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 10, 2007 . Read the full...

A lawyer for US Marine First Lt. Andrew Grayson, an intelligence officer accused of mishandling an investigation into the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha , said Monday that Grayson has rejected a plea...

The Dutch government has invited UN representatives to discuss final arrangements for the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon it has agreed to host to try suspects for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...

Brandon Mayfield , the Oregon attorney arrested and detained for two weeks in May 2004 after the FBI mistakenly concluded that his fingerprints matched those found on a bag containing detonators used in...

Lawyers for former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif filed an appeal of Sharif's Monday deportation to Saudi Arabia with the Supreme Court of Pakistan Tuesday, asking the court to hold the Pakistani government...

The European Union said Monday that it will only sign a new pre-membership aid and economic deal with Serbia when that country has demonstrated its cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Carla...

Charles McArthur Emmanuel , son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, pleaded not guilty Monday to a US federal indictment charging him with involvement in killings and torture in Liberia. Emmanuel, a Boston-born US citizen, was the...

California resident Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years in a federal prison Monday following his 2006 conviction for supporting terrorism and lying to the FBI. Because Hayat had no prior criminal record, US...

Palestinian judges in the Gaza Strip who are unwilling to cooperate with local authorities will be replaced, Hamas spokesmen said Monday in a bid to end a three-month judicial stalemate. The Gaza Strip judiciary, under...