US federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging four current and former partners of "Big-Four" accounting firm Ernst & Young with tax fraud. The indictment alleges that the defendants created tax shelters...

Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, commander of the US Marine battalion that was accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005, went before a military Article 32 hearing Wednesday...

The Ministry of Defense and Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Cubic Defense Systems, Inc., v. Dariush Elahi, US Court of Appeals for the Nine Circuit, May 30, 2007 [holding that a plaintiff can...

Chief Justice Tulay Tugcu of Turkey's Constitutional Court asked prosecutors Wednesday to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for televised comments made Tuesday that...

A Kuwaiti appeals court upheld the acquittal of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees Tuesday, agreeing with a lower court that there was insufficient evidence to convict . The two men, Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California Wednesday against San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan , alleging that the...

The Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand ordered the dissolution of the political party Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Wednesday after finding that it committed electoral fraud during last year's annulled...

Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor Tuesday confirmed an ongoing investigation conducted in cooperation with Croatian authorities against 12 former Serb paramilitary members for their alleged role in the "torture, inhuman treatment, and killing of 70...

The New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate released a report Tuesday detailing cases of abuse of New Jersey's eminent domain laws, which the report criticized for being giving "overbroad...

Former FBI Director William S. Sessions Wednesday applauded recent efforts to extend DNA testing, especially for the benefit of prisoners facing the death penalty. In a JURIST op-ed, Sessions said that a proposal by New York Gov....