Leading Friday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency has ruled against a petition from the state of North Carolina to force the cleanup of coal-fired power plants in other states that North Carolina...
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Environmental brief ~ EPA rules against North Carolina in out-of-state pollution dispute
Liberia seeks Nigerian handover of ex-president Taylor on war crimes charges
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Milosevic toxicology test results [ICTY]
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Vietnam war deserter released from US military custody
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ICTY: ‘no indications’ Milosevic poisoned
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US Navy weighing war crimes charges for Iraqi civilian deaths in 2005 firefight
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Justice Department clears New Orleans election over black protests
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FBI says no federal civil rights charges to be filed in 1955 Till case
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Ginsburg, O’Connor received death threats after Republican criticisms
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European Parliament urges trial of ex-Chad leader
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Liberia has formally asked the Nigerian government to transfer former Liberian President Charles Taylor so that he can face war crimes charges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone . Liberia's transfer request...
Provisional findings concerning the death of S. Milosevic, letter from Public Prosecutor's Office, The Hague, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, March 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the letter. Reported...
Allen Abney was released from US military custody Thursday evening after his arrest last week for deserting the US Marine Corps in 1968. Abney, now a Canadian citizen, was born in the United States, but grew up...
Judge Fausto Pocar, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , released updated results Friday from the autopsy on Slobodan Milosevic indicating that toxicological tests undertaken by Dutch investigators showed...
The US Navy plans to investigate possible war crimes committed by US troops in a November 2005 Iraq firefight that killed 15 civilians, according to a military official speaking on condition of anonymity Thursday. The incident involved...
The US Justice Department Thursday invoked its authority under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to approve scheduled April 22 municipal elections in New Orleans . African American leaders had pressed the Department to block the...
No federal civil rights charges will be filed in the 1955 killing of Emmett Till , according to an FBI statement issued Thursday citing the expiration of a five year statute of limitations. Till, a 14-year...
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor have both said in recent speeches that they have been the target of death threats. In a speech last...
The European Parliament Thursday urged Senegal to provide for a fair trial of former Chad President Hissene Habre , either in Senegal or through extradition to Belgium, which has issued...
