US District Judge Jed. S. Rakoff Monday denied government claims that he was interfering with the president's constitutional authority to wage war when he ordered that Guantanamo Bay detainees be asked if they...

A New York court Monday commenced proceedings in the civil trial arising out of the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center . The court will need to determine whether the Port Authority of New York and...

Criminal Victimization, 2004, US Department of Justice , released September 25, 2005 . Excerpt:Taken together, the 1-year (2003-04)...

Gun control advocates are set to start an intensive media campaign to alert travelers about a new Florida law that allows people to respond to threats by using guns at home or in public ....

Egyptian judges Monday ordered opposition leader and recent presidential candidate Ayman Nour to appear in court again Tuesday to answer charges connected to the submission of forged signatures when his party applied for official recognition...

UN human rights officials have accused the government of Togo of using over-zealous force at the time of the heavily disputed April presidential elections , saying that government security and armed forces killed 400-500 people...

In Monday's environmental law news, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has announced a proposed settlement with Colonna's Shipyard Inc. for polluting the Elizabeth River. Colonnas has agreed to pay a $40,000 fine for mistakenly...

Joseph Serugendo, the former Technical Chief of Rwanda's Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM) , nicknamed “Radio Machete” for inciting its listeners to commit murder, has been transferred to a United Nations detention facility in Tanzania [UN...

Leading Monday's international brief, UN Special Representative on the Prevention of Genocide Juan Mendez has slammed the domestic war crimes court set up in Sudan earlier this year, saying it has failed...

Leading Monday's states brief, Connecticut has became the first state to challenge the new federal Energy Policy Act , allowing the developers of power projects to appeal directly to the federal government when state officials deny or delay...