Russian Federal Prisons Service director Yuri Kalinin said Wednesday that the transfer of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a larger cell with more inmates was "normal prison procedure" and not a form of punishment....

Britain's Conservative Party leader Michael Howard Wednesday joined an earlier call by former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett for the British courts not to interfere with Parliament's efforts to enact new anti-terrorism laws....

After his arrest in Buenos Aires earlier this week, Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic agreed Tuesday to be extradited and face new charges before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news...

The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in favor of Disney executives Tuesday in a shareholder suit that alleged that the Disney board violated their duties by ratifying a 1996 decision to...

According to wire reports, the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that seals at Iran's Isfahan nuclear facility have been broken , allowing Iran to fully resume its uranium conversion activities. The IAEA held an emergency...

The California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District Tuesday rejected an appeal to have a measure backed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that would change the redistricting process in California included on November's special...

Speaking as part of a panel on the independence of the judiciary at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association Tuesday, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said that controversial...

Former WorldCom accounting director Buford Yates was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Tuesday for his role in the company's billion-dollar business fraud. In 2002 Yates pleaded guilty in...

A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned the convictions and sentences of five accused Cuban spies Tuesday, ruling that their trial in Miami was biased due...

New Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned four activists jailed after criticizing the strict religious environment and the slow pace of democratic reform in Saudi Arabia. In June, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had called...