The US Supreme Court decided three cases Tuesday. The Court ruled 7-2 in United States v. Hayes that a federal gun law that prohibits anyone convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from possessing a firearm does not require that a domestic relationship between an attacker and victim be a specific element of the crime. Hayes, a [...]

US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers on Monday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to revisit a January decision in which a three-judge panel ruled that indefinite civil commitment of "sexually dangerous" offenders was unconstitutional. The DOJ now seeks an en banc ruling on the case, and is disputing the panel's [...]

US Attorney General Eric Holder visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison on Monday as part of a Department of Justice (DOJ) review of the suspended military commission system established to try the detainees. During his visit, Holder reviewed cases against specific detainees, toured the facilities which had housed the military commission proceedings, and was joined [...]

The US Department of Defense Monday officially released its anticipated report on detainee treatment at Guantanamo Bay in compliance with President Barack Obama's January 22 executive order mandating the review . As expected, the report concluded that conditions at the prison "are in conformity with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions." The report made [...]

The Swiss Green Party has collected enough signatures to force a referendum on whether the country's service members should be required to keep their government-issued firearms at military compounds. The Green Party has denounced the current practice of permitting the storage of weapons at home: An impressive number of military weapons lie unused in Swiss [...]

Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky was transferred to Moscow on Tuesday to face new charges of embezzlement and theft, according to court officials. Platon Lebedev , Khodorkovsky's former partner at OAO Yukos Oil Co. , was also transferred to Moscow from the Siberian region of Chita, where both men have been serving prison sentences [...]

US District Judge Samuel Kent pleaded guilty on Monday to obstruction of justice charges in connection with the alleged sexual harassment of his secretary and former case manager. The plea agreement included an admission that the sexual conduct was not consensual, in exchange for dropping five other counts of inappropriate sexual conduct with employees. The [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Monday that a long-awaited decision on a controversial arrest warrant sought for Sudanese head of state Omar al-Bashir would be rendered on March 4. The court said that "onsidering that there have been numerous rumors over the past weeks on the possible date and outcome of this decision … [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari to a Chicago federal corruption case. Three former aides to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley appealed their convictions on charges of mail fraud related to granting city jobs to political supporters. Appellants Robert Sorich, Timothy McCarthy, and Patrick Slattery asserted that [...]

Spanish Minister of Justice Mariano Fernandez Bermejo resigned on Monday due to mounting pressure following allegations that he interfered with a judicial investigation during a hunting trip with Judge Baltasar Garzon . The hunting expedition occurred just days before the launch of Garzon's investigation into corruption charges against the conservative Popular Party (PP) , but [...]