A three-judge panel of the Iraqi Central Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced to death an Iraqi citizen affiliated with a Sunni militant organization for the 2006 abduction, torture, and killing of two US soldiers and the killing of a third US soldier. The trial and conviction are the first in which an Iraqi citizen has [...]

Judge Iain Bonomy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday warned former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic not to cause any delays in his trial and gave him 14 days to respond to a motion to amend the indictment against him. Karadzic is representing himself and [...]

Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr.:"For those unfamiliar with military practice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice,reading the recent federal District Court decision in Watada v. Head, is probably as baffling as any of the great "Sherlock Holmes" mysteries. But, like any of the Holmes' stories, in the end it all becomes quite "elementary." LT Ehren [...]

Internet search company Google, Inc. agreed Tuesday to settle two copyright infringement lawsuits stemming from its book-scanning initiative . The two lawsuits were brought against Google by The Authors Guild , an advocacy group seeking to preserve copyright protection for authors, and by other plaintiffs including the Association of American Publishers (AAP) , The McGraw-Hill [...]

A US military judge ruled Tuesday that a confession given by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad to Afghan officials following his capture in 2002 was obtained using torture and is therefore inadmissible at his upcoming military commission trial. Army Col. Stephen Henley found that Afghan officials threatened to kill Jawad and his family unless he [...]

Huang Songyou was removed from his position as vice president of China's Supreme People's Court Tuesday in a vote by Chinese legislators. No explanation was given for the action, but earlier this month, Huang was reportedly detained by party officials in an alleged corruption scandal. AFP has more. Huang was noted for promoting judicial enforcement [...]

Former spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Florence Hartmann declined Monday to enter a plea on two counts of contempt she faces for allegedly releasing restricted information regarding court rulings in the case of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic . Hartmann was the former official spokesperson for chief ICTY prosecutor [...]

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday withdrew a lawsuit she had brought against president Victor Yushchenko and the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) challenging Yushchenko's plan to dissolve parliament and hold new elections. Tymoshenko said the challenge was dropped because Yushchenko last week suspended his plan to hold elections on December 4, citing the [...]

Reports of hate crimes dropped approximately one percent in 2007 from the previous year but incidents of sexual-orientation bias crimes increased by six percent, according to the 2007 Hate Crime Statistics released by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Monday. The FBI reported 7,621 single-bias hate crime incidents — those in which one or [...]

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. on Monday settled an antitrust suit with Discover Financial Services for $2.75 billion. Under the settlement, $1.8875 billion was apportioned to Visa and $862.5 million to Mastercard under a judgment-sharing agreement. This settlement is the result of a 2004 lawsuit filed by Discover after a US Department of Justice suit [...]