Khalil al-Dulaimi, chief defense counsel for Saddam Hussein , said Wednesday that the Iraqi High Tribunal is obstructing his efforts to appeal Hussein's death sentence for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of Dujail . Dulaimi reiterated complaints that the trial did not adhere to fair standards and accused the court of "pursuing [...]
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US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , has introduced a new bill, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2006 , that would authorize domestic surveillance of suspected terrorists. Specter's new proposal is a last-ditch attempt to push through legislation during the current lame-duck session [...]
Former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four felony charges stemming from her role in the corporate spying scandal . Dunn is one of five people charged in the case involving company investigators using "pretexting" by impersonating board members, employees and reporters in order to gain their phone records and potentially uncover [...]
The German Federal Court of Justice Thursday found Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq guilty of assisting the men who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the US. The appeals court overturned a lower court decision acquitting Motassadeq, avoiding a third trial against him. Motassadeq was originally convicted in 2003 on charges that he gave financial backing [...]
US President George Bush on Wednesday renominated six candidates for federal appeals court judgeships, at least four of whom Democrats have already rejected . Senate rules require nominations to be resubmitted after a recess longer than 30 days, and the judicial nominations will expire if not approved during the current lame-duck session of Congress. When [...]
US Marine Corps Pfc. John J. Jodka III was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in military custody for his role in the murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania last spring. Jodka, one of eight servicemen originally charged in connection with the killing of Hashim Ibrahim Awad , pleaded guilty last month to assault and [...]
A federal jury sitting in New Orleans ruled Wednesday that Merck & Co. , makers of the painkiller Vioxx that was withdrawn from the market after it was found to expose users to increased risk of heart attack and stroke, was not liable for damages allegedly caused by the heart attack of a Utah man. [...]
Former Enron accounting chief Richard Causey received a 66-month prison sentence Wednesday for authorizing bookkeeping practices that allowed Enron to defraud investors of billions of dollars. Under the original slate of 35 charges against him, Causey had faced up to 20 years in prison. In December he accepted a plea deal offering a maximum seven-year [...]
Lawyers for Saifullah Paracha , a multimillionaire from Pakistan in US custody at Guantanamo Bay , petitioned a federal court Wednesday to enjoin the US military from performing a cardiac catheterization because the facility there lacks sufficient medical equipment and the backup to ensure his health if something goes wrong. Paracha, who suffered a heart [...]
The High Court of Ireland held Wednesday that the protection of an unborn's right to life under Article 40 of the Irish Constitution does not include the preservation of embryos frozen as a part of infertility treatment. Article 40, Section 3.3 says: The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due [...]
