Serbia's war crimes court has charged four former members of a notorious Serbian paramilitary organization with war crimes stemming from their alleged involvement in a 1999 massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in the Kosovar village of Podujevo, the Serbian prosecutor's office said Monday. The four suspects, alleged to be members of the Scorpions, were arrested [...]

Federal prosecutors on Monday accused the former deputy chief of staff of the Department of Justice Criminal Division of criminal conflict of interest charges connected to his relationship with disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Robert Coughlin is accused of accepting gifts from Abramoff's lobbying group, as well as discussing future employment at the firm [...]

The New Jersey Supreme Court Monday ruled that Internet service providers may not turn over users' personal information to police or other agencies unless they obtain a valid grand jury subpoena when the information sought relates to an indictable offense. The court held that the New Jersey constitution affords greater protections than the US Constitution [...]

Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," was admitted to a US medical facility in Iraq on Sunday, the US military said Monday. Al-Majid had reportedly been on a hunger strike since Friday, but is now in stable condition after passing out Sunday. One of al-Majid's co-defendants has also [...]

Richard C. Dieter : "On April 16, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a splintered decision on the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection process. Despite the seven different opinions, there were many aspects of the decision that were not surprising, and a few aspects which most people did not see coming. It was not surprising that [...]

John Cummings : "The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Baze v. Rees represents a sweeping vindication of the Commonwealth of Kentucky's execution procedures against constitutional attack. The plurality opinion confirms that the safeguards contained in Kentucky's lethal injection protocol eliminate any substantial risk of harm to condemned inmates. The decision also confirms the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear three cases , including the consolidated cases of US v. Eurodif (07-1059) and USEC v. Eurodif (07-1078) where the Court will consider whether the federal government can impose anti-dumping tariffs on contracts for uranium enrichment services. The key issues in the cases center on whether raw [...]

The US Department of the Treasury issued proposed regulations Monday designed to implement the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 . In January, US President George W. Bush issued an executive order similarly designed to implement the Act, which expands the investigative scope of the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the [...]

White House lawyers argued on Monday before a federal appeals court that White House visitor logs maintained by the Secret Service are executive branch documents and thus not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The appeals court judges hearing the case seemed skeptical of the administration's arguments that the visitor logs should be [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday denied without comment petitions for certiorari filed by 10 death row inmates seeking to have their executions blocked. Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Three of the inmates whose petitions were denied Monday were previously [...]