The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has refused to block organic food company Whole Foods Market from buying rival grocer Wild Oats Markets . US District Judge Paul Friedman refused to issue an injunction blocking the acquisition last week, and the US Federal Trade Commission appealed that decision to the [...]

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte will serve as Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina when her term as ICTY prosecutor expires at the end of the year, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Del Ponte, former Swiss attorney general, has served two four-year terms as the ICTY chief prosecutor. She [...]

A US Marines investigating officer has recommended that murder charges be dropped against Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum for his role in the killing and suspected cover-up of the death of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha in November 2005. Lt. Col. Paul Ware said that there was insufficient evidence to support bringing Tatum to court-martial on [...]

Pakistan Muslim League and Nawaz Sharif v. Federation of Pakistan, Supreme Court of Pakistan, August 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

An Austrian writer wanted for denying the Holocaust was arrested Thursday by Spanish police in Malaga, Spain. Gerd Honsik was convicted of neo-Nazi activities in his native Austria in 1992 and sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison, but fled to Spain to avoid jail time. Honsik has written books denying the Nazi genocide against [...]

The man who shot former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972 will be released from prison this year, after serving 35 years of a 53-year sentence, a prison official said Thursday. Arthur Bremer is scheduled to leave prison on December 16, although he may be released sooner for good behavior. Bremer has not expressed any [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday agreed to reconsider its June ruling that the military cannot seize and imprison civilians lawfully residing in the United States and detain them as "enemy combatants" . In June, the court rejected government arguments that the president was authorized to order the military seizure [...]

Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid , also known as Chemical Ali, personally killed at least 15 men suspected of participating in a Shi'a uprising in southern Iraq following the 1991 Persian Gulf War, according to testimony offered Thursday in the crimes against humanity trial ongoing at the Iraqi High [...]

The Swiss Federal Tribunal , Switzerland's supreme court, ruled Thursday that Swiss authorities cannot hand over to Russia financial documents linked to Russian oil giant Yukos , finding that the Russian prosecution of former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev was politically motivated. Referring to Khodorkovsky, the court said that facts [...]

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has refused to sign a bill that would give courts the authority to force journalists to disclose confidential sources. The Media Bill 2007 also establishes an independent council to adjudicate complaints against the media, but Kibaki specifically objected Wednesday to clause 35 subclause (4), which he said "could act as a [...]