Lance v. Coffman, US Supreme Court, March 5, 2006 . Read the court's per curiam opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The trial of former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ramush Haradinaj and two Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj , began Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . In her opening remarks, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte called Haradinaj a warlord and a [...]

A New Jersey superior court judge Monday upheld a Friday jury verdict for Merck & Co , finding that the company had given adequate warning to physicians of the risks associated with its painkiller Vioxx . Judge Carol Higbee rejected a motion by plaintiffs attorney Mark Lanier disputing a finding that the drug company had [...]

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton refused to answer a jury question Monday in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial on the level of proof that would have to be met to find the former vice presidential aide guilty. The jury wanted to know whether in order to satisfy the requirement of proof beyond a [...]

Less than half of terrorism suspects arrested in the United Kingdom after September 11, 2001 under the Terrorism Act 2000 were ever charged with any crime, according to figures released Monday by the UK Home Office . Over 1,126 people were arrested between the Sept. 11 attacks and the end of 2006, but only 221 [...]

Former Saddam-era deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz , brought before the Iraqi High Tribunal Monday to testify against six defendants accused of genocide in the Anfal trial , instead denied that Hussein's government had ever carried out any such attacks. Aziz insisted that Iraq did not have the chemical weapons necessary for the alleged poison [...]

The lower house of the Jordanian parliament approved a bill Sunday that would subject journalists to jail sentences for defaming any religion protected under the country's constitution – i.e. Islam, Christianity or Judaism – or "offending the prophets" by their writing or by cartoons. Imprisonment could also result from any "insult to religious sentiments and [...]

Ugandan judges began a week-long general strike Monday to protest last Thursday's siege of the High Court and seizure of defendants by government forces. Court witnesses said that six defendants were rearrested by security forces in court after having been granted bail. The defendants' lawyer was also beaten unconscious by security forces. Elias Kisawuzi, spokesperson [...]

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday denounced a weekend raid by UK-led coalition forces and Iraqi soldiers on the local Basra headquarters building of the National Iraqi Intelligence Agency, ordering an investigation into the incident and declaring that those responsible would be punished. A British military spokesman nonetheless defended the legitimacy of the operation, recalling [...]

A former Sudanese militia leader recently accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court denied attacking Darfur civilians or displacing refugees in an article published in Sudan's Al Intibaha newspaper Sunday. Ali Kushayb insisted he was assigned to the region only to protect the villagers from Arab militias. Kushayb and Ahmed Muhammed Harun, former [...]