A federal jury Wednesday convicted Shahawar Matin Siraj of conspiracy and other charges Wednesday for his role in a failed plot to bomb a New York City subway station in 2004. Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant who first drew authorities' attention for expressing anti-American sentiments after 9/11 , and another suspect, James Elshafay, were arrested in [...]

John Doe I et al. v. Alberto Gonzales et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, May 24, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Human Rights in Iraq, 1 March-30 April 2006, United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, May 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US Marines involved in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Hadithah last November will face charges and possible courts-martial, according to US Marine Corps Gen. Michael W. Hagee , who said on Wednesday that a criminal investigation was underway. He did not say who will be charged or what they will be charged with. [...]

Former US President Jimmy Carter told a conference of human rights leaders at the The Carter Center in Atlanta Wednesday that immigration was a human rights issue and that he backed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act now advancing through the Senate . In an op-ed that appeared in the Miami Herald and other newspapers earlier [...]

A magistrate in Sierra Leone Wednesday granted bail of $8,000 each to three men charged with inspecting a prohibited area and conspiracy to assist former Liberian president Charles Taylor escape from prison at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , a war crimes tribunal. The suspects were reportedly caught photographing the jail earlier this [...]

Three Egyptian journalists and a lawyer have been charged with slandering a local election commission chief by alleging fraud in Egypt's November parliamentary election and publishing the names of two judges accused of rigging results in a runoff poll . The journalists – two writing for the independent Sawt al-Umma weekly and a third being [...]

Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) have announced a $400 million settlement with the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae . A 348 page report issued by the OFHEO on Tuesday found the federally-backed, shareholder-controlled lender guilty of violating reporting and accounting [...]

A lawyer for the government of Sudan urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole alleging that Sudan helped finance the attack and allowed an al-Qaeda operative to ship explosives to [...]

A federal judge on Wednesday gave final approval to a $6.6 billion settlement between former Enron shareholders and the three banks accused of helping Enron hide financial shortcomings to deceive investors. Lead plaintiff's attorney William Lerach said the money will be paid as soon as possible to shareholders, with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, [...]