An attorney for Jim Ellis, head of Americans for a Republican Majority and an associate of former House majority leader Tom DeLay , said in court documents Tuesday that all charges against Ellis are a result of government misconduct. Ellis, along with John Colyandro, has been charged with multiple felony violations in the investigation into [...]

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday was cleared of corruption in a 1994 arms purchase case, a week after he was barred from running in Peru's 2006 presidential election by the country's Constitutional Court . Fujimori has been banned from office until 2010, though he says he intends to return to Peru to run [...]

Two Iraqi Kurds now living in the US, Hassen Ali Abdullah and Khalida Ali, have sued Saddam Hussein in US federal court, seeking compensation for Kurdish victims of genocidal attacks in 1980s Iraq. The class action suit was filed on behalf of all Kurds who lived in northern Iraq from 1987 to 1989 and any [...]

Lord Steyn, a recently retired UK senior judge, has said that the UK government had to scrape the bottom of the legal barrel in order to justify its invasion of Iraq. Lord Steyn also agreed with the conclusion of the outgoing chairman of rights group Justice that none of the government's grounds for intervention were [...]

The United Kingdom and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Tuesday which specifies that foreign nationals deported from the UK to Libya will not be mistreated upon their return. The agreement was signed by Britain's Ambassador to Libya Anthony Layden and the Libyan Acting Secretary for European Affairs, Abdulati Ibrahim al-Obidi. Responding to the [...]

CNN is reporting that Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, who is presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi High Criminal Court, formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal , has ordered an adjournment of the proceeding until November 28. The order comes at the close of the first session of the trial, where [...]

Google will no longer use the "Gmail" name for its UK e-mail service in part of a long-running trademark dispute with small UK financial research company Independent II Research (IIIR). IIIR claims that it launched its "G-MailTM" web based email back in May 2002, nearly two years prior to Google's launch of "GmailTM" and last [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that the use of foreign law in US Supreme Court opinions is "anti-democratic" and "unworkable." In a speech given at George Mason University Law School, Gonzales argued that "Foreign judges and legislators are not accountable to the American people. If our courts rely on a foreign judge's opinion [...]

An argumentative Saddam Hussein pleaded not guilty Wednesday as he and seven co-defendants from the defunct Baath Party went on trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal , also known as the Iraqi High Criminal Court. The eight face charges of murder, torture, forced expulsions and illegal imprisonment for the 1982 massacre of nearly 150 Shiites [...]

Common Cause/Georgia v. Billups, US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, October 18, 2005 . Read the full text of the ruling here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.