Following an order from the British Information Commissioner, UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on Thursday made public additional details concerning the process surrounding the release of his March 7, 2003 memorandum expressing some reservations about the legality of the pending war against Iraq and events leading up to his March 17, 2003 statement to Parliament [...]

The US House Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 20-13 to approve the full committee markup of the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006 , the 'net neutrality' bill sponsored by Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI). The bill applies federal antitrust law to alleged breaches of 'net neutrality,' or situations where broadband service providers either [...]

The US Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it will no longer defend in court the federal excise tax on long-distance telephone calls , and will issue refunds to taxpayers of all monies paid on the tax since litigation began three years ago. Treasury Secretary John Snow estimates the refund, which will be included in [...]

Lawyers for former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov announced Thursday their intention to appeal to the Russian Supreme Court a Moscow City Court decision to extend Adamov's detention until June 8. The defense lawyers said the extension was "groundless," and argued that prosecutors signed a document certifying that they have finished case preparations, while the [...]

In the Matter of the Search of Rayburn House Office Building Room 2113, Washington DC, US District Court for the District of Columbia, May 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the warrant via Bayoubuzz. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Sameeh Hammoudeh, a co-defendant in a Florida terrorism case with former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian , was deported earlier this week, according to Hammoudeh's attorney. Federal officials took Hammoudeh to his home state of Jordan on Tuesday, where he crossed the border into the West Bank. A former teaching assistant [...]

US House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has said that his committee will hold an oversight hearing into the constitutionality of the FBI's 18-hour raid last Saturday night of the congressional offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) . The FBI says it videotaped Jefferson accepting a $100,000 bribe from an informant. Calling the raid [...]

CNN is reporting that the jury in the 16-week criminal fraud and conspiracy case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling has found both defendants guilty. Lay and Skilling were charged with multiple counts of fraud and criminal conspiracy for providing investors with false and misleading financial information from 1999 up until Enron filed bankruptcy in [...]

A US bankruptcy judge in New York City on Thursday declined to extend an order to block the sale of the controlling stake of Mazeikiu Nafta , the largest oil refinery owned by crippled oil company Yukos . As a result, Yukos is expected to finalize the sale of the Lithuanian-based refinery to Poland based [...]

A panel of federal judges headed by US District Judge D. Brock Hornby of Maine has begun considering whether members of the federal bench should have their way paid to private seminars. Federal judges are currently allowed to go on expense-paid trips as long as they report the travel, but travel financed by private organizations [...]