Decision as to the Admissibility of Application no. 23276/04, by Saddam Hussein against Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom; European Court of Human Rights, March 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision. [...]

Order as to the Defendant's Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Two anonymous officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Tuesday that the Tribunal had been informed several times by the ICTY prison warden that former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic , found dead in his cell early Saturday, had unfettered access to any materials brought to him by witnesses and legal [...]

Top executives from Exxon, Chevron, Shell and other major oil companies told members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing Tuesday that high oil prices could be reduced by opening onshore and offshore locations in the US now shielded from drilling, and that energy mergers actually helped consumers by contributing to the ability [...]

The US Marine Corps said Tuesday that Allen Abney, a Vietnam War deserter who is now a Canadian citizen, will probably be released within a week from Camp Pendleton , California. Abney deserted the Corps and fled to Canada in 1968 and was arrested late last week while crossing the Canadian border into Idaho. The [...]

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday denied the admissibility of a lawsuit brought by Saddam Hussein against 21 European countries on the grounds that the case fell outside its jurisdiction. Saddam's lawyers had claimed that the 21 European countries who had joined the US-led war in Iraq violated his right to life, liberty [...]

Wire services are reporting that US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has ruled that the government can continue to seek the death penalty in the Zacarias Moussaoui case, but that the government aviation witnesses who were improperly coached by a Transportation Security Administration attorney would not be permitted to testify and other aviation related evidence will [...]

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the Iowa Administrative Rules Review Committee has agreed to allow a set of water quality rules to go into effect on March 22. The rules will bring Iowa into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) . Amongst other differences, Iowa laws had been operating with a presumption that [...]

Judge James Ware of the US District Court of the Northern District of California said Tuesday after hearing arguments by Google and US Department of Justice lawyers over a government subpoena of search data that he might force Google to hand over a small part of its index of Web sites but would not grant [...]

Progress continues to be made in the investigation into the February 2005 Beirut bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , according to an interim report presented to the UN Security Council Tuesday. Chief UN investigator Serge Brammertz , successor to German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, said that Syria has been complying with almost [...]