A New York judge on Monday ordered Transport Union Workers Local 100 to pay $2.5 million in fines for illegally going on strike in December, bringing New York City's public transport system to a halt. Judge Theodore Jones also suspended automatic dues collection by the union. Jones imposed a $1 million-per-day fine on the union [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, last minute opposition from the UN representatives of both Russia and China has blocked the imposition of proposed UN sanctions against four Sudanese officials accused of intentionally delaying the peace process in the war-torn Darfur region . Russian Ambassador to the UN Andrey Denisov told reporters that Russia felt that the [...]

The UK government said Monday that it plans to intervene in a case brought by a group of British citizens against Saudi Arabian officials who allegedly tortured them to argue that foreign officials who torture British citizens abroad should not be subject to civil lawsuits in British courts. The government is joining a Saudi Arabian [...]

A city court in Siberia where former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is currently in prison ruled Tuesday that his 5-day transfer to solitary confinement earlier this year was unlawful. Khodorkovsky was temporarily held in an isolated cell after prison officials found Justice Ministry documents on prisoners' rights in his cell. The court in Krasnokamensk ruled [...]

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law Monday a bill cracking down on illegal immigration that will prevent illegal aliens from receiving many of the state's services paid for by taxpayers. The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act implements new requirements for contractors doing work for the state who will now have to verify the [...]

US v. Sami Amin Al-Arian, Plea Agreement, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida . Read the full text of the plea agreement . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Gonzales v. Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, April 17, 2006 .Read the per curiam opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railroad v. White , a case in which it will decide which of the three tests adopted by US courts of appeal should determine employer liability for a retaliation claim under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act . [...]

After serving 19 months in a Chinese prison on charges of disclosing military secrets and being told the charges would be dropped last month, New York Times researcher Zhao Yan learned Monday that he may still be tried for his work on an article that appeared in the Times. Chinese prosecutors told lawyers for Zhao [...]

Reformist Egyptian judges Mahmud Mekki and Hisham Al Bastawissi face disciplinary hearings before Justice Minister Mahmud Abuleil, a judicial source reported Monday. The judges may possibly be terminated for leaking information to the press during last year's parliamentary elections when they accused other judges of election fraud . While the Egyptian constitution provides that judges [...]