The International Criminal Court announced Tuesday that construction on 12 holding cells has been completed, and the world's first general international war crimes court is ready to use them to detain leaders of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda, for whom the court issued arrest warrants last year. The ICC hopes to arrest the [...]

An Oregon chapter of the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that the National Security Agency had illegally wiretapping several conversations between the charity and its attorneys. The complaint alleges that the NSA failed to get a court order authorizing electronic surveillance thereby failing to follow procedures required [...]

Britain's High Court Tuesday blocked a four week suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone ordered by a case tribunal of the Adjudication Panel for England last week for bringing his office into disrepute. The suspension, scheduled to begin March 1, stemmed from an exchange between Livingstone and a Jewish journalist. The High Court deferred the [...]

The Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred a ruling on petitions brought against the state of emergency declared by President Gloria Arroyo last week. Arroyo, who today said the decree will remain in effect at least until Saturday , said the move was necessary to resist a coup plot which resulted in the arrest of [...]

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee holding a second hearing Tuesday on the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program appeared frustrated by the lack of information released by the Bush administration. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) accused the White House of "running roughshod over the Constitution and hiding behind inflammatory rhetoric demanding Americans blindly trust [...]

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new rule that lowers the acceptable level of hexavalent chromium that can be present in a workplace. Previously, the acceptable level was 52 micrograms per cubic meter of air, per a rule originally issued in 1971. Under the new [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Randall v. Sorrell to decide whether Vermont's Act 64 campaign law , which places strict caps on campaign contributions and spending, should be upheld. The justices appeared skeptical of the state's limits with Justice Antonin Scalia calling the strict law "very unusual in an American [...]

The UK House of Lords Tuesday voted by a margin of 160-156 to remove references to the "glorification" of terrorism from the Terrorism Bill , proposed after the London bombings last July. The Lords received the bill after the UK House of Commons had previously voted to keep the offense among the bill's provisions, which [...]

The 12th General Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) ended Tuesday with members of Arab states calling on the United Nations to adopt a resolution which bans offenses against religion, including Islam. The member countries harshly criticized the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad printed in European publications and urged the UN to bring individuals who [...]

Algerian Islamist Rachid Ramda has gone on trial in France for his alleged role in several deadly bomb attacks in Paris in 1995. Ramda was arrested in Britain in 1995, but delayed his extradition ten years until December 2005 with a series of appeals. He is charged with criminal association with a terrorist organization and [...]