Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic requested a recess in his war crimes trial Tuesday, to allow him time to recover from the strain of defending himself. Milosevic submitted a report from his doctors to the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , recommending "a suspension of physical and mental activities for a minimum [...]

The South Jakarta District Court Tuesday dropped a case brought by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment against the Newmont Mining Corporation , the Indonesian subsidiary of a Denver-based company, saying the case should be settled through international arbitration or conciliation. The Indonesian government, which still may appeal the case, filed the $133.4 million civil suit [...]

Eight advocacy groups Monday filed a complaint in US district court on behalf of the 6.4 million people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid to make sure that no elderly or disabled Americans lose access to prescription drugs when they enroll in the new Medicare drug plan. US Health and Human Services Secretary Mike [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, three judges from the Kenyan Constitutional Court ruled that a legal challenge to the legitimacy of the upcoming Kenyan national referendum on the proposed draft constitution was invalid and that neither the legislative nor judicial branches of government could stop the referendum. Activists from the Kenyan Yellow Movement had challenged the [...]

The Libyan Supreme Court Tuesday postponed its verdict until January 31 for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had received death sentences following their convictions for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus as part of an experiment to find a cure for AIDS. The medics appealed their death sentence [...]

Major US media organization Dow Jones & Co. , publisher of the Wall Street Journal and other publications, on Monday challenged efforts by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to keep documents secret in the CIA leak case , asking a federal court to deny Fitzgerald's motion to bar public disclosure of documents. The proposed protective order [...]

The US Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a compromise offered by senators in response to last Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts in order to contest the legality of their detentions. The Graham amendment to the 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill , if signed into law, would [...]

Hate Crimes Statistics Report, Federal Bureau of Investigation, November 14, 2005 . Read the full text of the FBI report here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

French President Jacques Chirac Monday delivered his first televised address since a recent surge of violence began in France nineteen days ago, promising that justice would be meted out to those responsible for the riots. "Those who make attacks against property and people must know that in a republic, they cannot violate the law without [...]

In a report released Monday, the US Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) characterized the Federal Drug Administration's review of the birth control drug Plan B for over-the-counter sale as "unusual" in procedure. The GAO report alleges that FDA management was more involved in Plan B approval than usual; that the decision not to approve the drug [...]