US Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday praised the role of the civilian criminal justice system in obtaining a guilty plea from suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi. Zazi pleaded guilty on Monday to three criminal charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in the US and to commit murder in a foreign country, as well as of providing material support for al Qaeda
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously in Hertz Corp. v. Friend that, for the purposes of diversity jurisdiction, a corporation´s principal place of business shall be determined by the "nerve center" test.
Victims of employment discrimination are increasingly finding the courthouse door closed, as conservative judges twist the law to throw out civil rights suits on technicalities.
The Haitian judge overseeing the prosecution of 10 US citizens charged with kidnapping in the wake of the January 12 earthquake said he will recommend their provisional release pending the investigation. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil said he will send the recommendation to the prosecutor, who has the ability to object, but ultimately the judge has the final say on whether they are released.
The Iraqi Army’s Fourth Division cordoned off the provincial council building here overnight on Tuesday and showed no sign on Wednesday of leaving. It was the latest in a series of actions by the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki that have infuriated his political opponents, while raising doubts about the strength of the country’s laws and democratic institutions.
Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook and single parent, was days from deploying to Afghanistan last fall when her mother backed out of an agreement to take care of her 10-month-old son for the duration of her one-year tour.
As Hollywood´s most famous power couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are used to every aspect of their life together being dissected in the world´s media, whether it´s rumours over yet another adoption, the meaning of a new tattoo, or their feelings about the other´s exes.
We would walk into a bank with firearms, tell people to get down, take the money and run,” he said the other day, recalling five robberies in rural Nebraska in 1997 and 1998 that yielded some $200,000 and more than a decade in federal prison.
One of the respondents to my column on United Citizens, the corporate campaign funding case, declares, “Professor Fish is obviously an apologist for this bad decision” (Mark), while others are just as confident that I tip my hand in the other direction when I refer to the majority as “the usual suspects.”
Bank of America´s former Chief Executive Ken Lewis now holds the inglorious distinction of being the first top figure from a major bank to be sued by the government over the financial industry´s debacle of the past 18 months.
The transfer ban imposed by Fifa on Chelsea over the transfer of the promising teenager Gaël Kakuta from Lens was today overturned on appeal. The court of arbitration for sport said Fifa´s ban on Chelsea signing any new players until 2011 would be annulled after Kakuta, Lens and Chelsea all agreed that the players´ contract with the French club was not valid.
In a case that could resonate in Washington, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the state’s five-year-old medical malpractice law because it limited compensation to injured patients for pain, suffering and other non-economic harms.
Fears about financial crises in the wobbling economies of southern Europe and an unexpected increase in U.S. jobless claims sent global stock markets reeling Thursday, posing new challenges for the European Union and the U.S. economic recovery.
A total of 134,142 people were declared insolvent in 2009 as the continued credit squeeze drove the figure above the previous record set in 2006
Criminal charges against Michael Jackson´s personal physician will be filed "in the near future," in connection with the pop star´s death, law enforcement sources said, but there is confusion over when he will be booked.
The Swiss Federal Council announced Wednesday that it would accept two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
Haitian authorities confirmed Sunday that 10 US citizens have been arrested after attempting to bus 33 children across the border into the neighboring Dominican Republic.
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