The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda has sentenced a Rwandan former official to 25 years in jail for his role in the 1994 genocide. Dominique Ntawukulilyayo, 68, was accused of transporting soldiers to an area of the southern Gisagara district where Tutsis had taken refuge.
Naomi Campbell has been granted special protection when she testifies at a UN war crimes tribunal on Thursday over claims that she was given a blood diamond by Liberia´s former president Charles Taylor.
As an assistant attorney general for New York State, Christopher Wheeler used to spend most of his time arguing in courtrooms in New York City.
An Alameda County, Calif., jury on Monday rejected the sexual harassment and wrongful termination claims a paralegal made against her former boss, Oakland, Calif., lawyer Thomas Ostly, instead awarding him $1.55 million in damages in his defamation counter-suit.
As they debate whether to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, senators are once again revisiting whether she has enough legal experience to serve as a justice.
Lawyers for a former federal judge sentenced to nearly three years in prison for obstruction of justice are seeking to have the sentence overturned.
Plans for an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero moved forward as a city panel opened the way for developers to tear down a building that was struck by airplane debris on Sept. 11.
Two-thirds of Canadians do not know that Canada has no abortion law, according to a new poll that indicates Canadians are woefully misinformed about a landmark ruling in the country´s history.
The Federal Trade Commission´s antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. (INTC-Q20.55-0.32-1.53%) was the harshest yet against the world´s biggest semiconductor maker, which has been battling regulators around the world over charges its tactics hurt consumers.
Prison officials can ban employees from wearing religious headscarves out of concerns they pose a safety risk, a U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Monday in a split 2-1 decision.
Suit claims lawyers who negotiated $3.2 billion settlement hid agreement to take lower fees.
Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle.
Lolita Lebrón, a fiery Puerto Rican nationalist who, along with three others, opened fire inside the US House of Representatives in 1954 wounding five lawmakers, died Sunday following respiratory failure in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was 90.
On Wednesday Kenyans will vote on a new constitution that proposes to take on the corruption, tribalism and impunity that have bedeviled this would-be powerhouse of East Africa since its independence in 1963.
A Melbourne man will stand trial after allegedly faking qualifications as a psychologist to defraud the Victorian WorkCover Authority and Transport Accident Commission (TAC) out of more than $1 million
Spain´s air traffic controllers yesterday voted emphatically in favor of staging a strike during August, in what would be the first official case of downing tools in the sector in the nation’s history.
Twenty professors of legal ethics from law schools around the country are named in a brief filed in Superior Court Monday which accuses former Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. and the magistrates who run the state´s Truancy Court program of attempting to stifle the free-speech rights of two lawyers representing the American Civil Liberties Union and its Rhode Island affiliate.
You´re a human-resources manager at a company in a state that has a law allowing the use of medical marijuana in certain situations. You find out that one of your employees is using marijuana to treat a chronic medical problem, in violation of your company´s drug policy. What should you do?
Crisis-preparedness counseling firms say their business has boomed during the recession, as more managers address frayed workplace emotions amid downsizing.
Demand for shark fin soup in Asia has been blamed for the illegal killing of nearly 300,000 sharks off Brazil, an environmental group has alleged.
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