Brazil´s environmental authorities reacted with outrage after the discovery of contaminated household waste in a shipment from Germany. The cargo was falsely declared as legitimate goods for recycling.
A Perth judge has ordered that a Muslim woman must remove a full burqa while giving evidence before a jury in a fraud case.
Authorities have used their emergency powers to block domestic access to the WikiLeaks whistleblower website on security grounds, a government official said today.
Two days before same-sex wedding bells were set to begin chiming throughout California, a three-judge panel of federal appellate judges brought the would-be celebrants back to earth and closed, for now anyway, the courthouse doors.
Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil has set up a grammar hotline to help people who have difficulties using Portuguese.
A three-year-old federal law that makes it a crime to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military is unconstitutional, an appeals court panel in California ruled Tuesday.
When a defendant showed up on a traffic charge, Judge Judy delivered a zinger: "If you drive like an idiot ´cause you´re late for work, you´re gonna have to pay for it." Then she piled on: "You can see your picture on the headlines of the Seattle Times, stupid young man who shouldn´t be driving."
A man who came to Germany in 2002 as a refugee from Rwanda has been charged in a genocide case. German prosecutors say the suspect led three massacres against a minority group as mayor of a Rwandan community in 1994.
Colombia´s constitutional court has declared that a US-Colombian accord from 2009 that gave the American military access to at least seven Colombian bases to be unconstitutional.
A Moscow court gave the government a month to prove that it owns the Kremlin, after descendants of the country´s founding dynasty sued for the right to use the property that their forefathers built and inhabited.
A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday threw out piracy charges against six Somali men captured after an attack on a Navy ship off the coast of East Africa, saying the government had not shown that the men´s actions violated American piracy law.
Brazil´s presidential candidates have taken to the airwaves with the start of daily broadcasts for the 3 October presidential and general elections.
An Irkutsk court on Tuesday sentenced the daughter of a senior local official to three years in prison for killing a pedestrian in a traffic accident — but ruled that she will not begin serving the sentence until 2024 because she has an infant son.
An American Bar Association committee has recommended that the ABA consider accrediting law schools outside the United States, according to a story in Am Law Daily sibling publication The National Law Journal.
Britain could get its first ever privacy law to stop judges creating one by stealth through the courts, a justice minister said.
After 13 years behind bars for trying to break in to a church kitchen to find something to eat, a man who became an example of the harsh sentences allowed by California´s three-strikes law has been ordered released from prison.
Critics of shake-up say changes are devastating for smaller practices, where specialists in family law are often found
Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican and former House majority leader who resigned from Congress in June 2006 in a spectacular fall from political power, will not face federal corruption charges over his dealings with the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, on its return from a summer break, has heard about the siege of Sarajevo.
Natural gas company that had won dismissal of underlying case later sued opposing counsel over comments made in suit
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