Human rights groups today issued a one-year report card on efforts by Immigration Customs and Enforcement to reform the detention system for aliens facing removal.
Greece´s public sector shut down on Thursday as state employees began a 24-hour strike to protest against the government´s austerity package. Unions are demanding that the measures be abandoned.
A federal judge barred prosecutors on Wednesday from using a crucial witness in the first trial of a former Guantánamo detainee, adding to the fierce debate over whether the government can successfully prosecute terrorist detainees in civilian court.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has promised a sovereignty clause will be included in an EU bill to be introduced into Parliament this year.
Chief justice taps temporary judge to oversee case against Judge Jack T. Camp.
A new report from Public Citizen reveals that the growth of U.S. exports to nations with which the United States does not have Free Trade Agreements (FTA) has outpaced the growth of exports to the 17 U.S. FTA partners, with both services and goods FTA exports lagging.
A Moscow region prosecutor was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday for ordering the destruction of 50,000 mobile phones belonging to Yevroset and seized by police in April 2006.
The latest numbers from the U.S. Sentencing Commission provide new evidence that at least some Federal judges don´t like handing out stiff jail sentences to tax cheats.
The Legal Services Agency (LSA) and the New Zealand Law Society are refusing to say whether three Auckland lawyers who are no longer able to provide legal aid services are being investigated by police.
Court agreement would cap the number of seniority-based layoffs at most L.A. Unified schools, meaning some teachers with fewer years of service could keep their jobs while some with more experience lose theirs.
A Dutch judge on Wednesday turned down demands by a separatist group for the arrest of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia on charges of human rights abuse if he set foot in the Netherlands, a court spokeswoman said.
Lawyers for the federal government clashed with lawyers for a group of California scientists at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday over how much information the government can demand in background checks on potential employees before violating their privacy rights.
White-collar criminal lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic are gearing up for the introduction of a new U.K. Bribery Act, which looks set to generate significant work for teams throughout the U.S. when it comes into force next year.
Courts in the United States and Canada have ordered him to pay Facebook Inc. more than $1-billion for hacking into its network, but a high-living Montreal spammer says the company will not see a cent because he has declared bankruptcy.
A Brazilian university has been ordered to pay $23,600 (£14,840) to compensate a student who was briefly expelled after she went to class in a dress deemed too short by officials.
A Naperville man´s errant egg toss at a DuPage County judge netted him a 90-day jail sentence.
Although trials have been put at risk by jurors using the internet to research cases they´re deciding, judges accept it is inevitable
Yemen´s parliament has delayed a vote on a child-marriage law that would have raised the minimum legal age for marriage to 17.
The man convicted of an attempted car bomb attack in New York´s Times Square has been sentenced to life in prison.
A federal appeals court ruled that a woman cannot sue Yahoo because she didn´t like the results when she searched for her name, Slashdot notes, pointing to the original article in the legal blog Lowering the Bar.
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