The corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resumed Friday but was immediately postponed to February 27. Judges for the tenth section of the Milan Tribunal postponed the...
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Supreme Court hears arguments in interstate radioactive waste disposal suit
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Alabama v. North Carolina , the Court heard arguments on an interstate dispute over...
Italian judges announced Friday that the corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will resume on December 4. The trial had been temporarily halted after the...
Top Italy lawmaker to support Berlusconi judicial reform proposals
President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini said Tuesday that he would support legislation to limit the length of trials in the country. The reforms were proposed by...
Germany court rules Holocaust survivors eligible for pensions
The Federal Social Court of Western Germany ruled Tuesday that Jewish-German Holocaust survivors as a class are eligible to collect old-age pension benefits. Specifically, the court found that although the...
Venezuela to renew extradition request for anti-Castro militant
Venezuela will renew calls for the US to extradite anti-Castro Cuban exile and Venezuelan national Luis Posada Carriles following a new indictment ordering Posada to stand trial in Texas, Venezuelan...
Contesting Impunity: Damages Against Senior Officials in National Security Cases
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law says that the cases of Arar v. Ashcroft, heard en banc by the Second Circuit last Tuesday, and Iqbal v. Ashcroft, argued before the US Supreme Court last...
US voters consider contentious ballot measures amidst presidential race
Voters in 36 US states considered more than 160 initiatives and referenda at the polls Tuesday, including ballot measures dealing with gay rights, abortion, affirmative action and illegal immigration . Probably the most closely watched...
The number of extrajudicial killings in Colombia at the hands of the Colombian military has almost doubled since 1997, according to a new report by a international conglomerate of human rights workers....
Argentina judge declares former Iranian president 'fugitive'
Argentinean judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral declared former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other Iranian officials fugitives from justice on Friday. The nine failed to respond to arrest warrants issued...