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Former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio on Tuesday began serving a six-year sentence for insider trading after the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied Monday his request...

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sunday denied entry to and deported the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk . Falk was attempting to enter...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday held in Associated Press v. United States Department of Justice that the petition for commuted sentence of charged Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh [CNN...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday granted  prosecutors' petition for an en banc rehearing on whether the insider trading conviction of former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio [JURIST news...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday acquitted Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski of charges related to the deaths of seven ethnic Albanian civilians, but sentenced...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI, says that a viable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement between the US and Iraq governing future US troop presence in the country...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday released declassified portions of last month's decision that a US Combatant Status Review Tribunal had improperly designated a Chinese Uighur Muslim...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday ordered the US government to release or transfer a Chinese Uighur Muslim detained at Guantanamo Bay, ruling that Huzaifa Parhat...

US Solicitor General Paul Clement announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his post, effective June 2. Perhaps best-known for his Supreme Court advocacy of Bush Administration positions on rights and procedures...

The Federal Court of Malaysia Wednesday rejected an appeal by five ethnic Indian protesters being detained by Malaysian authorities under a controversial security law. The five detainees, prominent members of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) [advocacy...