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TIME magazine said in a statement Thursday that it will turn over notes by reporter Matthew Cooper to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name despite Cooper's own willingness to go to jail rather than...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tuesday rejected a lawsuit against the Japanese government filed by 15 Asian women who claim Japanese soldiers forced them to act as "comfort women" , or...

Castle Rock v. Gonzales, Supreme Court of the United States, June 27, 2005 [ruling 7-2 that a woman whose estranged husband murdered her three children did not have a constitutional right to police enforcement of the restraining order in place...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that police officers are immune from suits based on how they enforce restraining orders. In a 7-2 decision the Court said that a woman whose estranged husband murdered her three children did not...

Iraqi deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi said on Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein will begin within 90 days, before the end of September 2005. The government had previously stated...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday in Kelo v. New London that a local government authority can expropriate private property - land, homes and businesses - for private redevelopment that confers economic benefits on the...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet suffered a stroke Tuesday and was taken to the hospital a day before the Santiago Appeals Court was to consider whether he could be tried for crimes against his...

Leading Thursday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Georgia has warned criminal trial judges to be careful in the way they instruct juries about weighing the value of eyewitness identification. In a decision today, the Court said...

The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that former president Luis Echeverria can be prosecuted for the deaths of student demonstrators killed in 1971. A panel of judges voted 3-2 to allow Echeverria and...

A member of Saddam Hussein's defense team said Sunday that any trial of the former Iraqi dictator should take place not in Iraq, but in Europe. Giovanni di Stefano told a Swedish television interviewer that he would prefer...