Recent Updates
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UN court to hear Georgia's request about Russia
Legal World 08/19/2008The U.N.'s highest court has scheduled three days of hearings next month about Georgia's request to order Russia to stop attacks on ethnic Georgians.Georgia claims the attacks amount to a persistent campaign of racial discrimination.The International...
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UN court to hear Georgia's request about Russia
Legal World 08/17/2008The U.N.'s highest court has scheduled three days of hearings next month about Georgia's request to order Russia to stop attacks on ethnic Georgians.Georgia claims the attacks amount to a persistent campaign of racial discrimination.The International...
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Court: Saudi Arabia not liable in Sept. 11 attacks
Legal World 08/14/2008A federal appeals court has ruled that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes cannot be held liable in the Sept. 11 attacks.The appeals court issued the ruling Thursday, saying the Saudi defendants are protected by sovereign immunity. It also agreed wi...
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Belarus court sentences U.S. lawyer to three years
Legal World 08/10/2008A court in Belarus jailed a U.S. lawyer for three years on Monday on charges of industrial espionage and carrying forged documents, a verdict certain to plunge relations between the two countries deeper into crisis.The trial of New York-based lawyer ...
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Deposed Thai PM flees to Britain amid court case
Legal World 08/10/2008Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his family have fled to the United Kingdom, the former leader said Monday after he and his wife skipped a hearing on corruption charges in a Thai court.A handwritten statement from Thaksin issued Mon...
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Spanish court opens second Tibet probe
Legal World 08/06/2008Spain's National Court on Tuesday said it will review allegations that two Chinese government ministers and five other officials were responsible for repressing protests against Chinese rule in Tibet earlier this year.Two Spanish pro-Tibet groups fil...
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German court orders treatment over pope incident
Legal World 08/05/2008A court ordered a German who jumped a security barrier and grabbed hold of Pope Benedict XVI's popemobile last year in the Vatican to undergo treatment but stopped short of sending him to a psychiatric hospital.Security guards swiftly tackled and pin...
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S. Korea to end ban on revealing sex of babies
Legal World 07/31/2008South Korea's Constitutional Court overturned a ban on doctors telling parents the gender of unborn babies, saying Thursday the country has grown out of a preference for sons and that the restriction violates parents' right to know.South Korea introd...
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German court partially overturns smoking ban
Legal World 07/30/2008German states must either ban smoking entirely in all restaurants and pubs or relax their rules affecting single-room establishments, the country's highest court ruled Wednesday.Most German state smoking laws permit larger venues to provide smoking r...
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7 suspected members of Basque group ETA jailed
Legal World 07/28/2008Spain's National Court on Sunday jailed seven people on charges of belonging to a militant cell of the Basque separatist group ETA.The cell is believed responsible for a string of recent bombings, and investigators believe its members were planning m...
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US racketeering law is tested in Moscow
Legal World 07/28/2008Russian authorities are hoping to make legal history by applying an American racketeering law in a Moscow court as they seek to recover billions of dollars in damages from the Bank of New York Mellon.Hearings resume Monday in the Russian Federal Cust...
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Iran Executes 29 Convicts in One Day
Legal World 07/28/2008Iran hanged 29 people at dawn on Sunday after they had been convicted of murder, drug trafficking and other crimes, state run television reported.All were hanged inside Evin prison, north of the capital. The hangings were carried out after the death ...