The wheels of justice move slowly sometimes, but not, apparently, as slowly as Webster’s New World Dictionary. Slang has always been a challenge for the courts in cases that involve vulgar ... Read more
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of one of the country’s most stringent abortion laws, an Arkansas ban on the procedure at the 12th week of pregnancy, saying the law was likely to ... Read more
After years of battling in Britain’s courts to avoid deportation to Jordan and a retrial there on terrorist bombing charges, a militant Islamist preacher of Palestinian descent known as Abu Qatada told an ... Read more
A lawyer for the only terrorist detainee to be held at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and then tried in the civilian court system asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to overturn his ... Read more
Former Justice Joan Orie Melvin of State Supreme Court avoided prison time on Tuesday for her campaign corruption conviction but was ordered to send a letter of apology to every judge in the state because she ... Read more
President Mohamed Morsi faced a mounting revolt against Islamist attempts to force out thousands of judges when his own legal adviser quit on Tuesday, three days after the justice minister offered his ... Read more
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s former military leader, Pervez Musharraf, was arrested and moved into police custody on Friday — a move that is unprecedented in a country where the military ... Read more
A retired judge accused of funneling bribes to former Gov. Bill Richardson pleaded no contest on Thursday to misdemeanor misconduct under a plea deal that dismissed four felony charges. The deal for the ... Read more
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In his latest setback since returning from exile last month, the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf quickly fled a courtroom on Thursday after a judge revoked his bail and ... Read more
BERLIN — After weeks of outrage in Germany and Turkey over how seats for members of the foreign news media were allocated at the trial of a prominent neo-Nazi, a state court in Munich said Monday that it ... Read more