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Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to release unredacted copies of all documents regarding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. In a letter to Gonzales today, the senators said they want to determine whether the Justice Department had replacements in mind when it fired seven of the prosecutors. There already is “substantial […]

Some of the payments at the center of Conrad Black’s criminal fraud trial were reported to U.S. government regulators in a timely fashion and not hidden as prosecutors have suggested, jurors were told on Thursday. Under cross examination, Fred Creasey, a former comptroller at Black’s Canadian holding company Hollinger Inc., was shown a document bearing

Fate brought Harold Hongju Koh to the Yale Law School deanship. He was six years old at the time. The year was 1961, and Eugene V. Rostow — outspoken, energetic and controversial — was dean. During his tenure, Rostow doubled the Yale Law School faculty, transformed the curriculum and rocketed the school to first in

A spokesman for Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric denied reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani had rejected a new draft law that would allow many former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party to regain state jobs. “What some news agencies said quoting who they described as an aide to Sayyed Sistani about his position on the

Private Chinese companies drawn to U.S. initial public offerings by the cachet and strong returns from a U.S. stock offering are being courted by a cadre of American corporate law firms jockeying for a piece of the burgeoning China market. A spate of U.S. IPOs by Chinese companies since last year has engaged lawyers as

In a victory for President Bush, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by suspected terrorists challenging their imprisonment at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At issue are the rights of the prisoners to contest their imprisonment and the rules set up to try them as war criminals. About 400 detainees

The Supreme Court ruled today, in what amounts to a rebuke of the Bush administration, that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide from automobile emissions, and that it has shirked its duty in not doing so. In a 5-to-4 decision, the court found that the Clean Air Act expressly authorizes

The first war-crimes trial here drew outrage Saturday from legal experts who described it as a perversion of the rule of law that may fatally discredit the Pentagon’s already disparaged handling of terrorism suspects. Australian detainee David Hicks, whom prosecutors cast as a highly trained and dangerous Al Qaeda operative, will be out of prison