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In the first conviction of a Guantánamo detainee before a military commission, an Australian who was trained by Al Qaeda pleaded guilty here Monday to providing material support to a terrorist organization. The guilty plea by the detainee, David Hicks, was the first under a new military commission law passed by Congress in the fall […]

Australian detainee David Hicks has pleaded guilty at a military court at Guantanamo Bay to charges of providing material support for terrorism. The 31-year-old Muslim convert was accused of attending al-Qaeda training camps and fighting with the Taleban. The plea means that Hicks, who has been at the camp for five years, will return to

One of the eight former U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration said yesterday that White House officials questioned his performance in highly partisan political terms at a meeting in Washington in September, three months before his dismissal. John McKay of Washington state, who had decided two years earlier not to bring voter fraud charges

So there I sat, watching the United States government in all its majesty dragging into court the American press (in all its piety), forcing reporters to betray confidences, rifling their files and notebooks, making them swear to their confused memories and motives and burdening their bosses with hefty legal fees — all for the high-sounding

Last year lawyer Michael J. Kline told two brand managers for Coca-Cola Classic that they could sue their company’s calorie-free soda brand, Coca-Cola Zero, for “taste infringement.” Really. And it’s all on camera, too. But lest you think Kline should be sent back to law school — where they teach that class about how it’s

Oracle accused arch-rival SAP of “corporate theft on a grand scale” in a lawsuit filed Thursday against the German software company. The Redwood City software maker said SAP used the log-ins of soon-to-be-ex-Oracle customers to download thousands of copyrighted software products and support materials from Oracle’s own customer support systems, according to the complaint. Oracle,

A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornographic Web sites violates free speech rights, a U.S. federal court ruled Thursday, in a blow to government efforts to restrict Internet smut. A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography Web sites violates free speech rights, a U.S. federal court ruled Thursday, in

Her first-class hotel suite had to have windows that opened, the photos of her needed to be more flattering, the orchestra should be a particular pitch, and she would approach the stage from a certain direction. But despite making many detailed requests about a planned concert series with John Farnham, New Zealand diva Dame Kiri

The government got 10 months of J. Tony Serra’s freedom for his long-running tax boycott. This week, the rebel lawyer from San Francisco struck back with an attempt to get more money for the hours he worked behind bars. Standing in his office before a life-size painting of an orange-clad inmate and two shadowy guards

Mark Kipnis, the former Hollinger lawyer accused of helping Conrad Black and others engineer a $60m fraud at the newspaper publisher, relied heavily on the legal and accounting advice of a top law firm in Canada and KPMG, according to his attorney’s opening defence statement on Wednesday. While prosecutors this week painted Mr Kipnis as