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A federal grand jury today indicted Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, after a two-year investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s identity, but spared — at least for now –President Bush’s top political strategist, Karl Rove. Libby was indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false […]

With the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as a nominee to the Supreme Court, attention is now turning to President Bush’s other possible choices, and the field is wide open, legal experts say. Although some senators want Bush to nominate another woman as a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who is retiring, Miers’s pullout could

The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity met for three hours Wednesday with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and his deputies, adjourning for the day without announcing any action. Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared President Bush’s top political adviser

The New York Times this morning reports that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby apparently first learned that Joseph Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent from none other than his boss — Vice President Cheney. This new revelation suggests that special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity has reached even closer

In 1996, Eugene Stearns and his Miami-based law firm joined a team of lawyers representing thousands of gas station owners around the country who claimed they’d been ripped off by oil giant Exxon. Just before Stearns and his firm signed on as lead trial counsel with the team, which included Pertnoy Solowsky & Allen of

A mum who worked part-time at a top City law firm after having a baby has won a landmark legal battle over her right to work flexi hours, it was revealed today. Michelle Langton, 34, worked as a senior manager at Herbert Smith for six years until January last year. In April 2002 she returned

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and his six co-defendants announced yesterday that they would boycott their trial unless the court was moved to another country for their own safety. Their decision followed the kidnapping and murder last week of Saadoun al-Janabi, the lawyer of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former head of Saddam’s revolutionary court. Al-Janabi was

Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) appeared in court Friday for the first time in a money laundering and conspiracy case against him, but his arraignment was postponed after his lawyer asked the judge, a Democrat, to recuse himself. In a brief statement read to reporters afterward, DeLay harshly denounced the prosecutor in the

A defence lawyer involved in the trial of Saddam Hussein is among eight people Iraq’s Interior Ministry says have been abducted by armed kidnappers. According to a report by The Associated Press, police in Baghdad identified the lawyer as Saadoun Sghaiyer al-Janabi, the counsel for Awad al-Bandar, one of seven Baath Party officials being tried

The moment Saddam Hussein appeared, a Shi’ite housewife spat on the screen and then sat gnawing her fingers, seething, as her family crowded around the television. When the judge addressed the ousted president as “Mr. Saddam,” she burst: “The beast Saddam, you mean!” Across the Tigris River in the mostly Sunni Arab district of Azamiyah,