Court Rules for Islanders  Evicted in U.S. Base Deal
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.
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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that foreign-born prisoners seized as potential terrorists and held in Guantanamo Bay may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a key victory for President Bush's anti-terrorism plan.
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A federal appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday that a U.S. citizen  in U.S. military custody in Iraq has the right to challenge his detention in a federal court.
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A court in Indonesia has ruled that the detention of five executives of an American gold-mining company over a pollution scare was illegal.
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"The US admits it has no reason to hold these men, but the inaction of the international community has left them stranded. "The prolonged detention of these men is unconscionable"  A group of lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees on Friday criticized a US decision to transfer a group of former inmates to Albania. via Raw Story
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A court ruling in New York may cause office tenants to think twice about overstaying their leases, or âholding overâ in their spaces.
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The United States has agreed to hand over to France the last three French detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, judicial officials said Tuesday.
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The United States Supreme Court agreed to hear claims of GuantÃ¡namo detainees that they had a right to challenge their detention in American courts.
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A US court rules that a Cuban, wanted on charges of bombing a plane by Cuba and Venezuela, should be set free.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Supreme Court ordered a halt to the eviction of ethnic Tamils from the capital, as the United States and the European Union condemned Colombo&#39;s treatment of the minority community.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge issued a   preliminary ruling on Thursday that temporarily blocks the U.S.   administration's plan to allow oil development in the sensitive   wetlands near vast Teshekpuk Lake in Arctic Alaska.
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A three-judge panel yesterday cleared a legal path for the Expos to move to Washington by ruling against an attempt by the team&#39;s former owners to keep the franchise in Montreal.
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A Palm Beach County judge has ruled that approximately 4,500 Florida residents are entitled to $1.6 million in damages from one of the nation&#39;s largest apartment complex owners, which
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A U.S. military judge dismissed all charges yesterday against a Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that his war-crimes trial cannot move forward under the current military commissions law, a decision that could delay future legal proceedings at the U.S. detention facility.
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A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the
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Six men guilty of sex crimes on remote Pitcairn Island will remain free till a legal appeal is decided. The verdicts were read out yesterday by New Zealand judges who had sat in makeshift courts in the Pitcairn
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A US court backs a law denying Guantanamo Bay detainees the right to challenge their detention.