CUBAN, GOV’T LAWYER SPAR AT INSIDER-TRADING TRIAL
By DAVID KOENIG Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team owner and business man Mark Cuban stops to chat as he walks out of the federal courthouse during a break in testimony…
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TOP INDONESIA JUDGE ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF GRAFT
By ALI KOTARUMALOS In this Aug 20, 2013 photo, Indonesia’s top judge Akil Mochtar poses for photos during a swearing-in ceremony in Jakarta. Mochtar on Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has been…
GREEK FAR-RIGHT LEADER IMPRISONED PENDING TRIAL
Lawmaker of extremist right-wing Golden Dawn Christos Pappas, center, who the prosecution has described as the party’s second in command, is escorted by anti-terror police to appear in court for…
FRENCH COURT: ID CHECKS ON MINORITIES DEEMED LEGAL
By ELAINE GANLEY CORRECTING LEFT AND RIGHT – Lawyers acting for the plaintiff, Slim ben Achour, left, and Felix de Belloy talk during a press conferene in Paris, Wednesday, Oct.…
VIETNAM DISSIDENT SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN JAIL
By CHRIS BRUMMITT A U.S-trained lawyer and well-known dissident Le Quoc Quan, right, listens to the judge during his trial in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday Oct. 2, 2013. The Hanoi…
LEGAL CHALLENGES OF NEW OHIO EXECUTION DRUG LIKELY
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS FILE – In this November 2005 file photo, the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility is seen through glass from the witness room, in Lucasville,…
SECRETIVE VATICAN BANK TAKES STEP TO TRANSPARENCY
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, file photo, Italian financial police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.…
NC REPUBLICANS VOW TO FIGHT US DOJ OVER VOTER LAWS
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and PETE YOST FILE – In a June 30, 1982 file photo, President Ronald Reagan signs an expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill during a ceremony…