Mob case against dockworkers stalls
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Two years ago, federal prosecutors boldly proclaimed a civil racketeering lawsuit against the mighty International Longshoremen's Union that would "once and for all" shatter alleged mob control on the nation's docks.
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The case against Mark Thatcher, a British businessman who is being charged for allegedly bankrolling an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, has been postponed in the Wynberg Magistrate&#39;s Court.
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By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 18--When the neighbors of a proposed sewage treatment plant for Port  Wentworth got wind of its location, they got concerned.
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LOS ANGELES _ Justice delayed may be justice denied _but at the end of the day it is incontestably better than nothing. Societies that disrespect the professionalism of their courts ultimately court catastrophe.
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A Metropolitan Police commander defends action taken last week against crime gangs thought to be involved in child trafficking.
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The rulings, the latest legal setbacks for the governmentâs effort to bring war crimes charges against detainees, could stall the militaryâs prosecutions at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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An English court postponed judgement on whether to quash a decision by prosecutors not to charge the police officers who shot dead a Brazilian man they mistook for a suicide bomber last year.
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A labor scandal involving workers kept in slave-like conditions will result in just a handful of prosecutions.
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A prosecutor has appealed a decision to keep the judge in the case of seven police officers accused of a fatal post-Katrina shooting, further delaying the trial, a defense lawyer said.
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The trial of a man charged with 29 murders in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack was delayed indefinitely Wednesday because the defendant's senior lawyer said he was too ill to work.
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Officials in New Jersey who are struggling to combat witness intimidation have long been concerned about cases involving one lawyerâs clients, many of them gang members.
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Accused mob boss John "Junior" Gotti   eluded conviction for a third time in a row on Wednesday --   matching his late father's record -- when a federal judge   declared a mistrial after jurors were deadlocked.
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Lawyers are mobilizing to press the rights of victims of a Chinese slave labor scandal that has unleashed widespread outrage, while prosecutors vowed on Wednesday to punish officials tied to the exploitation.
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By Paul T. Rosynsky  OAKLAND -- A lawsuit challenging City Attorney John Russo's decision to invalidate a petition drive against the 3,100-unit Oak to Ninth housing development will proceed through the court system, an Alameda County Superior Court Judge decided late Thursday.
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The attempt to dismiss the case revolving around child molestation allegations against the King of Pop were refused by Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville on Thursday.
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The court case against Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who was severely injured in police custody, was delayed on Wednesday when state lawyers did not turn up, defense attorneys said.
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Prosecutors are to continue presenting their case against a man accused of killing five women in Suffolk.