Judge denies Noriega's repatriation request
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Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega on Friday was denied his request for a speedy return home when his long U.S. prison term for drug trafficking and racketeering ends next month.
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A US judge delays the extradition to France of ex-Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to allow an appeal.
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A judge on Wednesday denied the Bush campaign's request that he order the Federal Election Commission to act on complaints about outside groups spending millions on anti-Bush ads and get-out-the-vote activities.
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A judge rejected a challenge to a transfer of property by the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, saying the plaintiffs lacked standing to claim that the diocese was trying to protect its assets from alleged sex-abuse victims.
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A U.S. judge denied a request on Friday from Poland's government to extradite a Chicago businessman for allegedly soliciting the murder of a former Warsaw police chief, denouncing the key witness as "a known scoundrel" and chastising prosecutors over faulty evidence.
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A Mexican judge issued an injunction on Thursday that could prevent former President Luis Echeverria from facing trial for his alleged role in a 1968 massacre of leftist students.
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An Argentine court rejects a request by India to extradite a suspect in the Bofors corruption case.
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Justice Department lawyers asked a federal court Tuesday to extradite former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega to France when his U.S. prison term ends later this summer.
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A U.S. federal judge on Thursday upheld a government decision to refuse a prominent Swiss Muslim entry into the United States, saying the question of denying visas was best left to the authorities.
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A U.S. military judge rejected an argument that a former driver for Osama bin Laden is a prisoner of war beyond the jurisdiction of a war-crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay and said he can be prosecuted by the court, authorities said Thursday.
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A U.S. judge denied a request by a group of Guantanamo inmates to investigate the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes and said on Wednesday a Justice Department probe of the issue would be sufficient.
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A federal appeals court has denied a request for a rehearing from a freelance video journalist and blogger who has been jailed for three months for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigation.
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France had "taken note" of a U.S. court ruling in the case of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega but an official on Sunday declined comment on his possible extradition to Paris after his U.S. prison term ends.
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A judge in Trinidad refuses bail for three men accused of plotting to blow up JFK airport in New York City.
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A federal judge in Miami today approved the extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France, where he faces a 10-year sentence on a conviction in absentia on money-laundering charges.
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A Philippine judge overruled his own government Wednesday and denied a U.S. request for custody of a Marine who is appealing a local rape conviction.
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A U.S. judge denied on Friday a request from the Polish government for the extradition of a Chicago businessman accused of soliciting the 1998 murder of a former Warsaw police chief, and ordered the man set free.