The Jurist Two tobacco companies filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in order to enjoin a recent opinion by the agency’s advisory committee due…
CBC News Notorious killer and former cult leader Roch Thériault has died of injuries suffered in an altercation Saturday at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick, RCMP say. Cult leader Roch Thériault, shown in a 1981 photo, was serving a life…
From e-mail, to e-shopping, to e-dating, incentive to leave your beloved computer can at times dwindle. It would seem, too, that the law community has caught on to this ‘e’ trend , adding “e-service” to the ever-growing list of electronic…
BBC News A Saudi student charged with plotting to make a bomb and target several locations in the US has appeared in a Texas court. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was arrested on Wednesday and is charged with attempted use of a…
CBC News A University of Manitoba law professor has concerns about a judge’s comments at a sexual assault sentencing. Karen Busby said the remarks by Justice Robert Dewar are a legal throwback to the time when how a woman dressed…
CBC News RCMP in Nova Scotia’s Queens County say they’re investigating a possible homicide after a man told them he was involved in his wife’s death. RCMP won’t confirm that the man is Stephan Bolton, who told a newspaper that he…
BBC News Mexican troops have arrested an alleged drug gang hitman suspected of killing a US immigration agent last week. Julian Zapata Espinoza told soldiers he and other gunmen opened fire on the agent’s car, thinking it belonged to a…
CBC News Amitabh Chauhan, left, and Suganthan Kayilasanathan are charged with gang sexual assault and administering a noxious substance. Doctors accused of sex assault to stay in jail One of the doctors charged last week with drugging and sexually assaulting…
CBC News The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a former Serbian police chief Wednesday of orchestrating the murder of hundreds of ethnic Albanians and the deportation of hundreds of thousands more from Kosovo in 1999. The UN court sentenced Vlastimir Djordjevic…
The Jurist Egypt’s chief prosecutor on Monday requested that Foreign Ministry officials take steps to freeze any foreign assets belonging to former president Hosni Mubarak and his family. Prosecutor Abdel Magid made the request even though Mubarak submitted a declaration of wealth indicating that…