Mike Corder

April 02, 2010 | Law.com

The International Criminal Court announced Thursday that it will investigate members of Kenya's two ruling parties on charges that they instigated violence that killed more than 1,000 people after the disputed 2007 presidential election. Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said he has a list of 20 possible suspects that includes leaders of President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity and Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement.

By Mike Corder

3 minute read

September 15, 2011 | Law.com

A Dutch court has ordered the government to compensate the widows of seven villagers who were summarily executed and a man shot and wounded in a notorious 1947 massacre during Indonesia's battle for independence from colonial rule. The landmark ruling is the first time the Dutch government has been held responsible by a court for the massacre.

By Mike Corder

3 minute read

December 14, 2007 | Law.com

The International Court of Justice affirmed Thursday that three islands in a disputed archipelago belong to Colombia, and said it would rule on a disagreement between Colombia and Nicaragua over other islands in the chain and the two countries' maritime border. In 2003, Nicaragua invited oil companies to drill near the archipelago, angering Colombian officials. The islands are 480 miles northwest of Colombia and 140 miles off the coast of Nicaragua.

By Mike Corder

3 minute read

May 17, 2011 | Law.com

The International Criminal Court prosecutor has asked judges to issue arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and two other senior members of his regime, saying Gadhafi's forces attacked civilians in their homes, shot at demonstrators, shelled funeral processions and deployed snipers to kill people leaving mosques.

By Mike Corder

3 minute read

August 23, 2004 | Law.com

Sharman Networks, the Australian-based distributor of file-swapping giant Kazaa, welcomed Friday a U.S. court's ruling that two of its rivals -- Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. -- are not legally liable for the songs, movies and other copyright works shared online by their users. Rod Dorman, lead trial counsel for Sharman Networks in the United States, said Sharman would now seek a U.S. court ruling that the Kazaa software is legal.

By Mike Corder

3 minute read

November 19, 2009 | Law.com

In The Hague, the United States attended a meeting of the International Criminal Court's management board for the first time Wednesday in a sign it has stopped shunning the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal. The U.S. has not ratified the court's founding treaty, the Rome Statue, partly because of fears the court could become a forum for politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. troops. U.S. war crimes ambassador Stephen Rapp is expected to make a statement to the assembly on Thursday.

By Mike Corder

2 minute read

December 04, 2009 | Law.com

Nigerian villagers and a Dutch environmental group pleaded with a Hague court Thursday to hear their case against Royal Dutch Shell for allegedly polluting their land with oil that gushed from a broken pipeline. The case at The Hague Civil Court is unusual in that it seeks to hold the Dutch-based multinational responsible for environmental devastation allegedly caused in Nigeria by its Nigerian subsidiary.

By Mike Corder

3 minute read

December 01, 2004 | Legaltech News

Launching their defense in a landmark piracy case, the owners of file-swapping giant Kazaa claimed Tuesday their software, which lets users exchange music and movies online, is no different from video recorders. Lawyer Tony Meagher cited a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said Sony wasn't liable when people used its Betamax VCR to copy movies illegally. The Australian recording industry is suing Kazaa's owners for widespread copyright infringements.

By Mike Corder

3 minute read

July 14, 2008 | Law.com

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges Monday against Sudan's president, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation. Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked a three-judge panel at the ICC to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir to prevent the slow deaths of some 2.5 million people forced from their homes in Darfur and still under attack from government-backed janjaweed militia.

By Mike Corder

6 minute read

June 28, 2011 | Law.com

International judges ordered the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi, a son and a key aide Monday for allegedly murdering Libyan civilians, as NATO planes pounded Gadhafi's compound and world leaders increased calls for him to resign. Warrants from The Hague court could turn the three men into internationally wanted suspects, potentially complicating efforts to end the fighting.

By Mike Corder

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