The Supreme Court is hearing a case challenging the Stolen Valor Act, a law that makes it a crime to lie about receiving military awards. The law is being challenged in court by Xavier Alvarez, who, while serving as a public official in California, introduced himself to an audience by saying, 'I'm a retired Marine for 25 years. I was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.' Alvarez had never served in the military.

A British judge approved the use of Facebook to serve legal documents.

The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans at the weekend had been unhappy to be sent to serve in Afghanistan, a Seattle lawyer says.

Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor should serve 80 years after his conviction at The Hague for war crimes in the Sierra Leone civil war, prosecutors say.