In re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, Barnett v. Merck & Co., US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, August 30, 2006 [rejecting as "grossly excessive" a $50 million jury award against Merck in compensatory damages for a retired...

National Resources Defense Council v. Environmental Protection Agency et al., United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 29, 2006 [upholding a pesticide rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, saying that the regulation does not...

Australian legal and political observers appeared split Tuesday in the wake of the Australian government's first control order under new anti-terror laws limiting the activities of an uncharged terror suspect. A court Monday issued the order at...

Guantanamo's oldest known detainee was among the five US-held prisoners transferred to Afghanistan last week, according to his lawyer who found out about the release over the weekend in a US Department of Justice e-mail. Peter King...

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called for broader US access to European airline passenger data Tuesday in a Washington Post editorial, citing the recently-alleged plot by UK terror suspects to detonate explosives aboard US airliners flying...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday welcomed Friday's agreement by a UN General Assembly committee on the draft terms of a new UN disability rights treaty. In a statement released by his official spokesman in...

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the leftist candidate challenging the results of Mexico's disputed July 2 presidential election , has rejected Monday's ruling by the country's Federal Electoral Tribunal reducing the...

The Prosecutor vs. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Document Containing the Charges, Article 61(3)(a), International Criminal Court, August 28, 2006 . Read the...

League of Women Voters of Florida et al. v. Sue M. Cobb, United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Judge Patricia Seitz, August 28, 2006 [rejecting Florida's Third-Party Registration Law, which had imposed steeply scaled fines on organizations and...

Nova Health Systems et al. v. W.A. Drew Edmundson, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, August 25, 2006 [refusing to grant an injunction to block a new Oklahoma law requiring parental notification at least 48 hours in...