Working Text, International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, August 28,...

State of Loiusiana v. All Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers Authorized and Licensed to Do Business in the State of Louisiana, Supreme Court of Lousiana, August 25, 2006 [upholding the constitutionality of two state laws extending the time limit for...

Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock told Australian TV Saturday that he has received assurances from the US government that it will not seek the death penalty in an anticipated new military trial of Australian Guantanamo Bay...

The Louisiana Supreme Court Friday upheld the constitutionality of two state laws extending the time limit for making insurance claims for damages suffered in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The rulings allow homeowners,...

A UN General Assembly panel late Friday approved by consensus a draft disability rights treaty, clearing the way for its formal adoption by the Assembly at its 61st annual session beginning in September prior to being open...

At the end of the first US trial of a foreign head of government since that of Panama's Manuel Noriega, a US federal judge in San Francisco Friday sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ...

Legal papers belonging to Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks were among those seized by US investigators in a probe into the June suicides of three other Guantanamo inmates - a Yemeni and...

US v. Philip Morris, United States District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 17, 2006 ....

Matthew Lee v. Ruth Ann Minner, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion ....

Kay Staley v. Harris County, Texas, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, August 15, 2006 [ruling that a Bible included in a monument in front of a Harris County, Texas, civil courthouse promotes Christianity and thereby violates...