Citizens for Equal Protection et al. v. Bruning et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, July 14, 2006 [restoring a ban on same-sex marriage approved by Nebraska voters in 2000 as a state constitutional amendment but...

JURIST is back online after a major power failure in central Pittsburgh early Thursday knocked out power to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and surrounding campus buildings. JURIST's staff dispersed to remote locations during the...

Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, passed by the the US House of Representatives, July 13, 2006 ....

Eloise Pepion Cobell et al. v. Dirk Kempthorne et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 11, 2006 ....

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process, US Senate Judiciary Committee, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of witnesses'...

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday directed that US District Judge Royce Lamberth , the outspoken jurist presiding over the 10-year old Indian Trust case involving the alleged mismanagement of American...

Application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to the Treatment of Detainees in the Department of Defense, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, July 7, 2006 [directing that all DOD personnel adhere to Article 3 standards on...

The US Defense Department has announced that three US servicemen have been charged with rape and murder and a fourth has been charged with dereliction of duty in connection with the March 12 rape and murder of an Iraqi...

A Mexican judge Saturday cleared ex-president Luis Echeverria of genocide charges in connection with his role in repressing a 1968 student revolt while he was the country's Interior Minister. According to Echeverria's lawyer, the judge...

Two committees of the US Senate are set for hearings on draft legislation governing trial procedures for Guantanamo detainees after the US Supreme Court ruled June 29 in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that President Bush's military commissions as currently...