Newdow v. Congress, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Judge Frank Damrell, June 12, 2006 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by atheist Michael Newdow against the US government arguing that the words "In God We Trust" on...

2005 Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, FBI, June 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

Fourth report of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595 (2005) and 1636 (2005), June 10, 2006 [latest report of the probe headed by Detlev Mehlis looking into the February 14, 2005 bombing in Beirut...

The US Army has announced that three as-yet-unidentified Guantanamo detainees died early this morning local time in apparent multiple suicides. An official investigation is already underway. These are the first suicides confirmed among prisoners at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

Memorandum of Points and Authorities filed as amicus curiae in connection with a Motion for Return of Property filed by Rep. William Jefferson, May 25, 2006, Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the US House of Representatives, Office of General Counsel,...

American Council on Education v. FCC, United States Court of Appeal for the DC Cirucit, June 9, 2006 [upholding the Federal Communication Commission's ability to require broadband Internet companies and Internet phone service providers to comply with the Communications Assistance...

In retaliation for a travel ban imposed on several Belarus leaders by the European Union and the United States , Belarus Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Popov said Thursday that Belarus will impose retaliatory travel bans on...

A Vatican panel Tuesday condemned same-sex marriage as a major threat to the family, along with abortion , contraception and in vitro fertilization. The Pontifical Council for the Family , founded...

Americans United for Church and State et al. v. Prison Fellowship Ministries et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Chief Judge Robert W. Platt, June 2, 2006 [holding that a religious prison organization receiving government...

Cameron Frazier v. Cynthia Alexandre, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, May 31, 2006 [holding that a state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional and...