The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday defeated a bill to amend the Nigerian constitution that would have allowed current President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for a third term in office. The bill, which failed...
Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform, President George W. Bush, May 15, 2006 [announcing the deployment of up to 6000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border as a prime element in a wide-ranging plan to 'fix' problems created...
List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006, US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006. Read the full list of names. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
The Pentagon Monday released the names of 759 current and former Guantanamo prisoners pursuant to a court-approved agreement with the Associated Press, which had separately sued the Defense Department under the Freedom of Information Act to...
Notice of appeal by Zacarias Moussaoui of order denying motion by Zacarias Moussaoui to withdraw guilty plea, and judgment, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, May 12, 2006. Read the full text of Moussaoui's notice of...
A spokesman for Thailand's three highest courts Saturday called for the current members of the country's much-maligned Election Commission to resign ahead of new elections ordered earlier this week by the country's Constitutional Court after...
UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer told the BBC Saturday that the government was considering introducing legislation that would prevent the Human Rights Act - the UK statute that took effect in 2000 implementing the European...
US v. Microsoft Corporation, Joint Status Report on Microsoft's Compliance with the Final Judgments, US Department of Justice, May 12, 2006 [asking for a two-year extension of a Microsoft antitrust order because the software giant has been slow to supply...
Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi v. George Bush et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmett Sullivan, May 12, 2006 [staying the Guantanamo military commission trial of a charged Saudi Arabian pending a ruling by the...
Bancoult, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs EWHC 1038, UK High Court of Justice, Divisional Court, May 11, 2006 [ruling that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians...
