Review of the second periodic report of the United States, UN Committee Against Torture, May 5/8, 2006 [summary of proceedings, US testimony and questions/comments of committee members on how the US has implemented the provisions of the Convention against Torture...

The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called several of the country's mujahedeen leaders criminals unfit for public office. Female colleagues of...

Motion filed together with Affidavit by Zacarias Moussaoui to Withdraw Guilty Plea, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, May 8, 2006. Excerpt:As stated in the attached notarized affidavit from Moussaoui dated May 6, 2005, Moussaoui wishes...

Apple Corps Limited v. Apple Computer Limited, May 8, 2006 [ruling that Apple Computer did not breach a 1991 trademark agreement with Apple Corps, the record label owned by the Beatles and their families, when the computer company began promoting...

Smelt et al. v. Orange County California et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, May 5, 2006 [dismissing a challenge to federal and California laws prohibiting same-sex marriage, saying that the plaintiffs must await the outcome...

Immigration Law Sanctions and Enforcement in Selected Foreign Countries, Law Library of Congress Directorate of Legal Research, April 2006 [report for Congress and released by the US House Judiciary Committee May 5, 2006, showing that several countries have harsher policies...

Supplemental Submission to the Committee Against Torture, Huamn Rights Watch, April 2006 [outlining "new laws, policies, and practices that reflect the continuing failure of the U.S. to fully accept its obligations under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman...

Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad, American Civil Liberties Union, April 2006 [report to the UN Committee against Torture concluding that "The U.S. government is in clear and unequivocal violation of its...

JURIST , the non-commercial legal news and research service powered by law students led by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law , is in a dead heat with US legal television network...

Al Rawi & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs & Anor, Supreme Court of Judicature Queen's Bench Division, Divisional Court, May 4, 2006 [rejecting the petition of a group of British...