In re Iraq and Afghanistan Detainees Litigation, Arkan Mohammed Ali, et al., v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, Defendant's and the United States' Motion to Dismiss, March 6, 2006 [motion to dismiss a...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled Tuesday that a British woman could not have frozen embryos conceived with a former partner implanted without his consent. Natallie Evans and Howard Johnston entered an IVF...

The French Conseil d'Etat , the country's highest administrative tribunal, held Monday that Sikhs have to remove their turbans to be photographed for driver's licenses as a matter of public security. The ruling overturned an...

Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006, White House, March 6, 2006 [proposed bill giving the President "line-item" veto power over specific provisions in Congressional spending bills by empowering him to send special proposals on spending earmarks to Congress which would...

Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq, Amnesty International, March 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

The UK House of Lords dealt another major legislative setback to the anti-terrorism policies of the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair Monday by voting down for a second time a bill designed to establish a UK...

Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday signed into law new anti-terrorism legislation giving the Russian police and military broad authority to tap telephone conversations and control electronic communications in the vicinity of counter-terror operations, shoot down...

President Bush announced Monday that he is sending new legislation to Congress that would give him "line-item" veto power over specific provisions in Congressional spending bills, allowing rejection of particular provisions without compromising entire legislative packages. Speaking at...

Parts of a broader, more human picture of the Guantanamo detainees, their frustrations and the cases against them have begun to emerge from the depths of over 5000 pages of documentation on over 300 specific detainees released...

Two separate press-sponsored investigations reported Saturday show a marked increase in secret proceedings in US federal courts in the last few years, mirroring a general trend towards secrecy in the executive branch of government during the Bush presidency. Figures...