Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission, Supreme Court of the United States, January 23, 2006 [ruling remanding case to the US DC District Court to reexamine whether the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 violates the First...

Letter from Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. to Senator Arlen Specter, with responses to additional questions posed by senators following his confirmation hearings, January 20, 2005. Read the full text of the responses . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

US v. Joseph Bibee et al., United States District Court for the District of Oregon, January 19, 2006 [indictment of eleven people alleged to have carried out a series of arsons causing millions of dollars in damage in five Western...

Gitanjali Deane and Lisa Polak et al. v. Frank Conoway et al., Judge M. Brooke Murdock, Baltimore City Circuit Court, January 20, 2006 [ruling against a 1973 Maryland state law that prohibits same-sex marriage, declaring that it subjects the plaintiff...

Alberto R. Gonzales v. Google, Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, January 18, 2006 [seeking to compel Internet search giant Google to comply with a subpoena issued last summer that the company provide a "multi-stage...

In a last-minute push to regain popular support in the final stages of the Canadian federal election campaign, Prime Minister Paul Martin has accused Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper of planning to pack the Supreme...

Legal Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency Described by the President, US Department of Justice, January 19, 2006 [white paper saying that the NSA activities are supported by the president's position as Commander in Chief and congressional...

Final Assessment Report, International Mission for Iraqi Elections, January 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's...

Memo on rendition and extraordinary rendition, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, December 2005 [concluding that while undertaking or cooperating with extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries where they could face a real risk of torture could never be legal...

World Report 2005, Human Rights Watch, released January 13, 2005 [examining human rights developments in more than 60 countries in 2005, and alleging that the US has made deliberate and blatant use of torture and the inhumane treatment of prisoners...