Brendan MacWade et al. v. Raymond Kelly, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Richard Berman, December 2, 2005 [holding that random police searches of bags on the New York City subway system are a...

Voting Rights Act Section 5 Recommendation Memorandum, US Department of Justice staff, December 12, 2003, disclosed December 2, 2005 [opposing a controversial 2003 Texas redistricting plan as violative of the Voting Rights Act and concluding that Texas "has not met...

Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another, Constitutional Court of South Africa, December 1, 2005 [ruling that it is unconstitutional to prohibit gay couples from marrying and giving the South African parliament one year to amend the...

Samuel A. Alito to the US Solicitor General, Memo re: Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians, US Department of Justice, May 30, 1985 [advocating a gradual challenge to the fringes of Roe v. Wade, rather than an all-out assault on...

List of "Ghost Prisoners" Possibly in CIA Custody, Human Rights Watch, November 30, 2005 . Review the full list....

Prosecutor v. Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala, Isak Musliu et al., International Criminal Tribunal for ths Former Yugoslavia, November 30, 2005 [convicting Haradin Bala of torture, cruel treatment and murder at a prison camp in Kosovo run by the Kosovo Liberation...

Human Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terror, Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia, Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture, University of Melbourne, November 29, 2005 [accusing the current Australian Liberal party government of pursuing laws - including...

US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's responses to the US Senate Judiciary Committee nomination questionnaire, released November 30, 2005. Read the full text of the answered questionnaire ....

Lincoln Property Co. v. Christophe Roche, Supreme Court of the United States, November 29, 2005 . Read the Court's opinion...

AP is reporting that Virginia Governor Mark Warner has granted clemency to Robin Lovitt , a convicted killer who would have become the 1,000th person executed in the US since the US Supreme Court reauthorized...