AP is reporting that the US House of Representatives has defeated a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage . House leaders scheduled the vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment [PDF text;...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that President Bush personally put an end to an internal Justice Department investigation into the role DOJ lawyers played in designing the National Security...
Leandro Despouy, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights' Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, on Friday expressed "serious concern" over a recently passed Egyptian judicial reforms bill . Despouy said:Concerning the text of the...
The Chinese Ministry of Health has approved new regulations governing the use and international transport of corpses in an attempt to crackdown on the illegal trade of organs. China has been criticized [BTS press release,...
A legal advisor to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday that the plan of Yushchenko's political rival and former Ukrainian prime minister Viktor Yanukovych , to directly nominate a candidate to serve as...
AP is reporting that a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that struck down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage . A federal judge struck down the ban last May, ruling that it...
US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , told reporters Tuesday that the Defense Department has been too lenient in its policies on custody of terror suspects, questioning the release of...
AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that an FBI raid on the congressional office of US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) was legal and has denied Jefferson's request that documents seized during the...
AP is reporting that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage can be placed on the ballot for voter approval,...
AP is reporting that the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the state's ban on same-sex marriage contained in a 2004 constitutional amendment . In May, a lower court judge ruled the ban unconstitutional [order,...
