Iraqi leaders confirmed Tuesday that key unresolved issues in drafting the Iraqi constitution lead to Monday's one-week deadline extension . According to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, the primary issues of contention are distribution...
In a 1985 memo to White House counsel Fred Fielding released Monday, US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts stated that the Court's ruling in Wallace v. Jaffree , striking down an Alabama law mandating a one-minute...
The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York has failed to turn over videotapes showing interviews of aliens held on immigration charges during the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US Department of Justice...
Former commander of the military wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit was sworn in as a vice-president of Sudan and president of the southern autonomous government Thursday....
The US First Circuit Court of Appeals held Thursday that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) , which updated the Wiretap Act to include electronic communications, should be broadly interpreted to allow an e-mail provider alleged...
As anticipated Thursday in JURIST's Paper Chase, the National Archives has released a set of memos written by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts while he was a Justice Department aide in 1981. In...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Tuesday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan to deport Islamic extremists is likely to result in violations of international human rights law. While such laws prohibit...
Jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has ended his eight-week hunger strike in response to concerns of family and friends for his deteriorating health, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday. Ganji has been imprisoned since...
Palestinian Chief Justice Zuhair Sourani has said he is retracting his Saturday resignation in reaction to promises made by President Mahmoud Abbas to increase protection of Palestinian courts and judges. Lawyers and judges shut down the Palestinian...
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri , an Illinois student from Qatar, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina Monday accusing his military jailers of violating his human rights [Human Rights Watch...
