Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Adel Hassan Hamad filed suit in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington Wednesday against the US government and more than a dozen...

18th Amendment Bill of the Pakistan Constitution, Pakistan National Assembly, April 8, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available...

A group of citizens from Kinston, North Carolina, on Wednesday filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia claiming that Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA)...

Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadzic: Decision on Motion to Stay, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, April 8, 2010 .Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary...

The Supreme Court of the Philippines ruled Thursday that a prominent gay rights organization may field candidates in the upcoming national elections as an accredited political party. The decision invalidates an order issued...

Pakistan's National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a constitutional amendment that would curtail the powers of the president. The 18th Amendment Bill would reverse the expansion of presidential powers under former military leader Pervez Musharraf...

Former Kyrgyz foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva announced Thursday that she will lead an interim government in Kyrgyzstan after violent protests Wednesday apparently ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his administration. Otunbayeva, leader of the...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that five additional states will join in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . The...

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed the so-called New START treaty , pledging to reduce their countries' nuclear warheads by about 30 percent. Under the terms of the...

The Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared Wednesday that Kenya's government is attempting to secure the release of Kenyan native Mohammed Abdumalik, who is currently detained at Guantanamo Bay . The news was revealed in...