Safford Unified School District # 1, et al. v. Redding, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [ruling that a strip search of a school student violated her Fourth Amendment rights but that school officials who conducted the search are protected...

Atlantic Sounding v. Townsend, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [holding that an injured seaman may recover punitive damages for the willful failure of his employer to pay a basic living allowance, wages that he otherwise would have earned, and...

Horne v. Flores, et al., US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 [holding that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in declining to modify an injunction requiring Arizona to provide sufficient funding for its English Language Learners...

Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more...

The Spanish Congress of Deputies voted 341-2 Thursday to limit use of the country's universal jurisdiction statute to those offenses committed by or against Spaniards, or...

Iranian authorities arrested 70 members of the Islamic Association of University Teachers after they met with opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi on Wednesday, according to a statement on Mousavi's website ....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday that the US detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are "high-profile symbols" of a trend toward finding ways to circumvent...

The US Senate began the impeachment trial process for Judge Samuel Kent Wednesday for alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors" after accepting the articles of impeachment from the US House of Representatives...

US Attorney General Eric Holder urged sentencing reform for crack cocaine Wednesday, calling for a review of disparities between sentencing guidelines for powder and crack. Addressing a symposium on federal sentencing policy hosted by the...

A Sudanese court on Wednesday convicted five men of the January 2008 murder of two US Agency for International Development (USAID) employees, sentencing four to death. Mohamed Makkawi Ibrahim Mohamed and Abdel Basit al-Hajj Hassan were found...