A judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday granted habeas to Guantanamo detainee Mohammed El Gharani and directed his release. El Gharani, a Chadian citizen born...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Puckett v. United States , the Court heard arguments on whether a defendant's claim, not...

A judge in the Penal Chamber of the National Court of Spain in Madrid on Tuesday ordered a trial for the men allegedly responsible for the killings of six...

The convening authority of military commissions Susan Crawford has said that torture tactics were used in the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani , a suspect held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...

Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered that copies of the documents related to the investigation into the late 2006 firings of nine...

Common Cause/Georgia, et al., v. NAACP, Eugene Taylor, and Bertha Barrett Young, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, January 14, 2009 . Read the full...

Herring v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2009 [ruling that evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest does not have to be suppressed when the sole premise for the arrest was information negligently...

Mohammed El Gharani v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 14, 2009 [ruling that the government had failed to establish by a preponderance of evidence that Guantanamo detainee Mohammed El Gharani was...

The US Supreme Court decided two cases Wednesday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Herring v. United States that evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest...

The Bush administration engaged in numerous abuses , and the incoming Obama administration should launch a criminal investigation to find out whether any laws were violated, according to a report released Tuesday by US House Judiciary...