US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Friday defended the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in the face of a resolution by the Icelandic parliament calling...
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Rice rejects Iceland call to close Guantanamo prison
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Federal court upholds key Voting Rights Act provision
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China human rights lawyers denied license renewals
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Connecticut AG files lawsuit against drug company for alleged price inflation
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Pentagon files new charges against 3 Guantanamo detainees
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Texas Vioxx appeal ruling [TX CA]
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Brazil high court upholds stem cell research law
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Japan party introduces bill to compensate Korean, Taiwanese war criminals
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Anti-Guantanamo protesters convicted for illegal Supreme Court demonstration
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Germany justice minister defends Volkswagen anti-takeover law
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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that a major provision in the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) is constitutional. The court's decision in...
The Beijing Judicial Bureau has refused to renew the licenses of a number of Chinese human rights lawyers before a Saturday deadline, a China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group official said Friday. The bureau originally...
Connecticut filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson Corp. in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Thursday, accusing the company of violating federal anti-racketeering laws by inflating drug prices for state-funded health...
US Department of Defense prosecutors brought new charges against three detainees being held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday. Jabran al-Qathani, Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi, and Algerian Sufyian Barhoumi are...
Merck v. Ernst, Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals, May 29, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion...
The Supreme Court of Brazil Thursday ruled 6-5 that a 2005 law allowing embryonic stem cell research is constitutional, rejecting a challenge by the country's attorney general that it infringed on the...
An opposition party in Japan has introduced a bill in Japan's House of Representatives that would provide compensation for Korean and Taiwanese nationals convicted of war crimes committed while working for...
A Washington DC Superior Court found 34 members of anti-war activism group Witness Against Torture guilty Thursday on misdemeanor charges of illegal protesting. Police arrested 71 group members at a protest in front of the...
German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries Thursday deflected the European Commission's criticism of proposed legislation that would preserve the power of the German state of Lower Saxony to block major business decisions...
