Sawsaan Tabbaa et al. v. Michael Chertoff et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, November 26, 2007 [ruling that the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection did not violate the First and Fourth Amendments by...

Aguilar et al. v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security et al., US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, November 27, 2007 [upholding a district court dismissal of a lawsuit brought by...

Blackwater security contractors who were involved in the September 16 shooting of Iraqi civilians ignored a direct order from Blackwater and US State Department personnel prior to the shooting incident, according to an amended complaint [PDF text;...

Only 37 of over 5700 lawyers, rights activists, opposition figures and others arrested after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf issued a declaration of emergency rule earlier this month still remain in custody, Pakistani Interior Ministry spokesman Brig Javed...

A Vietnamese court on Tuesday reduced the prison terms of two human rights lawyers sentenced for spreading propaganda against the state. The lawyers, Nguyen Van Dai, 38, and Le Thi Cong Nhan, 28, were not released from custody, but...

Texas oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison and ordered to pay over $11 million dollars in restitution for his role in the Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal [JURIST news...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has indicated that he may accept most of the demands put forth by opposition parties in the face of his November 3 declaration of emergency rule but that he will not reinstate ousted...

US State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger III Tuesday called for the international community to "clarify" Geneva Convention rules pertaining to treatment of detained terror suspects. Speaking to reporters at an...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in New Jersey v. Delaware , 134, Orig., to revisit a century-old water boundary dispute between the two states. In 2005,...

Authorities in Malaysia may rely on the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) to halt protests, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said Tuesday after Sunday demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur...