Ilham Nassir Ibrahim, et al., v. Titan Corporation, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, November 6, 2007 [denying a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against CACI International for alleged involvement in the torture of Iraqi prisoners...

John and Claire Tuepker v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, November 6, 2007 [overturning a district court ruling and finding that a State Farm insurance policy anti-concurrent causation clause barring recovery...

Mark Dean Schwab v. State of Florida, Supreme Court of Florida, November 7, 2007 [denying a stay of execution for death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab despite a pending review of the constitutionality of lethal injection by the US Supreme...

The trial of Serb nationalist leader and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj began Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The prosecution in its opening statement told the...

Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, UN General Assembly, August 24, 2007 [finding that increasing institutionalization of racist political ideologies and violent expressions of racism are seriously threatening democracy...

The Russian State Duma voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of a measure that would suspend the nation's responsibilities under the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty . The Russian government first threatened to temporarily withdraw from...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld language used in homeowner insurance policies by State Farm Fire and Casualty, overturning a district court ruling that the policy language was ambiguous and consequently...

The US Department of Justice filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Tuesday against the dismissal of immigration fraud charges against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles [JURIST news archive;...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit against CACI International , an American military contractor being sued over its alleged involvement in the torture...

Turkish Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said Tuesday that a new bill to reform a controversial law that criminalizes insults to Turkish identity will go before the Turkish parliament soon. He did not say...