Judge L. T. Senter, Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday rejected for the time being a proposed settlement reached between the State Farm insurance company...

A Jordanian appeals court has upheld a military court's death sentence for a would-be Iraqi suicide bomber who attempted to detonate a suicide bomb as part of a series of 2005 deadly hotel bombings in Amman. Sajida...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has unanimously approved a regulation that will prohibit utilities from buying electricity produced by power plants whose emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) exceed the state's standards. The rule [CPUC...

A federal judge in Nebraska ruled Friday that the state cannot enforce a 25-year old ban on corporate farming while it appeals a US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeal decision ruling the ban unconstitutional. As anticipated , Nebraska...

Prosecutor v. Charles Taylor, Joint Decision on Defense Motions for Adequate Facilities and Adequate Time for the Preparation of Mr. Taylor's Defense, Special Court for Sierra Leone, January 23, 2007 [delaying the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor until...

Report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners, European Parliament Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston South Carolina has agreed to set aside $12 million to compensate victims and relatives of victims of clergy sex abuse going back before 1980, according...

Letter to Maher Arar, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, January 26, 2007 [formally apologizing on behalf of the government of Canada for any role Canadian officials may have played in what happened to Mr. Arar, his spouse Monia Mazigh and...

Joint resolution memorializing the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to Repeal the Real ID Act of 2005, Senate of Maine, January 25, 2007. Read the full text of the resolution . Reported in...

Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos argued for an expanded European constitution in his opening statement at the “Friends of the EU Constitution” summit [press release, in Spanish; additional declaration...