The US Senate early Saturday morning unanimously ratified the US-UK Extradition Treaty that was negotiated in 2003 and statutorily incorporated into UK law ...

Chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Carla Del Ponte challenged the European Union Friday to fund the war crimes court if UN monies runs dry before the...

The US House of Representatives passed a property rights bill Friday night that its proponents say will provide easier access to federal courts for landowners seeking to challenge governmental actions under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment....

The US Senate passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 Friday by a vote of 80-19 , authorizing the construction of a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexico border . President...

Lawyers from several of the top US wireless telephone providers testified Friday at a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee that they would support legislation...

The US Congress sent its final version of the military commissions bill to President Bush late Friday after the House voted 250-170 to approve the Senate's version of the legislation . The House...

Military Commissions Act of 2006 , passed by the US Senate September 28, 2006 and by the US House of Representatives September 29, 2006. Read the full text of the legislation . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Sandra Cote-Whitacre et al. v. Department of Public Health et al., Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County Superior Court, September 29, 2006 [ruling that two women from Rhode Island may marry in Massachusetts despite the Commonwealth's 1913 statute forbidding the marriage...

The major political parties in Serbia have reached an agreement on the text of a draft constitution after weeks of negotiations, Local Government and Administration Minister Zoran Loncar said Friday. Although parliament is scheduled to consider...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a gathering of legal scholars Friday that the Constitution "provides the courts with relatively few tools" to review presidential decisions about the military and foreign policy in wartime...