Movsesian, et al. v. Versicherung, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 20, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Armenian Genocide.

Amnesty International USA, et al. v. McConnell, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of New York, August 20, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on FISA.

Ten European Union (EU) nations have agreed to accept Guantanamo Bay detainees, and five more are giving the matter serious consideration, according to a Thursday Washington Post report . While Britain, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain have all either taken or publicly agreed to take detainees, administration officials said four other countries have privately [...]

Tunisia continues to commit hundreds of human rights abuses despite previous vows to cease, according to a report published Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) . The report details the arrest, torture, and detention of prisoners in the name of national security, and even the kidnapping and forced return of Tunisians living abroad. The report urges [...]

Judge Reggie Walton of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling Wednesday that severely curtails the federal government's ability to use hearsay evidence in trials against Guantanamo Bay detainees. While in normal criminal and civil cases hearsay is not accepted as evidence unless it meets specific criteria, it has frequently [...]

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Wednesday that the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) does not support treason charges against former president Pervez Musharraf , making the requisite consensus resolution extremely unlikely. Gilani told parliament that in order to try Musharraf under Article 6 of the Pakistani Constitution, there would have to be a [...]

Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced Thursday that convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is being released from prison on compassionate grounds and transferred to his native Libya. Megrahi was recently diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, and his release comes days after the Scottish High Court of the Judiciary accepted [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Wednesday that several gay rights groups may not intervene in a lawsuit challenging California's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage , Proposition 8 , on federal constitutional grounds. Judge Vaughn Walker denied requests to intervene filed by groups represented by the American [...]

Zainab Salbi : "Throughout Afghanistan's history, negotiations over women's status and rights in Afghan society have occurred largely in the context of political struggles to take power or to hold on to power. We can see from President Karzai's authorization and secretive implementation of the Shiite Personal Status Law – a measure that curtails rights [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled late Tuesday that the federal government cannot freeze the assets of an organization suspected of terrorism ties without probable cause. Judge James Carr also ruled that the government must tell the organization the basis for the asset freeze and give the [...]