London's High Court on Thursday ruled that the UK Foreign Office must turn over evidence "essential" to the defense of Binyam Mohamed , the last British resident still detained at Guantanamo Bay . Lawyers representing Mohamed at his US military commission trial had appeared before the High Court in July, arguing that the Foreign Office [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a Tennessee public high school in a lawsuit brought by three students who claimed the school's ban on wearing the Confederate flag violated their First Amendment, Equal Protection, and Due Process rights under the US [...]

The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) announced on Wednesday that Iraq has signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) . Only a few of the world's major nations are not CTBT signatories. The US signed the CTBT in 1996, but has cited national security concerns as justification for withholding ratification, and boycotted [...]

A US district court judge ruled Wednesday that US Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) cannot transfer his corruption trial to Alaska from Washington, DC. Rejecting Stevens' argument that he needed to be in Alaska to campaign for re-election, US District Judge Emmet Sullivan said that the offense alleged in the indictment occurred in Washington and any [...]

The Chicago Urban League (CUL) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit insisting that Illinois' current school funding scheme be declared unconstitutional in violation of the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003 . CUL challenges the state's method for raising and distributing education funds to local school districts, which it claims results in "constitutionally inadequate educational opportunities [...]

Leslie Harris : "The Department of Justice has properly agreed to a request from Senators Specter and Leahy that it delay release of new Attorney General Guidelines that govern FBI criminal and intelligence investigations. The new Guidelines would reportedly weaken the standards in existing Guidelines for use of some intrusive investigative techniques. Currently, the FBI [...]

Karynn Fish : "Oregon's domestic partnership law has been in effect since February 1, when a district court judge lifted a temporary restraining order that had delayed its implementation. JURIST isn't clear on this point. Last week's ruling by the 9th Circuit means that there will be no referendum on the law (a remedy sought [...]

Officials for Iraq's Human Rights Ministry have said that they plan to prosecute those suspected of torturing inmates of the country's prison system, according to a Wednesday report . The country signed on to the UN's Convention Against Torture on Sunday, but has not yet explicitly prohibited the practice. Prosecutors say they will find a [...]

Indonesian Attorney General Hendarman Supandji announced Wednesday that the men convicted of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will not be executed until after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which the death penalty is not implemented. Supandji said that he could not approve the executions because he has not yet received certification from the [...]

Iran has executed a man for a stabbing he committed while still a minor, according Wednesday reports from local media. The execution is said to violate the terms of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child , to which Iran is a signatory, but officials for the country argue that it and similar [...]