Draft report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, European Parliament, November 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Canadian Parliament will revisit the issue of same-sex marriage next week, with debate on a federal law permitting same-sex marriage scheduled to begin in the House of Commons Wednesday. The ruling Conservative Party in June promised to reconsider the law , which was passed in 2005 under the leadership of former Liberal Prime Minister [...]

US District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled in Washington, DC, Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must reinstate certain housing payments for victims of Hurricane Katrina . Leon granted the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction against the payments stoppage, maintaining that FEMA had failed to provide evacuees with adequate explanations for their [...]

Gary Buseck : "Mitt Romney is about to leave the Massachusetts governorship and enter a presidential primary campaign built almost exclusively around his opposition to the now recognized right of liberty and equality under the Massachusetts constitution for two loving people to marry. While he's certainly entitled to his angst over the legislature's vote to [...]

Jackson Chin : "Plaintiffs counsel have challenged local ordinances in Hazleton, PA based on their unconstitutional and ambitious sweep in attempting to regulate immigrant residents. Misguided at best, these laws are preempted by and violate a number of federal laws. The passage and defense of such local anti-immigrant laws are part of an organized effort [...]

The US government agreed to pay $2 million Wednesday in a settlement agreement with Brandon Mayfield, the attorney arrested and detained for two weeks in May 2004 after the FBI mistakenly established that his fingerprints matched those found on a bag containing detonators used in the 2004 Madrid terrorist train bombings . Mayfield, a Muslim [...]

Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) has settled fraud allegations under the False Claims Act , the US Justice Department said Wednesday, and has agreed to pay the US $8 million for allegedly overcharging the Army for logistical support it provided between 1999 and 2000. The DOJ alleged that KBR double-billed the military and [...]

Significant racial and ethnic discrimination and violence persist in European Union countries, according to a report released by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) Tuesday. According to the report, victimized groups include asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented migrants, Roma gypsies , Jews and Muslims. Despite identification of the problem, the EUMC detailed the [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour told the UN Human Rights Council Wednesday in the aftermath of a controversial trip to the Middle East that "the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is grave and worsening, within a general climate of impunity." She called on Israel to properly investigate 19 Palestinian [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Massachusetts v. EPA , 05-1120, a case where 12 states and several environmental groups are challenging an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determination that it does not have the authority under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to regulate the emission of "greenhouse gases," such as carbon dioxide, [...]