League of Women Voters of Florida et al. v. Sue M. Cobb, United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Judge Patricia Seitz, August 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Nova Health Systems et al. v. W.A. Drew Edmundson, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, August 25, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

An Iranian court has sentenced the managing editor of the monthly Aftab, Isa Saharkhiz , to four years in jail and barred him from working in the press for five years after he was convicted of publishing articles against the constitution and offending the state media, according to ISNA , the Iranian student news agency. [...]

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday formally charged Thomas Lubanga , founder of the militant Union of Patriotic Congolese , accusing him of enlisting child soldiers in the violence-plagued Ituri district . Lubanga is the first war crimes suspect to be charged at the ICC since it opened in 2002. Though Human [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that he will establish two inquiry committees to investigate Israel's conduct during the latest crisis in the Middle East , one to examine "the functioning of the Government, its proceedings and decision making, and anything else it sees fit to examine," and an internal military investigation to "conduct [...]

US District Judge Patricia Seitz of the Southern District of Florida on Monday threw out Florida's Third-Party Registration Law , which had imposed steeply scaled fines on organizations and volunteers who failed to submit voter applications within specified time periods. Seitz ruled that the law "unconstitutionally discriminates in favor of political parties by excluding them [...]

Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Monday rejected most challenges to last month's disputed presidential election , dismissing the bulk of fraud allegations brought by leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . Lopez Obrador filed over 200 separate complaints challenging the preliminary vote count which conservative candidate Felipe Calderon won by just 0.6 percent of the [...]

An Australian court on Monday ordered terror suspect Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas to stay within the city of Melbourne and imposed an evening curfew in the first use of controversial "control orders" authorized under anti-terror legislation enacted late last year. Police requested the measures Sunday as the government still believes Thomas to be a [...]

An increase in Sudanese troops in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan could lead to a new human rights crisis there, Amnesty International warned Monday as the UN Security Council prepared to consider a proposal to deploy 20,000 UN troops to the area. Sudan denies any wrongdoing in Darfur and has proposed to the Council [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has refused to grant an injunction to halt a new Oklahoma law that requires parental notification at least 48 hours in advance of an abortion for a minor while Nova Health Systems , the parent group of Tulsa's Reproductive Services clinic , challenges the law in [...]