Resolution on the grave situation of human rights in Lebanon caused by Israeli military operations, UN Human Rights Council, August 11, 2006 . Real the full text of the resolution . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The UN Security Council late Friday unanimously approved a resolution to end the current Middle East conflict , calling for Hezbollah to stop all attacks immediately and for Israel to cease “all offensive military operations.” The resolution additionally authorized the deployment of an expanded UNIFIL peacekeeping force of up to 15,000 troops mandated to monitor [...]

Abandoned and Abused: Orleans Parish Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, American Civil Liberties Union, August 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A former vice chair of Wal-Mart was sentenced on Friday to 27 months of house arrest after he pleaded guilty in January to fraud and tax charges for stealing money, merchandise and gift cards from the store and filing a false tax report. Tom Coughlin was referred to federal prosecutors by Wal-Mart lawyers after they [...]

The Italian Interior Ministry said Friday that Italian police arrested 40 people on Thursday and Friday after the ministry decided to conduct security sweeps in cities across Italy following Thursday's news that UK police arrested over 20 terror suspects in a foiled terrorist plot to bomb commercial airliners destined for the United States. The 40 [...]

A Maryland intermediate appellate court on Friday ruled that the state exceeded its state constitutional authority by enacting statutes permitting early voting. In the opinion , a judge for the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court found that the question of when Maryland residents must vote is controlled by Section 1 of the Maryland Constitution , [...]

A federal appeals court Friday upheld New York City's program of random, suspicionless baggage searches on subways as constitutional. The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the search program "satisfies the special needs exception to the Fourth Amendment's usual requirement of individualized suspicion." The New York Civil Liberties Union brought the lawsuit on [...]

The UN Human Rights Council in an emergency special session in Geneva Friday adopted by majority vote a resolution condemning Israel for violating international human rights laws in the ongoing Middle East conflict involving Lebanon. Twenty-seven of the 47 states with Council seats supported a slightly-amended final version of the measure, with 11 voting against, [...]

France has consented to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a dispute with the East African country of Djibouti over an investigation into the alleged assassination of a French judge in 1995. The case is now on the ICJ case list . In January, Djibouti asked the ICJ to take the [...]

The CIA reported in documents filed Thursday in the leak case involving former vice-presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby that it has turned over to Libby's defense team redacted summaries of originally-classified daily presidential briefings. The defense sought the summaries to support Libby's contention that he was so busy with security matters around [...]