Proposition 2 marriage amendment to the Texas Constitution, adopted by the Texas Legislature by Senate approval on May 21, 2005, and approved by Texas voters November 8, 2005. Read the full text of Proposition 2 here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Defense Directive 3115.09, US Department of Defense, November 8, 2005.. Read the full text of the directive here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Texas media are reporting that by a wide margin state voters have approved Proposition 2 , a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The ban was strongly supported by Texas Republican governor Rick Perry; some opponents actually rejected the ban as not being explicit enough against gays. With 472,553 votes counted, 74 percent favored the [...]

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was denied release from jail in Chile Tuesday pending a hearing on his extradition to face 21 Peruvian charges of corruption and human rights abuses during his presidency. Peru has 60 days to petition for Fujimori's extradition and current Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has sent a high-level delegation to Chile [...]

The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in Georgia v. Randolph on whether police may search a home when one resident gives permission but the other does not. The case involves an estranged Georgia couple in which the wife had returned to the home to collect her belongings. The wife granted permission for the [...]

A court in Mannheim has begun trial proceedings against neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel , a German citizen charged in connection with denying the Holocaust in publications and a website . Holocaust denial constitutes a crime under Section 130 (3) of the German Federal Criminal Code, which provides:Whoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or [...]

The office of Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announced Tuesday that it is investigating the possibility of legal action against the companies that designed and constructed the levee systems that led to the flooding of large portions of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . Foti's office wants to determine whether errors in [...]

In meetings with US senators on Tuesday, US Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito said that the Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing women the right to an abortion was long-standing precedent and therefore entitled to respect. Speaking to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) he did not, however, commit to upholding the decision in the [...]

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will propose regulations for remodeling or renovating a home with lead-based paint by the end of the year. A federal law had been passed in 1992 that requires contractors to disseminate information to homeowners before renovating certain properties, but the EPA has [...]

Italian state TV RAI Tuesday aired a documentary accusing the United States of using the chemical white phosphorus against both insurgents and civilians during a military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah last year. Reports that US forces fired white phosphorous rounds into the city, causing severe burns, were circulated at the time , [...]