Implementation of the NPT Safegaurds Agreement in the Islamic Republican of Iran and related Board resolutions, International Atomic Energy Agency , August 11, 2005 . Read the full text of the resolution here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US v. Councilman, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, August 11, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Friday that he was astonished at the unanimity of a call by the International Atomic Energy Agency for Iran to stop enrichment activities, warning Western opposition that the "very tyrannical" resolution will "cost them dearly." The IAEA resolution adopted Thursday urged Iran to re-establish full suspension of all [...]

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Mississippi Judge Marcus Gordon on Friday granted bail to former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen , who, in June, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. Gordon granted Killen's release on bond of $600,000 after determining through testimony that Killen, who is 80 and wheelchair [...]

All eight Democratic members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Friday, asking him to reconsider his decision not to release documents written by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts while he was deputy Solicitor General. In their letter , the Democrats argue that the requested documents are [...]

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has authorized the American Civil Liberties Union to make public papers it filed on August 3 challenging the Pentagon claim that images of detainee abuse must not be released because they put US troops and officials at risk. The [...]

Lawyers in Zimbabwe prepared Friday to challenge government-proposed changes to the constitution that will block white farmers from challenging land grabs in court and prohibit people deemed anti-government from traveling abroad. The Zimbabwean government last month published proposed constitutional reforms that would allow the state to assume ownership of farms immediately following the properties being [...]

NARAL Pro-Choice America said late Thursday that it is pulling a widely criticized television spot that linked US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to anti-abortion bombers, claiming its efforts to expose Roberts' record have been "misconstrued." Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), a pro-choice Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will question Roberts in [...]

Sunni Arab leaders on Friday rejected calls for a Shiite federal region to be written into the new constitution , claiming the plan would break up Iraq along strict religious and ethnic lines. Sunnis, also fearing they will be cut out of some oil revenues if the country is split into such zones, responded negatively [...]