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Lawmakers in the Italian Senate have started weighing proposals for legislation that would legalize civil unions in the country. The process in the Senate's Justice Committee comes a month after Senate leaders requested that a...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld an Indiana law requiring voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot. In its ruling, the court upheld a lower...

Detainees Positive Responses, US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), September 2004, released in response to a FOIA request by the American Civil Liberties Union, January 2, 2007 [internal report of FBI agents' observations of instances of military personnel and contractors...

US FBI agents reported numerous instances of military personnel and contractors using harsh interrogation practices at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay , including wrapping a detainee's head in duct tape and a female guard wiping...

JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that one of the best and most enduring legacies of the late President Gerald Ford has been John Paul Stevens, his one Supreme Court justice whom he nominated...

Bulgaria has urged a speedy appeal in the retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children . The medics were convicted and sentenced ...

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday condemned proposed Italian legislation that would recognize civil unions for unmarried couples, including same-sex couples. The Pope, speaking in a Christmas address to the Rome clergy, said...

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed into law Thursday legislation providing legal recognition to same-sex civil unions . The New Jersey Legislature passed the civil unions bill last week in response to an October New...

US District Judge David Lawson of the Eastern District of Michigan has ruled that the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University can delay until July 1, 2007 implementing Proposal 2 ,...

The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill Thursday allowing same-sex civil unions in response to a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in October that said the...